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Analyst Comment – EU takes a stand against Plastic Packaging
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- What we’ve seen
- Enforcing change from above
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- Figure 1: European consumers' attitudes towards plastic and packaging, September 2018
- Retailers are already taking action
- A challenge and an opportunity for retailers
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- Figure 2: Oil dispenser @ Eat17 Spar, Hammersmith, December 2018
- What it means
European Retail Sales
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- Key points
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- Figure 3: Major European economies: year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2017-18
- Figure 4: Major European economies: year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2017-18
- Inflation
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- Figure 5: Major European economies: all items CPI, 2017-18
- Figure 6: Major European economies: food price inflation, 2017-18
Launch Activity and Innovations
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- France: Carrefour testing out its own cashierless store concept
- Italy: Carrefour trialling new format stores
- Germany: MediaMarktSaturn latest retailer to introduce cashierless shopping
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- DIY retailing
- Home shopping
- Health and beauty retailing
- Book and stationery retailing
News Analysis – Food & Drink
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- Co-ops
- UK: Co-op to open 100 new food stores this year
- Grocers
- France: Carrefour tests new store concept
- France: E. Leclerc opening ‘pedestrian drive’ outlet in Paris
- Germany: Aldi Nord reports loss for the first time in its home market
- Germany: Eismann reportedly up for sale
- Italy: Crai Secom and D.IT team up to create Gruppo Levante
- Netherlands: Coop posts 18% boost in turnover in full year 2018
- Spain: Dia
- …to sign €200 million funding deal
- …financially struggling
- UK: Aldi has its most profitable festive period yet
- UK: Iceland trials reverse vending machine
- UK: Morrisons
- …introduces £1 fruit and vegetable box scheme
- …posts fourth consecutive year of Christmas sales increase
- …to slash the price of more than 900 products
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …and Asda apply for judicial review of CMA probe into merger
- …like-for-like sales fall 1.1% in Q3
- UK: Tesco reports strong Christmas sales
- UK: The John Lewis Partnership to test farmbots
- UK: Waitrose banning plastic glitter in Christmas products
- Other food specialists
- UK: Greggs increases its 2018 profit forecast
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine reports 6.8% Christmas sales boost
News Analysis – Clothing and Footwear
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- UK: Blue Inc enters administration
- UK: Burberry
- …hires Rod Manley as chief marketing officer
- …teaming up with Vivienne Westwood on first collaboration
- UK: Challenging trading at Primark in November
- UK: FatFace sales improve following tough start to Christmas trading
- UK: Missguided reports a pre-tax loss of £46 million
- UK: Next posts strong sales for Christmas period after disappointing November
- UK: Superdry
- …co-founder Julian Dunkerton returns to retailer in effort to save it
- …half-year profits down by 49%
- UK: Ted Baker
- …boss takes leave of absence
- …retail sales up 12.2% during Christmas trading
- UK: Victoria Beckham luxury fashion business makes a loss of £10.2 million for the year
- UK: Whistles returns to profit
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Footasylum cautions on profits
- UK: Shoe Zone enjoys a successful year
News Analysis – Mixed Goods
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- Europe: PEPCO reports a 10.6% increase in revenue for the full year
- UK: B&M posts 1.6% fall in like-for-like revenues in its third quarter
- UK: Home Bargains introduces ‘Quiet Hour’ for customers with autism
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: M&S
- …opening first Spanish high street store
- …sales down 2.2%
- …unveils vegan friendly range
- UK: Mothercare reports an 11.4% drop in like-for-like sales
- Department stores
- UK: Debenhams like-for-like sales tumble 3.4% over Christmas
- UK: John Lewis Partnership sales up 1.4%
- UK: Selfridges experiences record-breaking Christmas sales performance
News Analysis – Household Goods
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- DIY retailing
- France: Mr. Bricolage Group accelerating implementation of its REBOND plan
- Germany: Hornbach posts profit slump despite sales growth
- UK: Robert Dyas swings to loss
- UK: Topps Tiles sales fall 1.4%
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Dixons Carphone report £440 million pre-tax loss in half year results
- UK: Vodafone opens experiential store on Oxford Street
- Carpet retailing
- UK: United Carpets profit dive
- Furniture retailing
- UK: H&M opening second H&M HOME concept store in London
- UK: IKEA
- …announces opening date for new Greenwich store
- …Bromley chosen as second location for IKEA city centre format store
- UK: Laura Ashley to close 40 UK stores
- UK: Victoria Plum to potentially merge with rival Bathstore
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm posts 5.7% increase in sales
News Analysis – Online
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- Belgium: Zalando reveals results of one-off pilot service in Belgium
- Germany: Zalando signs up 17 new premium brands
- UK: ASOS revising full year financial expectations
- UK: Boohoo issues trading update following ASOS news
- UK: Gear4Music cautions for lower earnings this year
- UK: Ocado fourth quarter results reveal double-digit increase in revenue
News Analysis – Other Retail
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- Health & beauty retailing
- Germany: Douglas posts sales increase of 17% in full year results
- UK: Boots
- …hires Tesco convenience boss as chief operating officer
- …posts poor first-quarter sales
- UK: The Fragrance Shop Christmas trading boosted by online
- Book and stationery retailing
- France: Furet du Nord acquires Decitre bookstores
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Sports Direct profits drop following House of Fraser acquisition
- Garden centres
- UK: Dobbies records bumper Christmas as festive sales bloom
- Music and video goods retailing
- UK: HMV officially falls into administration
- Miscellaneous specialist retailing
- UK: Halfords warns on profits as Christmas sales fall
- UK: Hobbycraft reports strong Christmas trading period
News Analysis – Economy
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- UK: November retail sales up by 4.4%
- UK: retail sales down 0.7% on a like-for-like basis in December
- UK: shop prices rise in December despite heavy discounting
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