Table of Contents
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 1: Retail sales trends, 2013-14
- BRC data for April
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- Figure 2: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2012-14
- John Lewis
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- Figure 3: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2013-14
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 4: The income squeeze: Wages growth vs inflation, 2008-13
- Inflation
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- Figure 5: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2013-14
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Food Retailing
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- Sector sales hit by late Easter and lower inflation
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- Figure 6: Annual % change in grocers sector sales versus annual % change in consumer prices in food & non-alcoholic beverages, January 2013-March 2014
- Supermarkets’ share eroding slowly
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- Figure 7: Grocers sector sales: Distribution by channel, 2009-14
- How big are the discounters?
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- Figure 8: Retailers used for majority of grocery shopping, in-store and online, December 2013
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- Figure 9: Aldi and Lidl UK: Share of grocers sector sales, 2012 and 2013
- Recent full-year results
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- Figure 10: Major grocers: like-for-like sales growth, 2013/14
Headlines for the Month
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- Co-ops
- Grocers
- Specialist food shops
- Clothing retailing
- Mixed goods retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- Electrical retailing
- Home shopping
- Books and stationery retailing
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Co-ops
- Co-op
- Convenience stores
- Nisa to trial new franchise strategy
- Grocers
- Asda begins same day click and collect
- Grocery market growth hits 11 year low
- Morrisons
- UK: Sainsbury’s sales rise 2.8%
- Tesco
- Waitrose
- Specialist food shops
- Greggs sales up 4% in Q1
- Thorntons sales fall 7.6% in Q3
- Off-licences
- Conviviality to acquire rival
- Oddbins plans rapid expansion under new ownership
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- Bershka looks to offload flagship
- Blue Inc chairman stands down
- Bonmarché sales up 10.4%
- Burberry revenue up 19%
- Fat Face confirms London listing
- French Connection sales up 11%
- Lord Wolfson giving away his £4m bonus
- Whistles to launch debut menswear collection
- Footwear retailing
- Kurt Geiger completes management buyout
- Shoe Zone to float within the next month
- Mixed goods retailing
- B&M Bargains to refinance £585m of loans
- Poundland sales up 13.3%
- Multi-sector retailing
- Argos to launch new ‘digital’ store in Manchester
- Home Retail sales climb 3% to £5.66bn
- M&S Q4 results
- Department stores
- Debenhams sales up 1.5%
- House of Fraser
- John Lewis to launch first range of smart TVs
- Selfridges Birmingham to be redeveloped
- DIY retailing
- Travis Perkins sales up 15.6% in Q1
- Electrical retailing
- BrightHouse chairman to step down
- Carphone Warehouse sales increase 2.3% in the fourth quarter
- Homewares retailing
- Fast Retailing considering Cath Kidston bid
- Home shopping
- Ao.com announces 40% growth in sales
- Amazon and Twitter launch digital shopping partnership
- Barratts re-launches with new website
- Marks and Spencer targeting improved online profitability
- N Brown reports operating profits up 4.7%
- Sit-Up falls into administration
- Books and stationery retailing
- WHSmith
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- JD Sports reports 5.7% rise in sales
- Sports Direct
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- Bids for Kiddicare expected by the end of April
- Mothercare Q4 sales dip
- Economy
- UK: Retail sales fall in March
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