11 Apr 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
British retailers have benefited from March's warm weather which led to a jump in non-food retail...Total retail sales were up 3.6% last month (March) compared to March 2011, driven by growth in non ...
total retail sales were down 1.9%.
Stephen Robertson, director general at the BRC, said: "The early ...
to be largely underpinned by food inflation rather than by customers buying more.
"The overall retail ...
07 Mar 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Record viewing figures, big spending retail clients and Google's debut television campaign helped...in 2011 was retail, increasing its investment by 2% year on year, followed by entertainment and leisure ...
06 Mar 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) believes a retail revival remains "illusory" after sales...Non-food performed badly during snow-hit February despite continuing promotions and discounts, contributing to UK retail sales dipping 0.3% on a like-for-like basis from February 2011, according ...
further.
Helen Dickinson, head of retail at KPMG, said: "There are retailers out there who deliver what ...
19 Jan 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Retailers have bucked the climate of gloom surrounding the industry by posting an average like...The average increase was drawn from the Christmas trading updates of 51 retail brands, but must ...
clothing retailer Select has performed best over Christmas with a 17.1% sales increase, according to the figures from Kantar Retail.
Fragrance Shop was the second best performer with a 13.2% increase, while ...
10 Jan 2012
| by Arif Durrani
A late surge in shopping on the high street resulted in stronger than anticipated retail sales...The British Retail Consortium's Retail Sales Monitor has reported a 4.1% lift in December sales ...
the third-highest month for UK retail sales in 2011, behind April and January.
Growth has been attributed ...
hoped-for December closed a relentlessly tough year for retailers, but these figures hinged on a ...
22 Dec 2011
| by Mark Ursell
Retailers planning to exploit Black Friday or Cyber Monday next year should tread carefully, writes...are predicting that high street retail takings will fall 1.2bn year on year to 55.66bn over the festive season ...
and distrust of retailers, both high street and online.
One commentator on the Tpoll forum said of his Cyber ...
time in this way."
And the other worrying bone of contention is a backlash against retailers ...
08 Nov 2011
| by Matthew Chapman
the British Retail Consortium points to worryingly weak retail sales in the run-up to Christmas....The figures from M S reveal the retailer's growth fell from 2.7% in the second quarter of the year ...
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The wider retail picture at the start of the fourth quarter is worsening, according to the BRC. Its October Retail Sales Monitor report showed like-for-like revenues were down 0.6% from October 2010.
Stephen ...
05 Oct 2011
| by Jane Bainbridge
are proving tough for car retailers, writes Jane Bainbridge....on retailers.
Dealers have had a torrid time in recent years. While in 2000 there were more than 6000 ...
that about 6% of potential used-car buyers are likely to buy from such a retailer.
Even after shopping ...
the internet or other distance channel, such as the phone.
Tesco joined the online retail sector ...
25 May 2011
| by Ben Bold
UK consumers have spent a massive £300bn shopping online in the 11 years the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail...online in March, the strongest figure in years .
Total retail sales hit 30.7bn in March, according ...
28 Apr 2011
| by Ed Owen
Retailers employed 0.5% more people in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last...Retail employment figures match the pace of the wider economy and official figures issued ...
in the retail sector fell by 0.8%, confirming difficult trading conditions, according to Stephen Robertson, director general of the British Retail Consortium.
He said: "These figures confirm how tough the trading ...