Retail Futures: Composite Q4
2010

Retail Futures: Composite Q4 2010

Introduction

Verdict Research: Retail Futures is a unique forecasting tool providing dynamic forecasts and analysis of market demand and price pressures every three months. A Sector Summary Report and seven UK sector and two UK channel forecasts are available (Clothing & Footwear, DIY & Gardening, Electricals, Furniture & Floorcoverings, Food & Grocery, Health & Beauty, Homewares, e-Retail, DIY Superstores).

Scope

• Brief review of economic trends and how they impact retail, explaining how we believe key economic metrics will evolve over the next two years.
• Forecasts of how overall retail and retail sectors will fare over the next nine quarters, examining volume, inflation and overall growth rates.
• Category level forecasts are provided to fully inform growth strategies.
• Forecast for online retailing, analysing total online spend, split down into food and non-food.

Highlights

Growth improves in Q3, though remains relatively weak

• Food remains the major driver of growth, though improvements are also seen in non food.
• Total volume growth also improves, though is still low at just 0.5%.

Inflation a major driver

• Increasing to 1.3% in Q3 and trending upwards in Q4
• Clothing & footwear a major driver of this - impacted by the weakness of sterling, rising cotton prices and increased transportation costs.

Clothing & footwear and health & beauty outperform...

• Both remain the only non-food sectors experiencing growth - both heavily driven by inflation.

Reasons to Purchase

• Find out which retail sectors will perform the best at Christmas and build strategies around it.
• This unique service provides constantly updated forecasts that ensures you are making the right decisions, based on the latest data.
• The reliable and accurate data exposes opportunities for growth and is a key operational planning tool to aid tactical and strategic decision-making.
• It allows you to benchmark performance with confidence and set effective targets to help maximise performance.

• Setting The Scene
  • Economic Synopsis
  • Retail Synopsis
• Total Retail Expenditure Analysis
  • Overview
  • Growth Drivers This Quarter
  • Growth Trends
• Retail Sector Expenditure Summary
  • Market Values (Current Prices)
  • £m
  • Growth Rates
  • Market Volumes (2004 Constant Prices)
  • £m
  • Growth Rates
• Retail Sector Expenditure Analysis
  • Food & Grocery
  • Clothing & Footwear
  • Diy & Gardening
  • Diy Superstores
  • Electricals
  • Furniture & Floorcoverings
  • Health & Beauty
  • Homewares
  • E-Retail
• Appendix
  • Methodology
  • Principle Sources
  • Definitions
  • Help & Tips to Use The Quarterly Forecasts
  • Bespoke Forecasts & Consulting