Table of Contents
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 2: Retail sales trends, 2014/15
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- Figure 3: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2013-15
- John Lewis
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- Figure 4: John Lewis: Year-on-year growth, 2014-15
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 5: Real wages growth: Wages growth vs inflation, 2010-15
- Inflation
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- Figure 6: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2014-15
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Food Retailing
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- Retail sales performance: Christmas
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- Figure 7: Retail sales: Annual % change in value and volume sales in all food stores, non-seasonally adjusted, Jan 2014-Dec 2015
- Prices: A bargain Christmas
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- Figure 8: Annual percentage change in the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages and alcoholic beverages and tobacco, Jan 2014-Dec 2015
- A good month for specialists
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- Figure 9: Retail sales: Annual % change in value and sales in food stores, by operation, Dec 2014-Dec 2015
- Online
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- Figure 10: Online retail sales: Annual % change in the value of online sales through food stores, Jan 2015-Dec 2015
- So how have the grocers performed?
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- Figure 11: Food retailers: Christmas performance, 2015
- Where next?
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Other food and drink specialists
- Clothing retailers
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- Electricals retailing
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Economy
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- UK: Mintel's Christmas message
- And 2016?
- And then?
- Convenience stores
- UK: Spar grows store estate by 8% in six months
- Grocers
- UK: Aldi to open 80 new stores in 2016
- UK: Asda introduces ‘Go-Getters for Forgetters’
- UK: Booth reports strong growth in Christmas orders
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …grows ahead of the grocery market
- …makes bid for Home Retail Group
- UK: Tesco
- …to introduce charge for small click-and-collect orders
- …to offer dog pampering in larger stores
- UK: Waitrose plans 14 new supermarkets in 2016
- Other food and drink specialists
- UK: Majestic Wine sees sales grow 12.2% during the Christmas period
- UK: Berry Bros & Rudd sees losses double
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- UK: Arcadia continues to roll out Outfit fascia
- UK: Barbour reduces core range
- UK: Blue Inc to close a quarter of its shops
- UK: Bonmarché announces Beth Butterwick departure
- UK: Boux Avenue delivers strong growth for Theo Paphitis Retail Group
- UK: Burberry
- …celebrates the Lunar New Year on WeChat
- …releases interactive 3D scarf advert
- UK: Jaegar owner halts sale
- UK: Jigsaw reports a record-breaking Christmas
- UK: Joules eyes IPO
- UK: Kurt Geiger bought out by Cinven
- UK: Mamas & Papas returns to profit
- UK: Mulberry grows revenues by 5% in the first half
- UK: Next sales increase just 0.4% prior to Christmas
- UK: River Island to introduce a plus-size range
- UK: SuperGroup revenues surge 22.3%
- UK: Ted Baker buys The Ugly Brown Building
- UK: Topshop partners with Appear Here to provide pop-up concessions
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Brantano’s new owners put the business under review
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Marks and Spencer
- …opens first store in Beijing
- …UK like-for-like sales fall 2.5%
- UK: Poundland third quarter revenues grow 29.4%
- Department stores
- UK: BHS appoints chief financial officer
- UK: Debenhams in talks with former Kingfisher boss
- UK: Harvey Nichols profits tumble 29.7%
- UK: House of Fraser reports rising Q3 sales
- UK: John Lewis
- …has a strong week for electricals
- …invests £500m in online business
- …sales grow 4.1% over the Christmas period
- UK: Selfridges launches Bright New Things campaign
- DIY retailing
- UK: Topps Tiles Q1 sales rise 4.4%
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone
- …first-half sales up 5%
- …to launch a tech emergency service
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright delivers “significant growth” in profits
- Home shopping
- UK: Amazon to lease aircraft in a bid to launch air-delivery service
- UK: Atterley stops trading as it enters administration
- UK: Matalan Direct hires buying director
- UK: Moonpig innovates with augmented reality
- UK: Ocado reports double-digit Q4 growth
- UK: PrettyLittleThing full-year sales reach £30m
- Furniture retailing
- UK: Habitat adapts website for mobile shoppers
- Health and beauty retailing
- UK: Concerns raised over LloydsPharmacy’s bid for Sainsbury’s division
- UK: Holland & Barrett
- …eyes potential £1bn sale
- …plans to double sales to £1bn
- UK: The Fragrance Shop sales boosted by luxury brand demand
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Sports Direct sales and profits up in the first half
- Music, video and game retailing
- UK: Foyles reports strong Christmas trading
- UK: Game’s sales fall 6.7% as demand for consoles declines
- Shopping locations
- UK: Birmingham Bullring owner eyes bid for Grand Central
- Jewellers
- UK: Signet Jewelers’ UK sales rise 4.9%
- Economy
- UK: Retail sales rise 2.0% in November
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