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Analyst Comment – Should Pureplays Open Stores?
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- What we’ve seen
- Is there scope for stores?
- So what can we expect from Amazon?
European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 1: Major European economies: Year on year retail sales value growth, 2013-14
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- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year on year retail sales volume growth, 2013-14
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2013-14
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2013-14
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Department stores
- Electrical retailing
- Furniture retailing
- Home shopping
- Music, game and video retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Grocers
- Austria: Lidl invests in modernising Austrian stores
- Belgium: Colruyt Group
- Belgium: Delhaize announces partnership with Coopernic
- Denmark: Metro Cash and Carry to exit Denmark
- France: Auchan announces purchasing agreement with Système U
- France: E.Leclerc to invest €1.2bn to counteract financial crisis
- France: Intermarché and Casino Group partner to purchase brands
- Germany: Edeka to buy Kaiser’s Tengelmann stores
- Germany: FrischeParadies to launch online
- Ireland: Spar ups Irish expansion
- Italy: Carrefour opens its first ‘gourmet’ market store in Italy
- Netherlands: Lidl commences online operations in the Netherlands
- Norway: Coop acquires ICA’s Norwegian business
- Spain: Eroski
- UK: Aldi
- UK: Booths to launch nationwide delivery
- UK: Costcutter acquires 20% stake in Simply Fresh
- UK: Morrisons
- UK: Sainsbury's
- UK: Sports Direct to invest £43m into Tesco
- UK: Tesco
- UK: Waitrose has launched dedicated pet website
- Other food specialists
- UK: Greggs like-for-like sales grow 5.4% in Q3
- UK: Holland & Barrett
- UK: Thorntons profits grow 60.4%
- UK: Whittard of Chelsea profits increase 43%
News Analysis – Non-Food
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- Clothing retailing
- Belgium: Kipling unveils new loyalty scheme
- Denmark: Bestseller’s Mamalicious to introduce childrenswear
- Europe: Esprit sales fall but returns to profitability
- Finland: Marks and Spencer to launch in Scandinavia
- Germany: French Connection to open company-owned German store
- Ireland: Penneys to launch beauty bar
- Spain: El Corte Inglés CEO dies
- Spain: Inditex sales grow but profits slip in the first half of the year
- Sweden: H&M sales grow 21% in Q3
- UK: Bonmarché launches menswear trial
- UK: Calzedonia ventures out from London
- UK: Edinburgh Woollen Mill acquires Internaçionale assets
- UK: Forever 21 makes £18.4m loss in the UK
- UK: French Connection
- UK: Jack Wills plans Asian expansion
- UK: Moss Bros like-for-like sales up 6.4%
- UK: Mothercare to inject £100m into new store designs and brands
- UK: N Brown sales down 0.6%
- UK: New Look appoints new non-executive chairman
- UK: Phase Eight put up for sale
- UK: River Island invests in multichannel offering
- UK: Ted Baker profits increase 24.2%
- UK: Topman to launch Google+ Hangouts
- UK: Topshop and ShangPin join for mobile marketing initiative
- UK: Zara’s UK profits fall by 34.5%
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Clarks to open first dedicated men’s store
- UK: Jimmy Choo to launch IPO in October
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: 99p Stores launch 99p a week broadband internet service
- UK: Argos
- UK: Home Retail announce ‘good’ first half results
- UK: Marks and Spencer launches ‘M&S Baby’ format
- UK: Next sales jump 10.3% in the first six months of 2014
- UK: Next Q3 sales hit by warm weather
- UK: Oliver Bonas profits decline 14%
- UK: WorldStores acquires Kiddicare
- Department stores
- Germany: Karstadt announce rehabilitation plans
- Netherlands: Hema makes a loss of €30.1m
- UK: Beales sales drop in Q3 as stores close
- UK: Debenhams launches Mothercare and Monsoon in store
- UK: House of Fraser
- UK: John Lewis
- UK: Selfridges forecasts 20% sales lift from Birmingham menswear
- Electrical retailing
- Germany: Media-Markt to open first click-and-collect drive through service
- UK: Jessops returns to profit
- Furniture retailing
- Belgium: Ikea to invest €15m in Belgian store
- Europe: Kingfisher sales grow 0.9% in the first half of the year
- Netherlands: DFS to launch its first international store
- UK: Dreams reports EBITDA loss of £3.7m
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm
- UK: Lakeland profits halve to £3m following heavy investment
- UK: Topps Tiles reports pre-tax profit rises of 30%
- Home shopping
- France: L’Oréal plans to launch 200 branded websites
- Germany: Amazon
- Germany: Ao World to debut in Germany
- Europe: Rocket Internet to launch IPO
- Germany: Zalando launches on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- UK: ASOS sales grow 27%
- UK: Boohoo.com sales jump 31% in the first half of the year
- UK: Burberry and Twitter test ‘buy’ button
- UK: Jaeger introduces new ecommerce strategy
- UK: John Lewis creates new role of online product director
- UK: Land Securities announces two new click-and-collect hubs
- UK: Made.com sales increase 68%
- UK: MySale revenues grow 23.3%
- UK: Ocado
- UK: Shop Direct announces new website Very Exclusive
- UK: Smiggle to launch UK standalone transactional website
- Health & beauty retailing
- UK: Co-operative Group completes Pharmacy sale
- UK: Lloydspharmacy sales up
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Decathlon wants to open small stores and click-and-collect points
- UK: Halfords to re-launch Cycle Republic stores in London
- UK: JD Sports sales grow 27% in the first half
- UK: Sports Direct
- Music, game and video retailing
- France: Darty sales grow 5.9% in Q1
- Spain: Gamestop to exit the Spanish market
- UK: HMV makes £16.7m operating profit
- UK: Tesco to sell Blinkbox
- Mobile phone retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone to take on 800 Phones 4u staff
- UK: Phones 4u
- UK: Vodafone acquires 140 Phones 4u stores
- Toy retailing
- UK: The Toy Store signs lease for Oxford Street shop
- Card retailing
- UK: Card Factory sales jump 8.9% in the first half of the year
- Economy
- UK: Retail price deflation increases to 1.8%
- UK: Retail sales grow 3.7% year-on-year in August
H&M Hennes & Mauritz
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- What we think
- Guest-designer collaborations enhance fashion credentials
- Net new 375 stores planned for 2014
- Online shop expansion
- Broadening product range
- Taking on board ethical issues
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 5: H&M Hennes & Mauritz: Percentage share of net sales by region, 2011/12-2012/13
- Figure 6: H&M Hennes & Mauritz: Group financial performance, 2008/9-2012/13
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- Figure 7: H&M Hennes & Mauritz: Outlet data, 2008/9-2012/13
- Retail offering
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