Table of Contents
Analyst Comment
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- The Internet and the high street
- Disasters
- But spending is increasing
- Common threads
- Volumes under threat
- Light at the end of the tunnel?
The Month in UK Retailing
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- Clothing retailing
- Adams finds buyer
- Alexon
- …receives takeover approach
- …then ends takeover talks
- Ethel Austin faces hedge funds takeover
- Gap to launch Banana Republic in UK
- Marchpole buys Greenmark for £3 million
- Matalan axes 100 jobs
- Monsoon sees sales plummet
- Phase Eight sold for £51.5m
- Mixed goods retailing
- Woolworths
- …launches online travel site
- …and wins supply deal with Virgin
- …but faces OFT investigation
- Multi-sector retailing
- John Lewis
- …plans huge expansion
- …and joins chase for the green pound
- M&S
- …hires food police
- …launches bottle jacket
- …and wins tax ruling
- Department stores
- Former HoF deputy to get Monsoon trial
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher reports FY success as B&Q rebounds in Q4
- Electrical retailing
- DSG CEO warns of fewer high street shops
- Music and video goods retailing
- Buyer found for Music Zone
- Carpet retailing
- Carpetright posts flat like-for-likes
- Furniture retailing
- Land of Leather struggles through Q2
- Home shopping
- Baugur and Hunter plan 'mini Amazon'
- Dream Direct issues profit warning
- Health and beauty retailing
- Body Shop like-for-likes increase in second half
- Boots offers Viagra for Valentines
- Superdrug offers private label for black women
- Book and stationery retailing
- Stationery Box enters administration
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- JJB
- …sees founder sells £50m share
- …but faces Which? lawsuit
- Sports World
- ...mulls float
- …before Ashley cancels dividend
- …then confirms float
- …and reveals he’ll relinquish leadership
- Garden centres
- Blooms of Bressingham
- …bought by Hunter for £30m
- …who looks to create a gardening revolution
- Dobbies reports solid growth
Executive Appointments
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- Argos recruits ex-Safeway director
- B&Q hires multichannel director
- Baugur
- …appoints e-commerce head
- …and promotes Sigurdsson for global role
- Bhs appoints director of marketing
- Blow for Harrods
- Delorme to replace Hislop at Habitat
- HMV promotes Myers
- HoF cuts back womenswear buying dept
- Jardine joins Clarks
- Lee Cooper CEO to leave
- Marks & Spencer
- ...set to lose key directors
- …and tries to keep retail director
- McKeon departs Warehouse and Principles
- MFI turns to Sainsbury's GM chief for revival
- Monsoon
- …to trial to former HoF deputy
- …but sees deal collapse
- Murray joins TK Maxx
- New appointments at East
- New Look signs Horspool
- Peacocks' finance director leaves
- Pets at Home appoints buying director
- Phones4u appoints non-executive chairman
- Rosebys hunt for new CEO
- Squires shuffles managers
- Tesco seeks global marketing chief
- Thomas promoted at John Lewis
- Wyevale appoints Knight to board
Product Development – Meals and Meal Centres
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- Asda
- Marks & Spencer
- Morrisons
- Sainsbury’s
- Somerfield
- Tesco
- Waitrose
Advertising News
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- New campaigns
- Asda campaign enrages M&S
- Moss dresses Arsenal team for Carling Cup final
- Grattan to sponsor Celebrity Mum of the Year
- Whole Foods unveils slogan for UK
- B&Q campaign
- Holland & Barrett axe Kim Wilde
- Aldi promotes UK wines
- SimplyBe in DRTV drive
- Figleaves and Play in Valentine's offer
- HoF to rebrand
- Fortnum launches customer magazine
- Superdrug to publish customer magazine
- John Lewis delays brand campaign
- M&S adds a bit of Klass
- Asda to promote "common sense" retailing
- Burberry withdraws Bafta sponsorship
- Argos in email catalogue promotion
- Sainsbury's to launch Comic Relief campaign
- Drew Barrymore adds golden touch to New Look
- Account gains/losses
- Morrisons seeks agency for digital task
- HMV to consolidate media accounts
- Ambergreen to handle Carphone Warehouse task
- Harrods seeks new agency for online
- Coty Prestige searching for an agency
- Oddbins picks M2M to handle online brief
- Vodafone Retail strengthens relationship with Dare
- Staples in UK media review
- Agency.com extends Ikea influence
- Sunglass Hut appoints Wolff Olins for revamp
- Zenith expected to keep Superdrug account
Retail Advertising Review
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- Advertising expenditure
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- Figure 1: Total advertising expenditure by all advertisers (£m), December 2002-December 2006
- Figure 2: Total advertising expenditure by all retail advertisers (£m), December 2002-December 2006
- Use of media
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- Figure 3: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (%), December 2005 and December 2006
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- Figure 4: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (£m), December 2005 and December 2006
- Top 25 retail advertisers
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- Figure 5: Top 25 retailers by adspend (£), November 2006-December 2006
- Food
- Furniture
- Variety stores
- Others
- Nielsen Media Research/Definitions
Retail Sales and Inflation
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- Retail sales
- Office for National Statistics
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- Figure 6: Retail sales trends: January 2006-January 2007
- Figure 7: Non seasonally adjusted % value change on previous year, January 2006-January 2007
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- Figure 8: Seasonally adjusted % volume change on previous year, December 2005-December 2006
- Significant features of the latest ONS statistics
- Confederation of British Industry
- British Retail Consortium/KPMG
- Retail price inflation trends
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- Figure 9: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: January 2006-January 2007
- Figure 10: Annual percentage change in retail price index for selected product groups: January 2006-January 2007
- Retail Prices Index
- Consumer Prices Index
- British Retail Consortium: Shop Price Index
Sector Analysis – Food and Drink Retailing
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 11: Food and drink retailers, sales trends, 1997-2006
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- Figure 12: Food and drink retailers as % all retail sales: 1997-2006
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 13: Indices of retail prices for product categories (food & drink), Jan 2001-Jan 2007
- Sales by sub-sector
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- Figure 14: Food and drink retailers: Breakdown of sales by sub-sector, 2000-06
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 15: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories (£m), 1999-2005*
- Food & drink retailers: latest trends
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- Figure 16: UK food retailers top 20 market shares, 2005
- Competition Commission
- Tesco
- Sainsbury’s
- Asda
- Morrisons
- Elsewhere
Sector News Review: Food and Drink Retailing
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- September
- Bakers (retail)
- Thorntons sees profits fall
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-op replaces 'divi' to entice customers
- Convenience stores
- OFT may investigate Nisa/Costcutter
- Grocers
- Asda
- …announces ‘green’ conference
- …looks to premium shoppers
- …and signs up Flintoffs
- Sainsbury's
- …aims to close in on Tesco
- …announces ‘green’ packaging move
- …and will sponsor Yahoo! Answers
- Lidl offers cut-price air fares
- Tesco
- …launches Tesco Direct, upmarket clothing line
- …trials TV channel
- …bows to crisp makers' demand
- …and sees new furniture catalogue delayed
- Morrison back in the black
- October
- Co-ops (Retail)
- Co-op records great half-year
- Convenience stores
- Nisa-Today abandons Costcutter merger
- Grocers
- Asda hires Bendel to revamp image
- Kwik Save buys 45 Somerfield stores
- Mysupermarket.co.uk claims to slash shopping bills
- Sainsbury's
- …forgoes profit to save endangered fish
- …buys five more Somerfield stores
- …as “recovery remains on track”
- Somerfield to undergo overhaul
- Tesco
- …sees supermarket rivals gang up
- …eyes Italy as India decision looms
- …posts £1bn+ profit in first half
- …launches software
- …and promotes sensible Christmas drinking
- Suppliers refuse to give evidence to grocery inquiry
- November
- Bakers (retail)
- Greggs’ like-for-likes hit by weather
- Grocers
- Aldi moves upmarket
- Asda
- …launches first 'zero waste' store
- …to expand online, Living
- Tesco's
- …Dunhumby joins with Casino
- …announces clothing investment
- Sainsbury's
- …continues to shine
- …saves £40 million insourcing IT
- Morrisons reveals £22m store disposal profit
- Off-licences
- Majestic reveals majestic first half
- December
- Bakers (retail)
- Greggs reveals like-for-likes rise, appoints Reynolds
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-op
- … reveals 'divi' payout details
- … begins merger talks with United Co-op
- Grocers
- Aldi targets aggressive UK growth
- Asda
- …to roll-out pharmacies across UK
- … finds new stores aren't so Essential
- Primark, Asda and Tesco accused of using ‘slave labour’
- Tesco
- … targets 80,000 with discount, promotes Neville-Rolfe
- … plans largest UK supermarket
- … introduces online sale of clothes
- … reports strong Q3 sales
- … gets Makro Malaysia
- … faces PR nightmare over Suffolk strangler suspect
- Sainsbury's goes bananas on Fairtrade
- January
- Bakers (retail)
- Greggs’ likes-for-likes up for Xmas
- Thorntons rebounds after difficult Q1
- Co-ops (retail)
- Co-operative Group enjoys soaring Xmas sales
- Grocers
- Asda
- …launches into furniture market
- …and cuts petrol prices
- “Recovery on track,” says Sainsbury’s
- Tesco
- …surpasses festive forecasts
- …kicks off 2007 price war
- …promises 'green consumption revolution'
- …and moves into house-building
- Supermarkets
- …escape crackdown
- …as BRC calls for end to enquiry
- Morrisons
- …posts Christmas like-for-likes increase
- …and prepares to axe logo
- Off-licences
- A Majestic Christmas
- February
- Bakers (retail)
- Thorntons H1 profits slip, sales flat
- Co-ops (retail)
- Merger creates world's largest co-operative group
- Convenience stores
- Londis piles pressure on franchisees
- Grocers
- Asda
- …sells £9 DVD player
- …to sell electricals online
- …returns to 1950s packaging
- …is condemned for new size-zero range
- …and cuts the price of a dozen roses to £2
- Kwik Save
- …rescued by property company
- …and secures future
- Morrisons prepares to sell online
- Sainsbury's
- …family sells £200m shares sparking takeover rumours
- …is linked with further takeover speculation
- …as a bidding war looms
- …with Leighton lined up to run the company
- …but a fight may be on the cards
- …as Lord Sainsbury regains control of shares
- …as Qatar eyes a strategic stake
- …and Polygon grabs a slice
- Supermarkets to cut out trans-fats
- Survey claims shoppers prefer Lidl, Aldi to big four
- Tesco
- …denies underhand tactics
- …as employees share £148m windfall
- …looks to boost Direct site
- …rewards green shoppers
- …and scraps refund policy
Sector Advertising Review – Food and Drink
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- Advertising expenditure
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- Figure 17: Total advertising expenditure by food retailers, December 2002-December 2006
- Use of media
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- Figure 18: Use of media by food retailers and all retailers (%), December 2005 and December 2006
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- Figure 19: Use of media by food retailers and all retailers (£), December 2005 and December 2006
- Top ten food retail advertisers
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- Figure 20: Top ten food retailers by adspend, December 2005 and December 2006
- Retailer focus
- Tesco
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- Figure 21: Tesco, media use by adspend and as share of total, December 2005-December 2006
- Figure 22: Tesco, top brands by adspend, December 2006
- Sainsbury’s
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- Figure 23: Sainsbury’s, media use by adspend and as share of total, December 2005-December 2006
- Figure 24: Sainsbury’s, top brands by adspend, December 2006
- Asda
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- Figure 25: Asda, media use by adspend and as share of total, December 2005-December 2006
- Figure 26: Asda, top brands by adspend, December 2006
- Wm Morrison
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- Figure 27: Wm Morrison, media use by adspend and as share of total, December 2005-December 2006
- Figure 28: Wm Morrison, top brands by adspend, December 2006
- Nielsen Media Research/Definitions
Report Focus: Portable Technology Retailing
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- Consumers: who, where and why
- Market worth over £3 billion
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- Figure 29: UK retail sales of portable technology, at current prices, 2001-06
- What consumers think
- Portable technology: Gadgets and spending for fun
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- Figure 30: UK consumer expenditure incl. VAT on portable technology compared with other spending categories, at current prices, 2001-06
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- Figure 31: UK consumer expenditure incl. VAT on portable technology compared with other spending categories, at current prices, percentage increase, 2001-06
- Total market sees a boom
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- Figure 32: UK retail sales of portable technology, at current and constant 2001 prices, 2001-06
- The market by product area
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- Figure 33: Estimated retail sales of portable technology, by product area, 2006
- Who owns what?
- Mobile phones
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- Figure 34: Mobile phone ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Smartphones
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- Figure 35: Smartphone ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- MP3 players
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- Figure 36: MP3 player ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- MP4 players
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- Figure 37: MP4 player ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Personal DAB radios
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- Figure 38: DAB radio onwership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Personal CD players
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- Figure 39: Personal CD player ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Portable games consoles
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- Figure 40: Portable games console ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Portable DVD player
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- Figure 41: Portable DVD player/TV ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Laptop PCs
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- Figure 42: Laptop PC ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Personal digital assistants
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- Figure 43: Personal digital assistant (PDA) ownership, gifting and plans to buy, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- The competitive environment
- Specialist electricals under pressure
- Everyone else wants a bite
- Networks put the squeeze on
- Profiles of leading portable technology retailers
- DSG International
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- Figure 44: DSG International Plc: Group financial performance, 2002-06
- Comet
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- Figure 45: Comet: Sales and outlets, 2002-06
- Mobile phone specialists
- The Carphone Warehouse
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- Figure 46: The Carphone Warehouse Plc: Group financial performance, 2002-06
- Figure 47: The Carphone Warehouse Plc: UK financial performance, turnover, operating profits and margin, 2001-05
- Phones 4u
- Attitudes towards portable technology
- Teens are the techaholics
- 35-44s and ABs price-conscious
- Men and ABs more confident online
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- Figure 48: Attitudes towards portable technology, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Women and older consumers confused by choice
- Teens love the look
- Additional features a plus
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- Figure 49: Attitudes towards portable technology, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- Women and over-35s like demonstrations
- Try-outs favoured by all
- Staff recommendations loved by teens
- Trade-ins appeal across the board
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- Figure 50: Attitudes towards portable technology, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- ABs value staff knowledge
- Under-35s want catalogues
- Older customers and women want helplines
- Interest-free credit a plus for C2s and Ds
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- Figure 51: Consumer attitudes towards portable technology, by gender, age and socio-economic group, November 2006
- What does the future hold for portable technology retailing?
- Further growth of online sales
- Increasing technological convergence
- The rise of mobile Internet
- Greater demands on the retail environment
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- Figure 52: Market size and forecast of portable technology, at current and constant 2006 prices, 2001-11
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