Europe Market Research

This month's UK Retail briefing includes:

• An Analyst comment on the UK Retail sector in turmoil
• On overview of the latest UK Retail sales.
• Sector Focus - Online Retailing - UK.
• Highlights of the latest UK Retail trend observations
• Monthly UK retail news headlines and analysis

This month's European Retail Briefing includes:

• Analyst Comment on Carrefour's new mobile payment app
• An overview of the latest European Retail sales 
• Highlights of the latest Retail trend observations across Europe
• Monthly headlines and retail news across Europe

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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“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 ...

This month's European Retail Briefing includes:

• Analyst Comment on Leclerc to open 200 strong supermarket chain
• An overview of the latest European Retail sales 
• Highlights of the latest Retail trend observations across Europe.
• Monthly headlines and retail news across Europe

This month's UK Retail briefing includes:

• An Analyst comment on New Look and a problem of Mis-diagnosis
• On overview of the latest UK Retail sales.
• Sector Focus - Electrical Retailing - UK.
• Highlights of the latest UK Retail trend observations
• Monthly UK retail news headlines and analysis

“People are still wary about the potential impact of Brexit – particularly when it comes to the cost of living. But people seem able to separate these macro-economic concerns from their own personal financial situation. Unemployment remains at record lows, and while average wages are still ...

“Italy lags a long way behind the rest of Western Europe in retail development and especially in online development. Electricals retailing is still very fragmented across the board and online we estimate that even the leading player via that channel, Amazon, has a market share of under 2%. Change ...

“Consumer spending on electrical goods continued to weaken in 2017 as higher inflation in other product categories led consumers to spend more elsewhere. Online is now the channel of choice for Germans shopping for electricals, with 70% of electrical goods shoppers buying via any device in the ...