Retail Futures: DIY Q3
2010

Retail Futures: DIY Q3 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 trending upwards

• Driven by higher inflation in food & grocery.
• Volumes continue to improve - returning to growth in non-food - though this is against extremely weak comparatives.

Non-food growth improves.

• Nonetheless, clothing & footwear and health & beauty remain the only non-food sectors experiencing growth.
• driven by inflation, with the return of VAT to 17.5%, the weakness of sterling and rising cotton prices.

Home related sectors continue to struggle.

• The housing market remains stagnant and is showing no imminent signs of meaningful uplift.
• Weakening consumer confidence, high unemployment and squeezed disposable income is further impacting discretionary demand.

Reasons to Purchase

• What impact will public sector cuts have on the retail sector?
• How will the homewares sector perform in 2011, compared with total retail?
• What effect will inflationary pressures have on the homewares sector?

• Setting The Scene
  • Economic synopsis
  • Retail synopsis
• Total Retail Expenditure Analysis
  • Overview
  • Growth drivers this quarter
  • Growth trends
• Diy & Gardening Expenditure Analysis
  • Overview
  • Growth drivers this quarter
  • Growth trends
  • Sector vs. Total Retail
  • Forecast data
    • Total sector forecasts
    • Category forecasts
• Appendix
  • Methodology
  • Principle sources
  • Definitions