Retail Futures: Online Q4
2010

Retail Futures: Online Q4 2010

Introduction

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.
• This unique service provides constantly updated forecasts than 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.

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.

Food & grocery a focus at Christmas

• Growth expected to rise to 3.7%, the highest this year, despite inflation easing.
• Value for money will be high on the consumer agenda when making promotions

Reasons to Purchase

• What impact will public sector cuts have on the retail sector?
• How will the online market perform in 2011, compared with total retail?
• How will the online market perform over Christmas 2010, compared with total retail?
• What effect will inflationary pressures have on the online market?

• Setting The Scene
  • Economic Synopsis
  • Retail Synopsis
• Total Retail Expenditure Analysis
  • Overview
  • Growth Drivers This Quarter
  • Growth Trends
  • E-Retail Analysis
  • Overview
  • Growth Drivers This Quarter
  • Growth Trends
  • E-Retail vs. Total Retail
  • E-Retail Analysis
  • Forecast Data
  • Total Sector Forecasts
  • Penetration of Online Sales
  • Non-Food Online
  • Penetration of Non-Food Online Sales
  • Food Online
  • Penetration of Food Online Food Sales
• Appendix
  • Methodology
  • Principle Sources
  • Definitions