Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- Trust
- Tesco
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- Figure 1: “A brand I trust” – the big 4, 2009-2013
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- Figure 2: “A brand I trust” – other leaders, 2009-2013
- Marketing
- Aldi and Lidl
- Where next?
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 3: Retail sales trends, 2013-14
- BRC data for July
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- Figure 4: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2013-2014
- John Lewis
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- Figure 5: John Lewis: Year-on-Year Growth, 2013-14
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 6: The income squeeze: Wages growth vs inflation, 2009-2013
- Inflation
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- Figure 7: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2013-14
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – DIY and Furniture Retailing
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- Executive summary
- Consumer spending improves
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- Figure 8: Consumer spending on core DIY and furniture categories (incl VAT), 2009-13
- Specialists’ sales recover
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- Figure 9: DIY and hardware specialists’ sales: annual % change, January 2013 - July 2014
- Figure 10: Furniture and lighting specialists’ sales: annual % change, January 2013 - July 2014
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- Figure 11: Retail sales (incl VAT), 2012-14
- Top specialist retailers’ recent results
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- Figure 12: Kingfisher: Recent results
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- Figure 13: Homebase: Recent results
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- Figure 14: Other major DIY and furniture retailers: recent results
Headlines for the Month
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- Co-ops
- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Music, film and video games retailing
News Analysis – Food
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- Co-ops
- Co-op
- Convenience Stores
- McColl’s sales grow 4.3% in Q3
- Nisa CEO leaves business
- One Stop installs beacon technology in stores
- Grocers
- Aldi removes confectionery from checkout areas
- Asda
- Iceland Foods completes refinancing deal
- Lidl
- Morrisons
- Ocado to trial click-and-collect
- Sainsbury’s
- Tesco
- Waitrose opens railway station outlet
- Other food specialists
- Thorntons profits grow 60.4%
- Economy
- Asda and Waitrose gain market share
- Retail sales grow 2.7% in August
- Retail sales fall 0.3% in July
- Retail sales grow 2.6% in July
- Shop prices continue to fall in August
News Analysis – Non-Food
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- Clothing retailing
- Abercrombie & Fitch to open first kidswear store
- Barbour appoints new global e-commerce chief
- Element to open its first UK standalone store
- French Connection opens pop-up convenience store
- H&M's mega fashion 2014 Xmas campaign
- Lands’ End debuts House of Fraser
- All La Senza stores to close
- Lindex to open its first UK store
- Lipsy launches sports line
- New Look sales grow 8.1% in Q1
- Stradivarius opens its doors in the UK
- SuperGroup like-for-like sales fall 3.7% in Q1
- Vivienne Westwood sales drop 2%
- Footwear retailing
- Dr Martens appoints new CEO
- Department Stores
- House of Fraser
- John Lewis
- Menarys enters CVA with creditors
- Selfridges
- DIY retailing
- Homebase shareholder vetoes sell off
- Kingfisher sales grow 0.9% in the first half of the year
- Lords of Notting Hill adds cookshop to its portfolio
- Screwfix to open 50 new stores in 2015
- Wickes hires Fit Flop ecommerce boss
- Garden products retailing
- Terra Firma considering Wyevale sale
- Books and stationary retailing
- WH Smith announce result ‘in-line with market expectations’
- The Works owners consider sale
- Electrical retailing
- Brighthouse
- Dixons Carphone announce results of a ‘good start’
- Maplin
- Phones 4u
- Music, film and video games retailing
- Game Digital posts solid sales
- Furniture retailing
- Furniture Village secures £6m investment
- Ikea scales back new store plans
- Home Shopping
- Achica attracts hedgefund investor
- Amazon
- Asos warehouse fire continues to cause disruptions
- Boden sales rise 5%
- JD Williams to launch TV campaign
- Kiddicare losses widen
- My-Wardrobe future in doubt
- Net-a-Porter sales grow 23%
- Shop Direct to launch transactional apps
- Zalando
- Health & Beauty retailing
- Marc Jacobs to open ‘tweet shop’
- Savers sales grow 15%
- Sports and Leisure Goods Retailing
- Sports Direct sales grow 12.2% in Q1
- Toys and Games Retailing
- Toys R Us sales fall 7%
- Multi-sector retailing
- Laura Ashley sales and profits rise in the first half of the year
- Marks and Spencer
- Poundland
- TK Maxx plans 18 store expansion
- Wilko sales dip 4.4%
- 99p Stores
- Shopping destinations
- Europe’s first Asian shopping centre to open in London
- Heathrow launches first airport based personal shopping lounge
- Land Securities announces two new click-and-collect hubs
- Miscellaneous Specialist Retailing
- Mamas & Papas hire former Aurora Fashions chairman
- Groupon launches new website
- Miscellaneous
- The Elliot Review ‘concerned’ over retailers procurement policies
- Royal Mail to trial Sunday deliveries this weekend
- Economy
- Asda and Waitrose gain market share
- Retail sales grow 2.7% in August
- Retail sales fall 0.3% in July
- Retail sales grow 2.6% in July
- Shop prices continue to fall in August
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