The European Retail Rankings is one of a series of Mintel reports tracking leading retailers. The UK Retail Rankings covers the top 1,000 UK retail fascias. These reports draw on the Retail Interactive Database, Mintel’s information resource on international retailing. All the information in the European Retail Rankings is contained in the database and is updated on
a regular basis.
We focus on the key operational statistics and ratios – sales, profits, store numbers and sales areas. For the most part, we avoid putting in our own estimates. However, there are some companies for which we have no option – very secretive companies, such as Aldi, Lidl or Bauhaus, but also a number of private companies that are slow to publish figures of any sort. Where possible, we work with published data and we make no adjustments to allow for different accounting standards. In practice this means that retail profitability in Germany is probably understated relative to the Netherlands or the UK. But we have no basis to adjust for such discrepancies.
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