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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
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Home shopping
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Co-ops (retail)
- UK: Co-operative Food
- …members press for election overhaul
- …says it cannot enhance commitment to Fairtrade
- Convenience stores
- UK: One Stop opens two in-store Subway concessions
- Grocers
- Belgium: Delhaize revenues rise 15.8%
- Denmark: Dansk Supermarked sales rise 3.8%
- France: Carrefour sales increase 6.2%
- France: Casino’s sales up 5.3% in its first quarter
- Ireland: SuperValu becomes the biggest supermarket in Ireland
- Italy: Coop’s acquisition of Superconti approved
- Italy: Esselunga sales edge up 0.8%
- Italy: Lidl plots Italian expansion
- Netherlands: PLUS launches new food ranges
- Portugal: Jerónimo Martins posts 9.4% growth
- Slovenia: Mercator sales and profits fall in 2014
- Spain: DIA’s acquisition of Eroski stores approved
- UK: Morrisons
- …former boss receives £1m bonus
- …Q1 sales down 1.1%
- …to cut head office staff by a third
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …converting space to non-food
- …gains Next’s former CFO
- …reports first loss in ten years
- …to cut 800 in-store jobs
- UK: Supermarkets could face pricing probe
- UK: Tesco
- …appoints Master of Wine
- …appoints new group brand director
- …expected to reveal new investment into pension scheme
- …rejects a bid for its South Korean assets
- …reports £6.4bn loss
- …takes over full ownership of the Euphorium bakery chain
- Other food specialists
- UK: Community Store announces plans to expand in the UK
- UK: Greggs sales grow 5.0% in Q1
- UK: Holland & Barrett
- …to open its first US stores
- …opens first Free From store
- UK: Majestic Wine acquires Naked Wines
- UK: Thorntons reports ‘mixed’ performance for Q3
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing and footwear retailing
- Europe: Primark revenues rise 12%
- France: Auchan launches new-concept personalised tailors shop, Bouton Noir
- France: Vivarte announces a major restructuring programme
- Germany: Hugo Boss sales rise 9% in Q1
- Netherlands: Macintosh Group grows market share in Benelux
- Spain: Mango turnover rises 9.3%
- UK: Bonmarché has challenging fourth quarter
- UK: Burberry revenues rise 9% in the second half of the year.
- UK: Charles Tyrwhitt sales jump 20%
- UK: Cuplé opens its first London store
- UK: French Connection warns on sales and financial performance
- UK: LK Bennett sales rise 4.4%
- UK: Monsoon Accessorize suffers sales and profit decline
- UK: N Brown sales flat on the year
- UK: New Look
- …in takeover talks
- …eyed by investors
- UK: Next
- …chief executive pledges to raise shopfloor wages
- …sales up 4.1% in Q1
- UK: Shoe Zone fails to meet market expectations
- UK: Shoon
- …bought out
- …enters Company Voluntary Arrangement
- UK: SuperGroup posts 16.7% retail growth
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Laura Ashely sales and profits rise in 2014
- UK: Mothercare beginning to benefit from turnaround plan
- UK: Poundland
- …sales reach £1bn
- …proposed purchase of 99p Store under scrutiny
- …purchase of 99p stores faces full investigation
- …brings forward review of 99p Stores deal
- UK: Poundworld unveils new ecommerce website
- UK: Tiger to open new store in Milton Keynes
- UK: Woolworths staff lose compensation battle
- Department stores
- UK: BHS to expand its food offering
- UK: Debenhams
- …like-for-like sales rise 1.3%
- …losses widen in Ireland
- UK: Harrods taken over by Samsung
- UK: House of Fraser
- …achieves ‘record sales’
- …appoints Colin Elliot as new Financial Director
- UK: Liberty owner shows interest in Ben Sherman
- UK: John Lewis launches recruitment drive for 850 new roles
- DIY retailing
- France: Bricorama suffers sales decline
- France: Leroy Merlin launches second-hand tool sale
- France: Mr Bricolage launches DIY rental site
- UK: Travis Perkins consumer division reports sales growth of 8.7%
- Electrical retailing
- France: Fnac sales grow by 0.5% in Q1
- Germany: Dixons Carphone offloads The Phone House
- Germany: Media-Saturn acquires live shopping platform
- Germany: Metro Group reports strongest like-for-like growth in 7 years
- Netherlands: Dixons Carphone exits the Netherlands
- UK: Apple revenues grow 27.2% in Q2
- UK: BrightHouse
- …reveals new business practises
- …unveils ambitious growth plans
- UK: Carphone Warehouse to launch new mobile network iD next week
- UK: Maplin reports strongest sales growth in seven years
- UK: Phones4U creditors to receive 0.4p per pound owed
- Furniture and homeware retailing
- UK: Carpetright sales grow 5.4% in Q4
- UK: Dunelm Chairman to stand down
- UK: Ikea UK sees profits fall
- UK: ScS reports mixed Q3 results
- Home shopping
- France: Cnova widens losses in Q1
- France: Sephora launches click-and-collect
- France: Vente-privee opens wine and food distribution centre
- Germany: Zalando posts best ever first quarter results
- Germany: Rewe launches online wine store
- Germany: Rocket Internet posts €20.2m loss
- Ireland: Zalando opens new technology hub in Dublin
- UK: Boden announces shoppable digital catalogue
- UK: Boohoo sales soar 27% in 2014
- UK: Farfetch to use investment to drive growth
- UK: Home Retail Group full-year sales edge up 1%
- UK: Hut Group announces 39% rise in sales
- UK: Made.com in funding talks
- UK: Mr Porter develops sportswear offering
- UK: Net-a-Porter announces new shoppable social network
- UK: Ocado
- …launches Apple Watch grocery app
- …patents robots for picking and packing
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: WH Smith high street sales suffer again
- Toy retailing
- UK: Hornby expects to post first profit in three years
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- France: Intersport turnover up 6%
- UK: Evans Cycles
- …close to purchase
- …acquired by ECI
- UK: JD Sports revenues climb 25%
- Pet goods retailing
- UK: Pets at Home sales grow 9.6% in 2014
- Economy
- UK: Like-for-like retail sales rise 3.2% in March
- UK: Retail sales rise 4.1% in March
Convenience Stores – Spar UK Ltd
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- What we think
- Services to fulfil a variety of shopper missions
- Franchise partners and local suppliers
- New foodservice counter concept
- Forecourt expansion
- Own brand drive success
- Increased online activity to engage with consumers
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 6: Spar UK Ltd: Group financial performance, 2010/11-2014/15
- Figure 7: Spar UK Ltd: Outlet data, 2010/11-2014/15
- Retail offering
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