Introduction
Retail Futures is a unique forecasting tool providing dynamic forecasts and analysis of market demand and price pressures every three months. A Sector Summary Report and seven UK sector and two UK channel forecasts are available (Clothing & Footwear, DIY & Gardening, Electricals, Furniture & Floorcoverings, Food & Grocery, Health & Beauty, Homewares, e-Retail, DIY Superstores).
Features and benefits
* Brief review of economic trends and how they impact retail, explaining how we believe key economic metrics will evolve over the next two years.* Forecasts of how overall retail and retail sectors will fare over the next nine quarters, examining volume, inflation and overall growth rates.* This unique service provides constantly updated forecasts than ensures you are making the right decisions, based on the latest data.* The reliable and accurate data exposes opportunities for growth and is a key operational planning tool to aid tactical and strategic decision-making.* It allows you to benchmark performance with confidence and set effective targets to help maximise performance.
Highlights
Growth trending upwards
• Driven by higher inflation in food & grocery.
• Volumes continue to improve – returning to growth in non-food – though this is against extremely weak comparatives.Non-food growth improves.
• Nonetheless, clothing & footwear and health & beauty remain the only non-food sectors experiencing growth.
• … driven by inflation, with the return of VAT to 17.5%, the weakness of sterling and rising cotton prices.Home related sectors continue to struggle.
• The housing market remains stagnant and is showing no imminent signs of meaningful uplift.
• Weakening consumer confidence, high unemployment and squeezed disposable income is further impacting discretionary demand.
Your key questions answered
* What impact will public sector cuts have on the retail sector?* How will the homewares sector perform in 2011, compared with total retail?* What effect will inflationary pressures have on the homewares sector?
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