Table of Contents
UK Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 4: Retail sales trends, Aug 2018 – Aug 2019
- BRC vs ONS
- “Small retailers ‘versus’ large retailers”
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- Figure 5: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, June 2017-August 2019
- John Lewis
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- Figure 6: John Lewis Department Stores: Year-on-Year Growth, January 2018 – September 2019
- Inflation
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- Figure 7: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, August 2018 - August 2019
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 8: Real wages growth: Wages growth vs inflation, Jan 2016 – Aug 2019
- Consumer confidence
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- Figure 9: Mintel Financial confidence tracker, January 2017 – August 2019
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Clothing and footwear
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- The market shows further signs of improvement
- Store-based retailers finally showing signs of recovery
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- Figure 10: Growth in sales, all retailers, clothing and footwear retailers, 2018-19
- Discounting continues to play a major role in sales volume
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- Figure 11: Growth in sales volumes, all retailers, clothing and footwear retailers, 2018-19
- Inflation goes down again in August
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- Figure 12: Inflation: Clothing and footwear and CPIH, January 2018 - August 2019
- Consumer spending on clothing and footwear has held up well
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- Figure 13: Specialists sales relative to all spending on clothing and footwear, 2000-2019
- Current state of the market leaders
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- Figure 14: Leading clothing specialists, share of all spending on clothing, 2018
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- Figure 15: Leading clothing and footwear specialists: change in market shares, 2014-18
- The clothing industry and circular fashion
- Where to next?
Launch Activity and Innovations
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- Asda launches second-hand pop-up shop
- Flannels opens first London store
- New Look launches vegan collection
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Footwear retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Music and video goods retailing
- Online shopping
- Health & beauty retailing
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Convenience stores
- UK: McColl Q3 sales fall 2.2%
- UK: Nisa rolls out self-service checkouts
- Grocers
- UK: Aldi
- …loses court battle over look-a-like make-up line
- …to be the first to scrap plastic on tinned tuna
- UK: Asda sales benefit from late falling Easter
- UK: Lidl reminds its suppliers to cover no-deal Brexit costs
- UK: Morrison plans closure of four branches risking 400 jobs
- UK: Sainsbury’s launches Hero themed collector cards promo with Disney
- UK: Tesco to ban brands from its shelves that use excessive plastic packaging
- UK: Waitrose & Partners to be the first supermarket to sell pullet eggs
- Off-licences
- UK: Former boss John Colley to return to Majestic Wine
News Analysis – Clothing and Footwear
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- UK: Ann Summers secures rent deals on 95 shops
- UK: Arcadia
- …posts huge losses in latest full-year results
- …US landlords drop CVA challenges against Arcadia
- UK: Coach owner, Tapestry posts sales of $1.5bn in Q4
- UK: Guess second-quarter net revenue reaches £557.69 million
- UK: H&M
- …teams up with brand Richard Allan
- …demands turnover-rents from landlords to cut costs
- …launches music partnership as part of new loyalty scheme
- UK: Monsoon Accessorize faces legal challenge to its CVA
- UK: Primark
- …full-year results rise 3%
- …plans to roll out food and drink formats
- …to train 160,000 farmers as part of its Sustainable Cotton Programme
- UK: Pull & Bear opens new larger store in Liverpool ONE
- UK: Reiss H1 sales rise 23.7%
- UK: River Island seeks to cut rents by 40%
- UK: Superdry appoints IMG as new licensing partner
- UK: Ted Baker
- …appoints Next as new childrenswear licensing partner
- …signs licensing deal with Japanese partner Sojitz Infinity
- UK: Trading update from Quiz expects the retailer to return to profits despite tough trading
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Clarks seeks 30% rent reductions
- UK: Dr Martens profits and sales soar
- UK: Office considers 15 store closures
- UK: Puma launches Endorphin Store in Shoreditch London
- UK: Schuh calls in KPMG
- UK: Shoe Zone issues profit warning
- Shopping centres
- UK: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield sees footfall grow over the summer
News Analysis – Mixed goods
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- UK: Poundland
- …releases positive results with revenue growing 3%
- …to trial prices below £1
- Multi-sector retailing
- UK: Halford sales fall 3.2%
- Department stores
- UK: Debenhams seeks counsel from Deloitte as its CVA is challenged by one of its landlords
News Analysis – Household Goods
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- Electrical retailing
- UK: Currys PC to sell Amazon Fire TV’s in UK
- UK: Dixons Carphone posts a rise in like-for-like sales of 2%
- Music and video goods retailing
- UK: HMV to open giant concept store in Birmingham
- Furniture retailing
- UK: Dunhelm celebrates 40 years of trading and sees 10.7% rise in sales
- UK: Emma Mattress reveals partnership with John Lewis
- UK: Giorgetti, Italian furniture retailer opens first UK store
- UK: Laura Ashley posts a pre-tax loss of £14.3m
News Analysis – Online shopping
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- UK: Amazon
- …opens its first Clicks & Mortar store in Scotland
- …under fire for non-recyclable packaging
- UK: Angling Direct sees sales grow 21%
- UK: ASOS
- …asks its suppliers for discounts
- …criticised for labelling women's size 14 as XL
- UK: Boohoo raises full-year outlook
- UK: Shop Direct to sell Topshop lines for the first time
- UK: MySale seeks £10m funding from share placing
- Health & beauty retailing
- UK: Superdrug bucks high street trend of store closures with 13 new stores
News Analysis – Other Retail
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- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Card Factory see sales rise
- UK: Totally Wicked products available at WHSmith stores
- UK: WHSmith
- …opens first UK InMotion store
- …releases a positive pre-close trading update
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: JD Sports posts 46.9% increase in group sales
- UK: Sports Direct closes eight Jack Wills stores and warns of more closures
- Jewellers
- UK: Links London in the race to find a buyer
- UK: Watches of Switzerland surpasses £200m mark in Q1 results
- Toys and games retailing
- UK: Toy specialist Hawkin’s Bazaar up for sale
News Analysis – Economy
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- UK: BRC figures for August flatlines
- UK: Prominent retailers come together demanding kinder business rates
- UK: Retail sales climb 3.7% in July
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