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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, 2014-15
- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2014-15
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2014-15
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2014-15
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailers
- Department stores
- Home shopping
- DIY retailing
- Beauty retailing
News Analysis – Food
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- Convenience stores
- Italy: Simply Italia opens first convenience format in Milan
- UK: A.F. Blakemore benefits from strong convenience sector
- UK: Booker announces board changes
- UK: McColl’s sales grow 3.1% in 2015
- UK: Nisa
- …chairman fails to push through a governance reform
- …suffers £10.5 million loss
- UK: One Stop's profits tumble £11.1m
- UK: Roadchef opens second Spar motorway store
- UK: Simply Fresh targets railways and underground stations
- Grocers
- Belgium: Ahold and Delhaize announce future executive team
- Belgium: Carrefour launches pre-paid debit card with Visa
- Belgium: Lidl to team up with food banks
- Croatia: Lidl to invest €40m in Croatia in 2016
- Czech Republic: Lidl invests in Czech Republic operations
- France: Biocoop packaging free pop-up extended
- France: Carrefour
- …tackles food waste with ‘Tous Anti-Gaspi’ range
- …trials another new convenience format
- France: Franprix partners with Columbus Café
- France: Système U launches new personalised website
- Germany: Lidl acquires German food delivery start-up
- Germany: Tengelmann sells real estate
- Italy: Carrefour Italy introduced personalised coupons
- Italy: Selex expands within Italy
- Netherlands: Ahold Q3 sales rise 13.0%
- Netherlands: Jumbo allocates €1 billion for store improvements
- Portugal: Minipreço opens a string of new stores
- Russia: X5 Retail Group partners with Euroset
- UK: Aldi and Lidl plan 171 store openings
- UK: Asda
- …calls time on Black Friday promotions
- …launches third-party click-and-collect
- …like-for-like sales fall 4.5%
- …‘best decision’ was shunning Black Friday
- UK: Lidl unveils first UK 'store of the future'
- UK: Ocado reports double-digit Q4 growth
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …like-for-like sales fall 1.6%
- …proposes gym within supermarket
- UK: Tesco
- …Extra stores to open at 5am on Black Friday
- …participates in Diwali celebrations
- …promotes Christmas ranges with largest in-store tasting campaign
- …to pay $12m to US investors
- UK: Waitrose appoints head of hospitality
- Other food specialists
- UK: Conviviality group revenues climb 38%
- UK: Holland & Barrett hires celebrity brand ambassador
- UK: Majestic Wine profits fall following Naked Wines acquisition
- UK: Whittard of Chelsea seeks to meet demand in China
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing and footwear retailing
- France: Cacharel to re-launch its own boutique network
- Germany: Hugo Boss to focus on driving own-retail sales
- Spain: Zara installs iPads in changing rooms
- UK: AnnaLena Couture chooses Fulham for first UK store
- UK: Arcadia like-for-like sales fall 0.9%
- UK: Asda’s George refocuses on the customer
- UK: Bonmarché revenues rise 6.5%
- UK: Burberry
- …delivers ‘robust’ performance
- …lets customers star in a personalised Christmas advert
- UK: Finery London pops up in London
- UK: French Connection to close seven stores
- UK: Jaeger sales grow 6% in 2014
- UK: Jigsaw
- …full-price strategy is paying off
- …sales rise 18.5% to £104.9m
- UK: Karen Millen makes a £9.7m loss
- UK: Mothercare halves UK losses
- UK: Mulberry grows revenues by 5% in the first half
- UK: New Look revenues rise 5.9%
- UK: Oasis turns a profit for the first time in three years
- UK: Reiss extends personal tailoring service
- UK: River Island
- …founders invest in Mint Velvet
- …introduces click-and-don’t-collect service
- UK: Superdry’s Idris Elba collection to launch this week
- UK: The White Company doubles full-year profits
- UK: Whistles falls into a £1.1m loss
- Footwear and accessories retailing
- UK: Cinven poised to take over Kurt Geiger
- UK: Dune full-year sales rise 7.2%
- UK: Office
- …eyed by South African retailer
- …sold to Truworths for £256m
- UK: Radley repositions itself to push British roots
- Jewellery retailing
- UK: Argento embarks on a major investment programme
- UK: Lovisa to open a handful of stores before Easter
- UK: Pandora UK revenues surge 50.5%
- Multi-sector retailing
- France: Monoprix introduces in-store iBeacons
- UK: B&M like-for-like revenues rise 1.2%
- UK: Cath Kidston’s losses widen to £14.2m
- UK: Poundland
- …like-for-like sales fall 2.8%
- …to trial multi-price format
- UK: Poundworld gains £50m funding for investment
- Department stores
- Netherlands: John Lewis to launch first European venture
- UK: Fortnum & Mason announce record sales and profits
- UK: Harrods gears up for Christmas
- UK: House of Fraser
- …creates shoppable windows for Black Friday
- …reports rising Q3 sales
- UK: John Lewis
- …fashion sales rise as cold weather hits
- …to anchor new Edinburgh development
- UK: Selfridges to launch new Body Studio
- DIY retailing
- France: Leroy Merlin’s owner acquires furniture specialist
- Germany: Hornbach Group reduces earnings target
- Netherlands: Handyman unveils new XL store format
- UK: Dobbies sales grow 7.7% in 2014
- UK: Kingfisher
- …implements new IT platform
- …profits suffer from ‘softer market’ in France
- UK: Leroy Merlin considers Homebase takeover
- UK: Topps Tiles revenues rise 8.7%
- Electrical retailing
- Belgium: Media Markt trials in-store buy-and-win initiative
- Netherlands: iBood eyes European expansion
- Furniture retailing
- UK: Ikea
- …drives double-digit annual growth
- …eyes Bhs’ Oxford Street unit
- UK: ScS trading in line with expectations
- Home shopping
- France: Etsy takes Christmas pop-up concept to France
- Germany: Zalando to reach almost €3bn in full year
- Italy: Yoox Net-a-Porter Group exceeds cost saving estimations
- Netherlands: AO World to launch in the Netherlands
- UK: Amazon launches Pantry in the UK
- UK: Black Friday boosts online sales
- UK: Findel’s profits remain flat
- UK: Made.com launches online mattress retailer
- UK: New over-50s menswear brand launches
- UK: Ocado reports double-digit Q4 growth
- UK: Shop Direct call centre closures to go ahead
- UK: SportPursuit raises £9.5m in funding
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Cotswold Outdoor and Snow & Rock merge
- UK: Halfords
- …profits down 5.9%
- …unveils new ‘For Life’s Journey’ strapline
- UK: JD Sports ups full year profit forecast
- UK: Mountain Warehouse launches women’s activewear brand
- UK: Sports Direct sales and profits up in the first half
- Beauty retailing
- France: Monop’beauty opens tenth store
- France: Urban Decay opens a make-up lesson pop-up
- Greetings card retailers
- UK: Card Factory sales grow 7.9%
- Pet retailing
- Germany: Fressnapf expects growth of around €100m
- UK: Pets at Home revenues grow by 6.0%
- Economy
- UK: November shop prices fall 2.1% year-on-year
- UK: Retail sales edge up 0.8% in October
- UK: Retail sales grow 0.7% in November
- UK: Retail sales slow to 0.9% in October
Supermarkets – Europe – November 2015: E Leclerc
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- What we think
- Drive continues to perform well
- Investing for the future
- Strengthening its position via alliances
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 5: E Leclerc: Group financial performance, excl. VAT, 2010-14
- Figure 6: E.Leclerc: Estimated international sales by country, excl. VAT, Inc. fuel, 2011-14
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- Figure 7: E. Leclerc: Group outlet data, 2010-14
- Retail offering
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