Table of Contents
Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 3: Retail sales trends, 2015/16
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- Figure 4: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS June 2014- June 2016
- Mintel’s financial confidence tracker
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- Figure 5: Trends in consumer sentiment for the coming year, Jan 2015 – July 2016
- John Lewis
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- Figure 6: John Lewis: Year-on-year Growth, 2015-16
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 7: Real wages growth: Wages growth vs inflation, 2010-16
- Inflation
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- Figure 8: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, 2015-16
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Online Retailing
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- Online growth remains strong
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- Figure 9: Annual % change in online retail sales (ex-fuel), non-seasonally adjusted, Jan 2015 – June 2016
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- Figure 10: Annual % change in online sales of core retail categories, non-seasonally adjusted, Jan-Jun 2016
- Online continues to grow its share of all retail
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- Figure 11: Online retailing as a percentage of all retailing (ex-fuel), non-seasonally adjusted, Jan 2015-June 2016
- Pureplays continue to gain share of the online market
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- Figure 12: Store based and pureplayer share of all online sales, 2008-16
- How people shop online
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- Figure 13: The online shopping journey, May 2016
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- Other food specialists
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- Electrical retailing
- Furniture retailing
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Economy
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Convenience Stores
- UK: Best-one trials value fascia to compete with the discounters
- UK: Booker sales rise 10%
- UK: Convenience store numbers grow 21%
- UK: My Local
- …enters administration
- …hires KPMG to explore options
- …close to collapse
- UK: Nisa returns to profit
- UK: The Co-op acquires six stores from My Local
- Grocers
- UK: 10p supermarket pop-up set to launch permanently
- UK: Booths hosts beer ‘n’ BBQ night
- UK: Grocery sales fall 0.2%
- UK: Iceland sees like-for-likes slide but profits remain flat
- UK: Morrisons opens Doddle concessions in store
- UK: Ocado profits rise 5.7%
- UK: Sainsbury's
- …announces the closure of all Netto UK stores
- …finance chief John Rogers to take the reins at Home Retail
- …sends formal acquisition document to Home Retail
- …trials one hour delivery in Wandsworth
- UK: Tesco
- …confirms sale of Giraffe and Kipa
- …offloads Dobbies Garden Centres
- …to open pop-up wine bar in London
- UK: Waitrose to launch on British Corner Shop
- UK: Walmart's Head of China to take the helm at Asda
- Other food specialists
- UK: Holland & Barrett profits rise 12.2%
- UK: Majestic Wine group sales surge 41.3%
News Analysis - Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- UK: Bhs
- …overseas business sold to Qataris
- …to receive second offer from Mike Ashley
- UK: Bonmarche
- …confirms CEO start date
- …revenues up 5.3%
- UK: Bravissimo to open at Liverpool ONE
- UK: Cambridge Satchel Company reports a £5.4m loss
- UK: Forever 21 reviews UK store portfolio
- UK: Jack Wills investor looks to sell
- UK: Joules retail sales rise 11%
- UK: Lipsy plots to become ‘new branded destination’
- UK: Mint Velvet opens first shopping centre store
- UK: Mr Porter expands with own-label launch
- UK: Mulberry reports “significant progress”
- UK: Oasis replatforms website
- UK: Primark delivers 7% growth
- UK: Reiss profits surge 52%
- UK: Store Twenty One
- …'considering its options'
- …enters CVA
- UK: Superdry increases focus on sportswear
- UK: Ted Baker sales rise 11.3%
- UK: White Stuff chooses Germany for local language site
- UK: Zara reports 8% rise in UK sales
- Footwear and accessories retailing
- UK: Aspinal of London partners with Cunard
- UK: Clarks profits tumble 65%
- UK: Shoe Zone announces board reshuffle
- UK: Shoon acquires foot clinic Shuropody
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Marks and Spencer general merchandise sales slide 8.9%
- UK: Poundland like-for-like sales slip 3.9%
- UK: Steinhoff
- …reconsidering Poundland acquisition
- …sets its sights on Poundland
- …ups bid in Poundland
- UK: Wilko achieves 15% surge in profits
- Department stores
- UK: British Land sells Debenhams flagship
- UK: Debenhams’
- …like-for-like sales fall 0.2%
- …the front bidder for its Irish operations
- UK: John Lewis
- …rolls out visual search technology
- …to launch luxury ready-to-wear label
- UK: Selfridges takes ‘retail theatre’ to new heights
- DIY retailing
- UK: Topps Tiles like-for-like sales rise 6.2%
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone like-for-like sales rise 5%
- Furniture retailing
- UK: Carpetright like-for-like sales up 2.8%
- UK: Dreams owner prepares for £400m sale
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm sales growth slows to 1.8%
- Home Shopping
- UK: Amazon
- …expands Dash offering and Fresh deliveries
- …plows ahead with 1,000 new job roles
- UK: Findel narrows losses in the year of Kitbag sale
- UK: Gear4Music enjoys continued strong European sales
- UK: Mr Porter expands with own-label launch
- UK: N Brown revenues dip 0.2%
- UK: Shop Direct
- …deputy chief executive to depart
- …working with TH_NK to update Very site
- Health & Beauty retailing
- UK: Sirin Labs opens Mayfair flagship store
- UK: Superdrug sales climb 5.4%
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Blackwell’s appoints new customer service director
- UK: Hobbycraft sales up
- Sports and Leisure Goods Retailing
- UK: JD Sports expects strong trading on the back of the Euros
- UK: Sports Direct reports a ‘disappointing’ year
- Garden Centres
- UK: Dobbies new owners outline growth plans
- Shopping locations
- UK: Manchester Arndale plans £11 million redevelopment
- Economy
- UK: Food prices fall 0.8% in June
- UK: Retail footfall rises 0.3% in May
- UK: Retail sales grow 3.4% in May
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