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European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2013-14
- Figure 3: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2013-14
- Inflation
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- Figure 4: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2013-14
- Figure 5: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2013-14
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Department Stores
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Home Shopping
- Miscellaneous Specialist Retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Bakers
- UK: Greggs sales grow 3.1% in first half
- Convenience Stores
- UK: Nisa relaunches own-brand range
- Grocers
- Belgium: Delhaize
- Czech Republic: Ahold receives preliminary approval to acquire SPAR's Czech business
- Italy: Carrefour acquires Billa supermarkets in Italy
- France: Carrefour to acquire Dia France
- Romania: Auchan to open 12 new Romanian stores
- Spain: Dia acquires El Arbol
- Spain: El Corte Inglés launches click-and-collect
- Spain: Lidl launch collaboration with Custo
- UK: Aldi to double UK store numbers
- UK: Asda announces ‘radical’ restructuring process
- UK: Iceland sales grow 2.7%
- UK: Lidl to open 20 new UK stores in the next nine months
- UK: Morrisons
- UK: Netto to return to the UK
- UK: Ocado revenues rise 20.7% in the first half
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- UK: Tesco
- UK: Waitrose to launch first in-station store
- UK: Tesco and Morrisons suffer market share loss
- Other food specialists
- UK: Whole Foods sales rise but losses widen
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine sales rise 1.4%
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- Europe: Primark sales soar 22% in Q3
- Germany: Gerry Weber sales rise 2.2% in the first half
- Germany: s.Oliver sales jump 5.3%
- Netherlands: C&A to open new flagship in Amsterdam
- Netherlands: CoolCat sales grow 1.5%
- Netherlands: Hunkemöller sales grow 7.9%
- Netherlands: FNG Group sales rise 60%
- Spain: Inditex sales climb 4% Q1
- Sweden: H&M
- Sweden: SuperGroup acquires Smac Group
- UK: Blue Inc opts out of IPO
- UK: Bonmarché sales jump 11.9%
- UK: Burberry defends CEO bonus
- UK: Fat Face sales grow 12%
- UK: Jane Norman enters administration once again
- UK: Lakeland Leather enters administration
- UK: La Senza enters administration
- UK: Michael Kors to open Regent Street flagship
- UK: Mulberry like-for-like retail sales slide 3%
- UK: Phase Eight
- UK: SuperGroup sales grow 19.6%
- UK: Ted Baker sales rise 17.9% in Q1
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Shoe Zone sales tumble 16.1% in first half
- Mixed Goods Retailing
- Netherlands: HEMA
- UK: 99p Stores launch new Plus format
- UK: Argos
- UK: B&M Bargains valued at £2.7bn
- UK: Home Retail reports an ‘encouraging start to the year’
- UK: Poundland sales rocket 18% in Q1
- UK: Poundworld sales grow 18%
- Multi-Sector Retailing
- UK: Marks and Spencer
- Department Stores
- Germany: Karstadt CEO leaves after six months
- UK: Debenhams
- UK: House of Fraser Q1 2014 like-for-like sales up 2%
- UK: John Lewis brings Italian flavour to Oxford Street
- DIY retailing
- Germany: Hornbach first-quarter consolidated sales up 16%
- UK: Homebase handing over another of its stores to The Range
- UK: Topps Tiles
- Electrical retailing
- France: Darty like-for-likes rise 1.7%
- Netherlands: Saturn brand to be axed in the Netherlands
- UK: Brighthouse sales grow 12.2%
- UK: Carphone Warehouse full-year total sales down
- UK: Comet staff win multi-million pound settlement
- UK: Dixons full-year sales and profit up
- UK: Maplin
- Music and Video Goods Retailing
- UK: HMV
- UK: Rough Trade to open first new UK store in seven years
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright sales fall 2.2%
- Furniture retailing
- UK: DFS sales jump 5.9% in Q3
- UK: Dunelm sales jump 7.8%
- UK: The Range to open its 89th store
- Home Shopping
- Belgium: Colruyt Group acquires 50% of ZEB
- Italy: Prezzofelice.it enters liquidation
- UK: Amazon
- UK: ASOS suffers warehouse fire
- UK: Boohoo.com sales soar 63%
- UK: M & M Direct sold for £140m
- UK: MySale suffers technical hitch on AIM debut
- UK: N Brown sales rise 2.6% in Q1
- UK: Net-A-Porter to unveil 'Net-A-Sporter'
- UK: QVC launches new channel
- UK: Shop Direct hires first fashion director
- Health & Beauty retailing
- Netherlands: Holland & Barrett plans further European expansion
- UK: Superdrug sales drop 1%
- UK: The Fragrance Shop sales rise 11.2%
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: The Works like-for-like sales grow 7%
- UK: WH Smith like-for-like sales fall 2% in Q3
- Sports and Leisure Goods Retailing
- UK: JD Sports
- UK: Sports Direct
- Miscellaneous Specialist Retailing
- Germany: Sunglass Hut enters Germany
- Spain: Spanish postal service debuts collection lockers
- UK: Bathstore sold in a management buyout
- UK: Doddle, a new click and collect business, announced
- UK: Halfords sales accelerate 7.9% in Q1
- UK: Hobbycraft's new small store format
- UK: Ladbrokes unveils new store concept
- UK: Mamas & Papas
- UK: Mothercare
- UK: Pets at Home like-for-like sales rise 2.4%
- Economy
- UK: Footfall declines 0.2% in May
- UK: Retail sales grow 3.9% in May
- UK: Retail sales rise 2% in May
- UK: Shop prices hit record low
E-Commerce – Europe
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- Zalando
- What we think
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 6: Zalando: Group financial performance, 2010-13
- Retail offering
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