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Retail, waving not drowning?

Retail health is deteriorating but it’s not in ‘free fall’ states industry think tank

[Editorial] Cyclical credit-crunch approaching?

SPSL's latest research for the BRC-KPMG Retail Traffic Index has led them to interpret the 3.6% year on year decline in shoppers numbers (along with data on insolvencies and bank restrictions on lending) as credit-stretched customers curbing their shopping. The impact for etailers is greater than for the High Street...

Christmas sales won't lift sector - or will they?

According to the KPMG/SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT)'s latest report, even a Chritmas season better than 2005's will not give the sector any respite. Interestingly, the Barclays' Retail Industry Forum are saying that over half of retailers expect a Christmas that's over 10% better than last year... Meanwhile, IMRG is predicting a 60% or more increase, while Hitwise (who predict a more modest 8% year on year increase) suggest that 4-16 December will be the peak ordering time... Clearly, future-gazing is an inexact science!

Skills shortage to hit North West's call centres

A shortage of skilled staff is causing recruitment problems at call centres across the North West of England and things are likely to get worse as businesses carry out expansion plans.

High street sales up on last year

High street sales in December were not all doom and gloom as retailers would have had us believe at the beginning of December. December's like-for-like sales were up 2.5% on 2005, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.

Online fashion sales break £1 billion mark as IR warns of shake up

Online sales of fashion goods broke through the £1 billion mark in 2006 (but still only accounted for 3% of of the total amount which is spent on shoes and clothing in the UK), reports Helen Dickinson, Head of Retail at KPMG. The upcoming launch of publisher Conde Nast's online shopping portal Stylefinder.com looks set to shake up the fashion market - and has implications for retailers across the board.

Retail Think Tank post news of 'delayed gloom'

The Retail Think Tank (RTT) is looking at Q4 and seeing that all indicators are negative. A minority view, however, is that Christmas will still be good for retailers - customers are in denial and determined to have a good Christmas. Their warning is that this betokens worse times ahead. Read no further if you're currently in a good mood...


Discounting is damaging retail

At least that’s what the brains behind the KPMG/SPSL Retail Think Tank think

The credit crunch advances

It’s happening in the high street will it happen online?

discounting on the internet

At least that’s what the brains behind the KPMG/SPSL Retail Think Tank think

High Street Tumbleweed

It’s happening in the high street will it happen online?

Monitor adds online sales indicator

For the first time, the British Retail Consortium and KPMG have broken out non-store sales from the overall sales figures in the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor

Poundland, Allied Carpets and Jigsaw to start selling online

Three more retailers who have yet to go live with a transactional website are looking to boost sales and investor confidence by saying they will begin selling online in the very near future