Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Last year saw the intensification of pre-existing trends in the needs and aspirations of UK shoppers. The relatively good performance of the food sector against the non food sector is one example, and is consistent with UK consumers’ growing emphasis on the quality of the food they consume, and in trading up to ‘better’ options, for a combination of health and feel good reasons.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
At the beginning of 2007 retailers had just enjoyed a much better than expected Christmas and many banks were prepared to commit large sums of money to highly leveraged retail transactions. As a consequence prices being paid by venture capitalists (VC) were high.
By the second half of 2007 the picture looked very different as the credit crunch developed. With a reduction in institutional liquidity in the leveraged finance markets the volume of transactions supported by banks fell, especially at the higher end of the market.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
2007 was a tougher year for retailers than many before it, especially for the non-food sector. Right from the off, we feared that the outlook for the year looked poor.
A heavy cost base continued, with swinging increases in both utility prices and business rates particularly in quarter 1. Thankfully though, the rate of growth was slowing, after the onslaught of double-digit price inflation in fuel costs of 2006.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Fairtrade retailing is a defininte trend for the future, according to figures published by the Fairtrade
Foundation. Fairtrade products retailed for an estimated £493 million in 2007, a staggering 81 per cent increase on sales in 2006 of £273 million across all retail sectors.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Retailers are most worried about the credit crunch and the growth of online retailing, according to a new survey. Property consultancy Hartnell Taylor Cook LLP found that 65 per cent of retailers fear the effects for the next nine to 12 months on business of the credit crunch, with 59 per cent citing the growth of online retailing, and 42 per cent naming additional retail space coming on to the market as their concern.
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