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Analyst Comment
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- Developments in European organic and wholefoods retailing
- Carrefour versus Auchan
- Organic supply and demand
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- Figure 1: New food product launches featuring an ‘organic’ claim, 2009/10 – 2011/12
- Organic retailing elsewhere
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- Figure 2: Whole Foods Market, Piccadilly Circus (London), May 2012
- What this means
Headlines for the Month
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- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-Sector Retailing
- Electrical Goods Retailing
- DIY Retailing
- Health & Beauty Retailing
Retail Sales Review
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- Key points
- France
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- Figure 3: France: Retail sales, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 4: France: Inflation, 2011-12
- Germany
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- Figure 5: Germany: Retail Sales trends, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 6: Germany: Inflation, 2011-12
- Italy
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- Figure 7: Italy: Retail sales trends, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 8: Italy: Inflation, 2011-12
- Netherlands
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- Figure 9: The Netherlands: Retail sales trends, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 10: The Netherlands: Inflation, 2011-12
- Spain
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- Figure 11: SPain: Retail sales trends, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 12: Spain: Inflation 2011-12
- UK
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- Figure 13: UK: Retail sales trends, 2011-12
- Inflation
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- Figure 14: UK: Inflation, 2011-12
News Analysis
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- Grocers
- France: Carrefour’s fortunes to be revived in three years
- France: Casino and GroupeGaleries Lafayette look to agree on Monoprix deal
- Greece: Carrefour sells stake in joint venture to Marinopoulos
- Switzerland: Migros' Le Shop in new drive-in launch
- UK: Aldi to improve and extend own-label offering
- UK: Asda
- …opens George pop-up shop
- …opens its first George franchise
- …signs deal to support rapid growth of Asda Direct
- …to launch financial services
- UK: Booker acquires Makro UK
- UK: Iceland
- …reports 18.5% rise in profits
- …to present findings of customer feedback programme
- UK: Morrisons
- …explores opportunities to expand convenience stores
- …to lose group finance director
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …purchases HMV’s stake in e-book business
- …reports sales boost
- UK: Spar to be new supplier to People's Supermarket
- UK: Fortnum & Mason hires new retail director
- UK: Tesco
- …and Dobbies submit plans for joint store
- …buys WE7 digital music platform
- …looks for UK commercial director
- …reports decline in sales
- …reshuffles clothing business again
- …to open 24 hours on Sundays during Olympics
- …to use Clubcard data for online strategy
- …works with Facebook on promotion
- UK: Supermarkets to launch mobile police stations
- UK: Tesco and Morrisons continue to lose out on market share
- UK: The Co-operative
- …completes roll-out of replenishment system
- …launches tie-up with Amazon lockers
- UK: Whole Foods UK reports increasing losses
- UK: Kiddicare receives new design concept
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine reports profit and sales boost
- Clothing retailing
- Denmark: BTX Group to sell off young fashion brands
- Europe: Otto to launch Material Girl clothing line in September
- Europe: Uniqlo appoints European CEO
- France: Yves Saint Laurent becomes Saint Laurent Paris
- Greece: H&M identifies growth opportunities in Greece
- Italy: Prada reports strong sales and profits in first quarter
- Russian Federation: Lee Cooper to expand in Russia
- Sweden: H&M
- …reports 12% increase in sales for first six months
- ...to collaborate with Maison Martin Margiela
- UK: Bhs poaches M&S menswear trading director
- UK: Boux Avenue plans overseas expansion
- UK: Cecil Gee to leave the high street
- UK: Coast opens doors on London flagship
- UK: Dalvey looks to expand store portfolio
- UK: Gio Goi closes all high street stores
- UK: H&M launches pop-up sportswear shops
- UK: Inditex buys UK flagship store for Zara
- UK: Issa London to launch e-commerce site
- UK: Jaeger poaches Aurora Fashions former president
- UK: Jigsaw takes over a third of Kew 159’s store portfolio
- UK: Kookaï lose sales but reduce losses
- UK: Matalan reports falling EBITDA
- UK: Mulberry
- …expected to report 50% increase in profit
- …reports 54% rise in profits
- UK: New Look
- …extends refinancing
- UK: Quantum Clothing Group acquired by Itochu
- UK: Laura Ashley records 5.4% growth in like-for-likes
- UK: Radley to open first pop-up shop
- UK: Republic to boost footwear offer with dedicated areas
- UK: Superdry to boost e-commerce site and launch mobile app
- UK: Ted Baker reports revenue boost
- UK: The Kooples backs out of UK property deals
- UK: Tom Ford to open first UK standalone store
- UK: Topshop
- …appoints former Burberry vice-president of PR as chief marketing officer
- …to collaborate with JW Anderson
- UK: Weird Fish seeks to boost presence
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Dr Martens
- …hopes for £200 million bidder.
- …may be acquired by Russian billionaire
- UK: Jimmy Choo reports pre-tax profits rise
- UK: Jones Group to expand in Europe
- Department Stores
- Germany: Debenhams launches German website
- UK: Allders fall into administration
- UK: Debenhams
- …reports sales rise as margins are hit
- …to introduce next day delivery in 2013
- …to launch free in-store wifi
- UK: Fenwick’s Bond Street store managing director passes away
- UK: Harvey Nichols to expand ecommerce
- UK: John Lewis looks to extend its click-and-collect service by partnering with corner shops
- DIY retailing
- Germany: Hornbach reports weak first quarter
- UK: B&Q launches new services as part of Energy Saving initiative
- UK: Topps Tiles
- …reports like-for-like sales up 2.1%
- …to launch new flagship
- UK: Wickes to invest £10 million in lower prices
- Multi-Sector Retailing
- UK: Home Retail Group post mixed quarterly results
- UK: Next to open second superstore
- Mixed goods
- UK: Marks & Spencer
- …Bostock to leave
- …confirms Bostock's departure and reports sales down in Q1
- UK: Poundland
- …reports record results
- …tests contactless payment
- UK: Wellchester to close down
- Miscellaneous specialists
- UK: Halfords looks to explore fast-delivery options
- UK: Lonely Planet to open first UK store
- UK: Mothercare UK retail head to exit
- UK: Thorntons needs to change strategy, says former chairman
- Electrical Goods Retailing
- Europe: Kesa reports fall in full year revenue
- UK: Dixons reports rising profits and new strategic priorities
- UK: Maplin invests £40m into business
- UK: Phones 4u reports boost in sales, but fall in earnings
- Music and Video Goods Retailing
- UK: Digital video sales overtake Blu-ray
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright reports fall in profit
- UK: United Carpets commences store closure review
- Furniture retailing
- UK: BrightHouse EBITDA up 12.8%
- UK: DFS reports market share growth but sales fall
- UK: Oka reports rising profits
- Home Shopping
- Netherlands: Bol.com offers retailers chance to sell through its website
- UK: Asos
- …sales up 31% in Q1
- …to lose Superdry clothing brand from site
- UK: Boodles launches new e-commerce site for international distribution
- UK: Celtic Sheepskin to launch international websites
- UK: eBay appoints Sainsbury’s digital and cross channel director as vice president
- UK: Findel enjoys increase in pre-tax profit
- UK: IndiaCoco launched as new online kidswear store
- UK: N Brown sees womenswear sales hit by wet weather
- UK: Ocado
- …reports 12% increase in sales
- …to launch category-specific general merchandise sites
- UK: Shop Direct acquires banking boss as new chief executive
- UK: The Hut reports 71% increase in sales
- UK: Zalando hopes for strong growth
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Cath Kidston expands its UK store portfolio
- UK: Dunelm reports like-for-like sales rise
- UK: Clas Ohlson opens UK transactional website
- Health and Beauty retailing
- Austria: Schlecker to be axed in Austria after German demise
- Germany: Ihr Platz and Schlecker XL acquisition unsuccessful
- Germany: Rossmann drugstore reports 12.8% increase in sales
- UK: Boots
- …and Walgreens global strategic partnership
- …to return to UK stock market
- UK: Chanel to open pop-up fragrance and beauty store
- UK: Holland & Barrett reports rising profit as Julian Graves goes under
- UK: Savers looks to be back in black after turnaround
- Sports and Leisure Goods Retailing
- UK: JD Sports expects Black losses to total £10 million for 2012
- UK: JJB Sports
- …sales fall as Euro 2012 fails to increase spending
- …signs exclusive deal with Tekkers
- UK: Pentland Group boosted by international sales
- Toys and Games Retailing
- UK: Disney Store reports further losses
- UK: Ludendo close to snapping up Hamleys
- Garden Centres
- UK: The Garden Centre Group to develop more concessions
- Books and Stationery
- UK: Clinton Cards
- …to be revamped
- …to lose 122 stores
- UK: WHSmith reports decline in sales
- Economy
- UK: BRC: June retail sales boosted by Jubilee
- UK: Co-op economy outperforms UK’s for fourth consecutive year
- UK: Consumer confidence flat in June despite Jubilee expectations
- UK: Government fuel duty freeze "helpful" for retailers
- UK: Olympics to boost economy by £5.33bn
- UK: ONS: Retail sales values and volumes increase in May
- UK: Rate of inflation fell in May
- UK: Shop price inflation falls to lowest rate in over two years
- UK: Three quarters of retailers begin summer Sale
- UK: Welsh Retail Consortium launched
Retailing in the Asia-Pacific Region: India
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- Key facts
- The Indian retail scene
- World’s largest democracy
- Economic reform
- Census 2011
- Regional limitations
- Economy beginning to slow
- Half-hearted liberalisation
- Organising retail
- India in figures
- Population
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- Figure 15: India: Population, by gender, 2011
- Figure 16: India: Estimated population, 2006-11
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- Figure 17: India: Population projections, by age group, 2006, 2011 and 2016
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- Figure 18: India: Projected population, by region, 2008-10; and provisional census population, by region, 2011
- Economy
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- Figure 19: India: Gross domestic product, 2004/05-2010/11
- Figure 20: India: Consumer price index, 2007-11
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- Figure 21: India: Consumer expenditure, 2000/01-2010/11
- Figure 22: India: Consumer expenditure, by category (inc sales tax), 2006/07-2009/10
- The Indian retail sector
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- Figure 23: India: Estimated retail sales, 2007-11
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- Figure 24: India: Leading identified retailers, 2010/11-2011/12
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