Table of Contents
UK Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 3: Retail sales trends, June 2018 – July 2019
- BRC vs ONS
- ‘Small retailers’ versus ‘large retailers’
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- Figure 4: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, July 2017 - October 2019
- John Lewis
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- Figure 5: John Lewis Department Stores: Year-on-Year Growth, January 2018 – October 2019
- Inflation
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- Figure 6: Annual percentage change in the consumer price index for selected product groups, October 2018 - October 2019
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 7: Real wages growth: Wages growth vs inflation, Jan 2016 – Oct 2019
- Consumer confidence
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- Figure 8: Mintel Financial confidence tracker, January 2017 – September 2019
- Looking forward
Sector Focus – Household Goods
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- The sector – what’s included
- The sector in context
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- Figure 9: Major household goods categories, share of sales, 2018
- Figure 10: Spending on household goods products, 2014-18
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- Figure 11: Household goods sectors year on year growth in sales, by quarter, 2015-Q2 2019
- Inflation remains stable
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- Figure 12: Inflation in household goods, % change over 12 months, October 2018-October 2019
- Consumer confidence have held up
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- Figure 13: Spending on the home, actions and intentions, September 2016-October 2019
- Housing market is cooling
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- Figure 14: Number of residential housing transactions over £40,000, 2009-18
- Household goods retail sector
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- Figure 15: Household goods retail sectors y/y growth, October 2018-October 2019
- Where next?
Launch Activity and Innovations
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- UK: Costcutter and Uber Eats partner for grocery delivery deal
- UK: Tesco trials cashier-less shopping
- UK: Harrods opens standalone beauty store at Intu Lakeside
- UK: HMV launches experiential store Vault
- UK: Luxury etailer Xupes opens first retail store in City of London
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing
- Footwear
- Mixed goods
- Multi-sector
- Department stores
- DIY
- Electrical
- Furniture
News Analysis – Food and Drink
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- Grocers
- UK: Aldi launches online toy shop
- UK: Lidl
- …to invest £15bn over the next five years in UK supply chain
- …to roll out electric vehicle chargers to all new store
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …grocery sales fall 0.1%
- …to stop selling fireworks
- UK: Tesco rumoured to be considering launching Finest pop-ups in the lead up to Christmas
- UK: Waitrose to stop selling plastic toys in Christmas crackers from 2020
- Other food specialists
- UK: Cake Box posts 6% rise in half-year sales
News Analysis – Clothing and Footwear
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- UK: All Saints sees topline growth thanks to product-focused strategy
- UK: Bonmarché tumbles into administration placing thousands of jobs at risk
- UK: Burberry launches its first video game
- UK: Forever 21 to liquidate three remaining stores in £30m clearance sale
- UK: Gap Global sees sales fall 7% year on year
- UK: Gieves & Hawkes sees a 5.7% fall in turnover
- UK: Khaadi to close stores in pre-pack deal
- UK: Luke 1977 to expand stores estate
- UK: Matalan sees profits rise 11.3% but profits fall 28.5%
- UK: Next retail sales down 6.3% in Q3 results
- UK: Oasis launches third-party brands online
- UK: Primark sees profits jump by 8%
- UK: Quiz revenues fall 11% in H1 results
- UK: Radley sees £92.9 million in turnover for full year results
- UK: Seasalt posts 29% rise in turnover
- UK: Select returns to operating profit but turnover falls 37.6%
- UK: Superdry revenues drop 11.3%
- UK: Thomas Pink sees operating losses widen to £23.5 million
- UK: Topshop and Topman gets its own logistics warehouse
- UK: Zara UK full year profits halved despite sales rise
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Clarks group sales fall 4% to £1.46 billion
- UK: Dune operating profits fall 21%
- UK: Kurt Geiger revenues increase to £334.7 million
- UK: LK Bennett to close founding store
- UK: Schuh
- …posts pre-tax loss of £6.1 million
- …rolls out footwear recycling scheme
- UK: Shoe Zone reports 0.8% rise in revenues despite profit warning
News Analysis – Mixed Goods
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- UK: Home Bargain posts rising pre-tax profit to £233.3 million
- UK: Mothercare to appoint administrators
- UK: Poundland
- …opens five Pep&Co shop-in-shops
- …rolls out ‘simple’ pricing to all stores
- UK: TK Maxx reports increased sales and profits
- Multi-sector
- UK: M&S
- …sales fall 2.1%
- …launches new online payment service
- …launches own brand halal range
- …makes vegan wine pledge
- Department Stores
- UK: Debenhams secures £50 million in funding to trade over Christmas
- UK: Fenwick posts a loss of £17.3 million
- UK: John Lewis
- …opens click and collect network to third parties
- …trials plastic bag-free stores
- UK: Oxford Street House of Fraser is to be part-converted into offices
- UK: Selfridges to open 45,000 sq ft of commercial space
- UK: Watt Brothers files for administration
News Analysis – Household Goods
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- DIY retailing
- UK: Wickes results climb 8.3% in Q3
- Electrical retailing
- UK: Richer Sounds posts 8.7% rise in sales to £171.2 million
- Furniture
- UK: IKEA sees 8% year on year sales growth
- Homewares
- UK: Dunelm sales rise 5.8%
- UK: H&M Home opens in Bullring centre
News Analysis – Online
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- UK: Amazon rolls out AI-powered fashion search for UK app users
- UK: ASOS ends the ASOS Magazine
- UK: Boohoo collaborate with Coppafeel! in new lingerie collection
- UK: Deliveroo expands its on-demand grocery service to over 200 convenience stores
- UK: Feelunique launches new technology to improve product ingredient transparency
- UK: N Brown returns to profit but sales down 5.4%
- UK: Notonthehighstreet posts a marginal decline in revenues but operating profit nearly doubles
- UK: Shop Direct
- …moves Littlewoods campaign spend to digital-only
- …posts a pre-tax loss of £185.5 million
- UK: Sosandar expects revenues to hit £2.82 million in H1 trading update
- UK: Vente-Privee closes UK business
- UK: Yoox launches enhanced styling tool Yoox Mirror
News Analysis – Other Retail
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- Health & beauty
- UK: Lush launches conveyor belt for new in-store gifting service
- UK: Superdrug launches 30-minute delivery service
- Book and stationery
- UK: The Works record 5.4% rise in total revenue
- UK: WHSmith reveals $400m acquisition of Marshall Retail
- Jewellers
- UK: Links of London goes into administration
- Shopping centres
- UK: Intu remains confident in latest trade update
- Toys and games
- UK: FAO Schwarz opens at Selfridges
- UK: The Entertainer defies high street gloom as sales and profits soar
- Miscellaneous specialist
- UK: Gear4Music posts 16% rise in sales
- UK: Halfords registers a 2.5% fall in pre-tax profits
- UK: Jessops puts jobs at risk as it looks for a rescue deal
News Analysis – Economy
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- UK: BRC posts 0.1% increase in sales for October
- UK: ONS September retail sales rise 3.6%
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