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Analyst Comment: Reviewing E-commerce Participation in 2013
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- Figure 1: Proportion of all individuals who have made an online purchase of any goods or services in the last three months, 2008-13
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- Figure 2: Proportion of all individuals who have made an online purchase of food/groceries in the last 12 months, 2008-13
- Figure 3: Proportion of all individuals who have made an online purchase of clothing/sports goods in the last 12 months, 2008-13
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- Figure 4: Proportion of all individuals who have made an online purchase of electronic equipment in the last 12 months, 2008-13
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European Retail Sales
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- Key points
- Retail sales
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- Figure 5: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales value growth, 2012-13
- Figure 6: Major European economies: Year-on-year retail sales volume growth, 2012-13
- Inflation
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- Figure 7: Major European economies: All items CPI, 2013
- Figure 8: Major European economies: Food price inflation, 2013
Beauty Retailing – Europe
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- Yves Rocher Groupe
- What we think
- Bolstering store presence in its biggest market
- Sluggish online sales
- Authentic natural beauty products
- Travel retail expansion
- ‘Most popular beauty site’
- Company background
- Company performance
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- Figure 9: Yves Rocher Groupe: Group financial performance, 2009-13
- Figure 10: Yves Rocher Groupe: Estimated number of stores in selected countries, 2011-13
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- Figure 11: Yves Rocher Groupe: Sales by distribution channel, percentage, 2012
- Retail offering
Headlines for the Month
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- Convenience stores
- Grocers
- Clothing retailing
- Multi-sector retailing
- Department stores
- DIY retailing
- Electrical retailing
- Home shopping
- Shopping centres
- Economy
News Analysis – Food and drink
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- Bakers
- UK: Greggs cuts staff after sales growth
- Co-ops
- UK: Co-operative Food reports strong Christmas performance
- Convenience stores
- Spain: Alcampo to supply Spanish BP stores
- UK: Nisa Retail reports strong Christmas sales
- Grocers
- France: Carrefour acquires Rast supermarkets
- Italy: Conad annual sales increase
- UK: Asda trials new format
- UK: Booths
- …introduces brand price-matching scheme
- …reports best ever festive trading
- UK: Morrisons
- …employee arrested for insider trading
- …like-for-likes fall
- … launches online shopping
- UK: Over half the country shops at Aldi and Lidl
- UK: Sainsbury’s
- …blames tough sales environment for flat like-for-likes
- …Freefrom food range sees boost in pre-Christmas sales
- …to stop selling DVDs
- UK: Tesco
- …launches healthy living brand
- …acquires Lazada
- …glitch locks NatWest and RBS credit cards
- …reports a fall in like-for-likes over Christmas
- …to launch current account
- …to test Indian market
- UK: Waitrose
- …predicts South American food boom
- …records strong Christmas trading figures
- …sales up as customers search for interesting Christmas food
- Off-licences
- UK: Majestic Wine reveals strong Christmas figures
- Other food specialists
- UK: Holland & Barrett increase store openings
News Analysis – Non-food
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- Clothing retailing
- Europe: Inditex posts sales rise
- France: Primark opens first French store
- UK: Edinburgh Woollen Mill appoints new managing director of Peacocks
- UK: Fat Face
- …eyes potential flotation
- …positive after Christmas trading
- UK: Jigsaw reports strong Christmas trading figures
- UK: Joules opens store at Gatwick airport
- UK: Karen Millen profits decline
- UK: Moss Bros witnesses “encouraging” sales
- UK: New Look receives Christmas boost to like-for-likes
- UK: Next raises forecasts on the back of bumper Christmas
- UK: Paul Smith sees profits fall
- UK: Retailers increase discounts in last-minute push before Christmas
- UK: SuperGroup records strong progress
- UK: Ted Baker reports solid Christmas figures
- UK: TK Maxx accused of misleading customers
- UK: TM Lewin starts international push
- Footwear retailing
- UK: Barratts
- …receives £5m rescue offer from Pavers
- …remaining Barratts stores closed
- Mixed goods retailing
- UK: Poundstretcher falls to £3.7m loss
- Multi-sector retailing
- Germany: Forecast rises at Metro Group
- UK: Argos digital stores hit by technical glitches
- UK: M&S
- …outlook gloomy
- …extends discounts on clothing after poor Christmas sales
- …reports disappointing third quarter
- …to make toy packaging gender neutral
- …member of staff refuses alcohol sale
- Department stores
- UK: Debenhams
- …chief financial officer resigns
- …demand discounts from suppliers
- …posts disappointing interim management statement
- UK: Galeries Lafayette in talks to buy House of Fraser
- UK: House of Fraser
- …records best ever Christmas results
- …to appoint advisers for IPO
- UK: John Lewis
- …reports record sales figures
- …sees Christmas sales hit £734 million
- …posts pre-Christmas figures
- …sees strong Christmas and New Year sales growth
- …trials mobile point-of-sale
- UK: Stacey Cartwright moves to Harvey Nichols
- DIY retailing
- Europe: Hornbach Group publish figures for first nine months of 2013/14
- UK: Topps Tiles sees first quarter sales jump
- Electrical retailing
- Europe: Darty reports results for H1 2013/14
- Europe: Dixons completes disposal of Pixmania
- UK: Dixons Retail profits surge
- UK: Maplin opens airport store following strong Christmas trading
- Furniture shops
- UK: CSL rebrands as Sofaworks
- Music and video goods retailing
- UK: HMV to close Islington flagship
- Carpet retailing
- UK: Carpetright profits and sales fall in first-half
- Homewares retailing
- UK: Dunelm TV campaign boosts Q2 sales
- Home shopping
- Germany: Amazon’s German workers to strike
- UK: Betta Living unveils virtual store
- UK: N Brown to open 20 new stores
- UK: Shop Direct hires Sarah Curran
- Health & beauty retailing
- UK: Lush beats high-street Christmas slump
- UK: The Fragrance Shop launches TV marketing campaign
- Book and stationery retailing
- UK: Foyles like-for-likes edge up
- UK: Golden goodbye for Kate Swann
- UK: The Works reports record breaking Christmas trading
- UK: Ryman Group reports strong Christmas
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- UK: Adidas to cut independent accounts
- UK: JD Sports records improvement in like-for-likes
- UK: Sports Direct first-half profits soar
- Miscellaneous SPECIALIST retailing
- UK: Mamas & Papas sees full year profits rise
- UK: Mothercare issues profit warning
- Shopping centres
- France: Carrefour to buy Klepierre malls
- UK: Bluewater debuts midnight shopping
- Economy
- UK: BRC
- …footfall monitor shows decline
- …sales monitor shows "respectable" Christmas trading
- UK: ONS: Positive November retail sales
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