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, 2015/16
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- Figure 3: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS March 2014- March 2016
- John Lewis
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- Figure 4: John Lewis – Year-on-year growth, 2015-16
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 5: Real wages growth: – Wages growth vs inflation, 2010-16
- Inflation
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- Figure 6: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2015-16
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – DIY Retailing
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- Fluctuating retail sales affected by the weather
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- Figure 7: Annual percentage change in value and volume sales of hardware, paints and glass specialists, non-seasonally adjusted, 2015 – May 2016
- Price deflation holding back value sales
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- Figure 8: Annual percentage change in consumer prices, by DIY categories and overall CPI, Sep 2015 – May 2016
- Property market growing, as is renting…
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- Figure 9: Number of residential property transactions with a value of £40,000+ in the UK, non-seasonally adjusted, Jan 2015 – May 2016
- Attitudes to DIY
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- Figure 10: Attitudes towards shopping for DIY/home improvements products, March 2016
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- Clothing retailers
- Multi-sector retailing
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Furniture and homewares retailing
- Home shopping
- Economy
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Convenience stores
- UK: Convenience store investment reaches £600m
- UK: My Local looking to divest 10% of store estate
- Grocers
- UK: Aldi to open Shoreditch pop-up wine shop
- UK: Asda
- …reveals Clarke's future successor
- …sales decline by 5.7%
- UK: ‘Big four’ retain shoppers in flat grocery market
- UK: Guess How Much! discount store opens its doors
- UK: Iceland
- …partners with mum vloggers for new campaign
- …sees like-for-likes slide but profits remain flat
- UK: Morrisons
- …in nationwide tie-up with Timpson
- …relaunches loyalty card as Morrisons More
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …Argos deal facing watchdog probe
- …equips shoppers with smart fridges to tackle food waste
- …finance chief John Rogers to take the reins at Home Retail
- …like-for-like sales dip 0.8%
- UK: Tesco
- …F&F clothing to be subject to Direct delivery charges
- …confirms sale of Giraffe and Kipa
- UK: The Co-op rebrands thousands of stores with revived logo
- UK: Whole Foods offer two-hour delivery in London
- Other food and drink specialists
- UK: Conviviality sales surge 137%
- UK: Costco reports 7.1% growth
- UK: Greggs relaunches mobile app integrating loyalty scheme
- UK: Thorntons to offload Oxford Street flagship
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- UK: Austin Reed
- …estate to be broken up for sale
- …stores to shutter after no viable offers were received
- UK: Bhs
- …asks bidders to up their offers
- …rescue fails putting 11,000 jobs in question
- UK: Bonmarché revenue up 5.3%
- UK: Burberry sales fall 1%
- UK: Charles Tyrwhitt relaunches websites to drive international growth
- UK: Edinburgh Woollen Mill owner joins bidding for Dobbies
- UK: H&M to collaborate with KENZO
- UK: Jack Wills to open at intu Milton Keynes
- UK: Joules
- …eyes a number of Austin Reed stores
- …share price soars on stock market debut
- UK: Matalan profits tumble 62.5% due to warehouse issues
- UK: Monsoon profits tumble 59%
- UK: Moss Bros shows further improvement
- UK: Mothercare full-year profits up 51%
- UK: New Look
- …profits increase 7%
- …to open largest men’s store to date
- UK: Supergroup ends the year with robust trading
- UK: Two Bhs suppliers fall into administration
- UK: Wolf & Badger launches into beauty and childrenswear
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Hush launches ‘pop-in’ concept
- UK: Shoe Zone sales fall amid store closures
- Multi-sector Retailing
- UK: Argos first quarter revenue up 2.6%
- UK: B&M sales rise 23.6% as expansion ramps up
- UK: Guess How Much! discount store opens its doors
- UK: Marks & Spencer
- …breaks tradition to stock early Autumn lines
- …reports declining profits in ‘mixed’ results
- ..restructures management team for customer focus
- Department stores
- UK: Harrods introduces personal shopping for men
- UK: John Lewis teams up with style guru Jim Chapman
- UK: Selfridges launches first shoppable app
- DIY retailing
- UK: Kingfisher sales grow 5.1%
- UK: Topps Tiles revenues rise 3.8%
- UK: Wesfarmers ends Homebase's partnership with Nectar
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone ends the year up 5% like-for-like
- Furniture and homewares retailing
- UK: Dyson personally designs Oxford Street store
- UK: Ikea to open in Westfield Stratford
- UK: Lakeland unveils refitted flagship store
- UK: Loaf to open second London store
- UK: Tiger rebrands to Flying Tiger Copenhagen
- UK: West Elm extends partnership with John Lewis
- Home shopping
- UK: Amazon
- …begins sale of fresh food through Morrisons tie-up
- …launches full fresh food offering
- UK: AO World reports 25.7% growth in revenues
- UK: Boohoo
- …launches first advertising campaign for men
- …revenues surge 41%
- UK: Debenhams appoints new chief executive
- UK: DPD innovates with geo-location technology in app
- UK: Gear4Music full year revenues surge 46%
- UK: Shop Direct working with TH_NK to update Very site
- Health & Beauty retailing
- UK: Boots campaign highlights healthcare expertise
- UK: Estée Lauder launches male grooming station
- Book, greetings cards and stationery retailing
- UK: Card Factory offsets falling footfall with a rise in average spend
- UK: Smiggle hires UK property head for store rollout
- UK: WH Smith high street sales fall 4% in line with expectations
- Sports and Leisure Goods Retailing
- UK: Go Outdoors explores potential sale
- UK: Halfords
- …acquires online bikes and accessories specialists
- …retail sales rise 1.3%
- UK: Mountain Warehouse profits rise 36%
- UK: Tesla opens experience-led store in shopping centre
- Jewellers
- UK: Pandora Q1 revenues rise 34%
- Garden Centres
- UK: Edinburgh Woollen Mill owner joins bidding for Dobbies
- Toys and Games Retailing
- UK: Lego Group to open Leicester Square flagship
- Pet specialists
- UK: Pets at Home like-for-like sales rise 2.1%
- Shopping locations
- UK: Birmingham Bullring launches new pop-up space
- UK: Footfall down 2.4% in April
- UK: Intu Lakeside ‘re-imagined’ with Nickelodeon theme park
- Economy
- UK: One in five payments contactless says Visa
- UK: ONS announce 4.3% rise in retail sales
- UK: Retail sales fall 0.9% as clothing demand weakens
- UK: Retail sales in May lift 1.4%
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