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Analyst comment – Rationalising the beauty sector
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- Acquisitions in Southern Europe
- The results are better than they look
- Next stage
- Seizing the opportunity
European Retail Sales
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- Key points
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- Figure 1: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2017-18
- Figure 2: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2017-18
- Inflation
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2017-18
- Figure 4: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2017-18
Launch Activity and Innovations
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- France: Casino launches production of aromatic herbs under a greenhouse in-store
- Netherlands: HEMA launches ‘Too Good To Go’ to tackle food waste
- Germany: MediaMarktSaturn latest retailer to introduce cashierless shopping
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Mixed goods retailing
- Department stores
- Furniture retailing
- Home shopping
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Convenience stores
- UK: Sainsbury’s trials edible insects at c-stores
- Grocers
- Belgium: Carrefour and Provera Belux form purchase alliance
- France: Casino acquires stake in Lyf Pay
- France: Lidl France expanding online offer in 2020
- Netherlands: Ahold Delhaize presents Leading Together growth strategy
- Poland: Stokrotka acquires Polish retail chain Sano
- Russia: O’Key opens new DA! Stores
- UK: Aldi opens eight new stores in a single day
- UK: Asda
- …introduces ‘inclusive hour’ trial
- …sales rise for 6th straight quarter
- UK: Morrisons and Tesco share concerns over Sainsbury’s-Asda merger
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …introduces food bank labelling scheme for customers
- …introducing wellness hubs in selected stores
- …opens new-look supermarket
- UK: Tesco
- …and WWF to collaborate on long-running sustainable food effort
- …partners up with Volkswagen to roll out electric charging bays
- UK: Waitrose to roll out its supper club concept to a further 42 shops
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine reports £200,000 loss in interim results
- Other food specialists
- UK: Holland and Barrett hires former Homebase and Argos boss as new chairman
- UK: Hotel Chocolat enters Japan
News Analysis - Clothing and Footwear
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- Denmark: Bestseller launches new sustainability strategy
- Europe: Weekday opening first stores in Iceland and Luxembourg
- France: Chanel bans use of exotic skins
- France: Vivarte enters negotiations for the sale of its subsidiary Chevignon
- Italy: Fila to launch new fashion line
- Italy: Uniqlo adding Italy to its retail portfolio
- UK: AllSaints profits affected by increased store operating costs
- UK: Anine Bing opening first UK store in London
- UK: Arcadia
- …introduces Klarna’s ‘Slice it in 3’ across all brands
- …Beyoncé buys out Ivy Park to cut ties with Sir Philip Green
- UK: Black Friday hits the UK
- UK: Bonmarché sales affected by weaker footfall
- UK: Burberry teaming up with Vivienne Westwood on first collaboration
- UK: Challenging trading at Primark in November
- UK: Gap launches limited edition collection with GQ
- UK: Givenchy opens first standalone UK store
- UK: H&M
- …introduces a concept café to its Westfield White city store
- …opening new concept store in Hammersmith
- …ARKET opens at Birmingham’s Bullring
- …scraps Cheap Monday brand
- UK: Matalan opens a user experience lab at its head office
- UK: Mulberry creates travelling interactive retailer experience for the festive season
- UK: Next signs concession deal with Mamas & Papas
- UK: Paul Smith teams up with Manchester United for accessories collection
- UK: Quiz clothing reports increase in first half group revenue
- UK: Reserved launches new collection in partnership with British Vogue
- UK: Stance opens first store outside the US
- UK: Ted Baker
- …Q3 sales flat
- …boss takes leave of absence
- UK: TK Maxx opening first-ever Oxford Street store
- UK: Joules sees strong revenue growth in first half results
- UK: US Polo Assn to launch in Outfit and House of Fraser for UK debut
- UK: Urban Outfitters returns to profit
- UK: Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney withstand tough trading
News Analysis – Mixed Goods
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- Netherlands: Ramphastos completes acquisition of homewares retailer HEMA
- UK: B&M sales boosted 16%
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Mothercare group revenue falls 13.1%
- Department stores
- Germany: Merger between Karstadt and Kaufhof officially approved
- UK: Beales acquires Palmers
- UK: Fortnum & Mason
- …opens new City store at the Royal Exchange
- …reports 6th consecutive year of double-digit growth
- UK: House of Fraser
- …landmark Manchester store saved from closure
- …Swindon store saved
- UK: John Lewis launching click-and-collect service in Booths
News Analysis – Household Goods
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- DIY retailing
- UK: B&Q to sell stores for £125 million to fund transformation strategy
- UK: Kingfisher to exit Russian, Spanish and Portuguese markets
- UK: Topps Tiles profits dip
- UK: Travis Perkins reviewing options for Wickes DIY chain
- UK: Homebase enters concession deal with Tapi Carpets
- Carpet retailing
- Europe: Emma Mattress reports record sales over Black Friday weekend
- Furniture retailing
- Germany: Steinhoff appoints new CEO
- Sweden: IKEA
- …announces new carbon emissions target
- …defends 40% fall in profits as part of its business transformation
- …to cut 7,500 cuts
- UK: Habitat opens Brighton flagship store
- UK: ScS achieves growth in core business
News Analysis – Online
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- France: Kering bringing its e-commerce in-house
- Germany: Zalando
- …Media Solutions renames itself to Zalando Marketing Services
- …signs up 17 new premium brands
- Italy: Amazon opens first pop-up store in Italy
- Spain: Food delivery start-up, Glovo, ramps up global expansion
- UK: AO World
- …narrows losses
- …takeover of Mobile Phones Direct given green light
- UK: Boohoo found to have misled customers
- UK: Marie Claire branches out to ecommerce
- UK: Ocado considering expansion across Europe, Asia & Australia
- UK: Sosandar profits rise over 400% in interim results
News Analysis – Other Retail
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- Health & beauty retailing
- UK: The Fragrance Shop launches three new pop-up shops called Sniff Bars
- UK: Crabtree & Evelyn opens first concept store in London
- Opticians
- Netherlands: Pearle opens transparent test shop
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Card Factory posts resilient results
- UK: WH Smith enters South American market
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Finland: Amer Sports close to being taken over by China’s Anta
- Garden centres
- UK: Dobbies reports slump in profits and sales
- UK: Wyevale offloads a further five stores
- Shopping centres
- UK: Intu buyout deal falls through
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- UK: Half of Evans Cycles stores to be closed despite profitability
- UK: Pets at Home profits drop due to costs from vet restructuring
News Analysis - Economy
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- UK: October retail sales up by 3.2%
- UK: Retail sales fell by 0.5% in November
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