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23 December 2016
Our final Christmas Countdown Survey reveals that 17 per cent of shoppers are still yet to start their Christmas shopping. The findings also showed that 27 per cent of consumers are expecting to spen...
Read More16 December 2016
Over a quarter of shoppers are still yet to start their Christmas shopping with just nine shopping days left until the big day. Research from Retail Economics revealed that just over a quarter of cons...
Read More15 December 2016
Retail sales (volumes, seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) saw another strong month rising by 6.6 per cent in November according to the ONS. This was off the back of 7.5 per cent growth in the previ...
Read More13 December 2016
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 1.2 per cent in November on the previous year, up from 0.9 per cent reported in October. Inflation is now rising at its fastest rate since October 2014 when it...
Read More08 December 2016
A third of shoppers are still yet to start their Christmas shopping with just 16 shopping days left until the big day. Research from Retail Economics revealed that just over a quarter of consumers int...
Read More17 November 2016
Retail sales (volumes, seasonally adjusted, excluding fuel) rose by a whopping 7.6 per cent in October according to the ONS. This is the fastest growth since April 2002. Retail sales growt...
Read More15 November 2016
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 0.9 per cent in October on the previous year. This was down on the previous month when inflation was 1.0 per cent - surprising many commentators who had expecte...
Read More08 November 2016
The novelty of Black Friday appears to be wearing off with just 21 per cent of consumers suggesting they will take advantage of promotions this year, down on last year’s 25 per cent. What’s more, ther...
Read More20 October 2016
Retail sales growth (value, non-seasonally adjusted) rose by 2.4 per cent in September from 4.1 per cent in the previous month as the first signs of weaker consumer spending may be appearing to materi...
Read More18 October 2016
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 1.0 per cent in September, the fastest in two years and ahead of expectations of a 0.9 per cent rise.The main upward contributors to the change in the...
Read More11 October 2016
Retail sales regained some lost ground in September with total sales up 1.3 per cent, year-on-year, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. Like-for-like sales also improved on the previous mo...
Read More15 September 2016
Richard Lim, Chief Executive, Retail Economics said: “These latest figures from Next are unnerving (NEXT Retail profit down 16.8 per cent) and suggest British fashion retailers are facing their toughe...
Read More15 September 2016
Retail sales growth (value, non-seasonally adjusted) rose by 3.8 per cent in August from 4.0 per cent in the previous month as consumers shrugged off any Brexit fears following the EU Referendum resul...
Read More14 September 2016
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) remained at 0.6 per cent in August, unchanged on the previous month, after a 0.5 per cent rise in the previous month. The main upward contributors to change i...
Read More14 September 2016
Overall, this latest report showed continued strength in the labour market with firms continuing to hire ahead of the EU referendum and in the immediate aftermath. So overall, business as usual althou...
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