Retail Market Research

Online sales growth is continuing to outpace overall retail sales growth in the US, as consumers spend more time online and subsequently become more accustomed to shopping online. This report will focus on how consumers are finding products, including a closer look at food and drink products and ...

The retail sector appears to be in turmoil.  There has been an unprecedented number of failures or retailers reported to be in trouble just in the first quarter of 2018.  It would be easy to go on to say that the whole retail sector, and particularly the store-based sector, is in deep trouble.

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“As the only department store in Spain, El Corte Inglés is facing growing competition from more agile and lower-priced specialist retailers. In order to compete El Corte Inglés needs to broaden its appeal and move away from a reliance on older and wealthier customers. It also needs to stand out by ...

“There are signs of the beginnings of a recovery in the German department stores sector. New ownership and a more focussed management now shorn of too many diversifications are a good start. The consumer research for this report shows that the stores are still valued for many of the things that a ...

“There is enormous variation between countries in the development of department stores. At one extreme there is Spain, where the only department stores is the country’s leading non-food retailer. At the other extreme there are countries like Austria, where the sector scarcely exists. Italy has a ...

“Birth rates are low, and the number of childbearing age mothers continues to decrease. Yet the mother & baby products market continues to grow well, thanks to parents spending more, per capita, on their babies as they seek better quality, safer products. Slowing growth is driving ever-increasing ...

“The department store sector in Italy saw weak growth in 2017as both Coin and Rinascente are losing share of spending to specialist retailers. Both department stores need to broaden their appeal to attract less affluent and younger consumers. While the Italian online market is still ...

“The French department stores are heavily reliant on their Parisian flagship stores and on tourists. As a result they were hit hard by the downturn in foreign visitors that followed the terrorist attacks in Paris (November 2015) and Nice (June 2016). The format is much less important to retailing ...

“The UK department store sector remains challenging, with a number of the leading players struggling to carve out their niche in a crowded retail market. Innovation has been centred on creating a compelling in-store environment and whilst this is important, research suggests that department store ...