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UK consumer spending showed resilience in July, Visa report shows

UK consumer spending showed resilience in July, Visa report shows

UK consumer spending showed resilience in July, according to Visa’s latest UK Consumer Spending Index. It shows consumer spending has risen +1.6% year-on-year in July, an improvement over May (+0.8%) and June (+0.9%), but still lower than the average growth

08/08/2016 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Battle for consumer spending moves from high street to out-of-town, CBRE reports

Martin Summerscales, head of retail consultancy, CBRE, says the battle for retail spend is moving from the high street to out-of-town retail parks Out-of-town retail parks have become an essential ingredient in the UK economy. The sector provides employment for a

03/03/2016 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

Christmas run-up sees growth strength on the high street, CBI reports

High street sales growth accelerated in the year to December, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey, which covers the crucial run-up to Christmas.

21/12/2015 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Future of shopping centres is ‘showroom experience’, says Aston Business School professor

Birmingham’s new Grand Central shopping centre encapsulates the future for high street retail, argues Heiner Evanschitzky, professor and chair of marketing at Aston Business School There are many challenges facing today’s bricks and mortar retailers as the market reshapes to match

01/10/2015 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

North has twice the number of empty shops as the South, Local Data Company reports

Today The Local Data Company’s latest report on vacancy rates entitled ‘Mind the Gap’ will be presented at LDC’s 11th Retail Summit at the offices Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. It analyses over 3,000 town centres, shopping centres and retail

04/02/2015 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Quarter of UK consumers will not use high street for Christmas shopping, YouGov online survey for Akamai finds

Quarter of UK consumers will not use high street for Christmas shopping, YouGov online survey for Akamai finds

Akamai, a leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has announced the figures for retail traffic volumes on its intelligent platform at the end of November, and simultaneous research carried out with

16/12/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Worldpay calls time on high street tinsel tension with friction free Christmas shopping

As long queues, disappearing stock and impersonal service cause tensions to boil over on the high street during the annual festive shopping spree, research by Worldpay, the UK’s leading payments processor, reveals just under a third of UK Christmas shoppers have

11/11/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Christmas retail uplift poised to hit stores this week, Worldpay transaction data reveals

Christmas retail uplift poised to hit stores this week, Worldpay transaction data reveals

It’s time to start up the Christmas music, dust off the tinsel, and order the Santa hats, as transaction data from Worldpay reveals the last week in October is the official start of the pre-Christmas shopping rush. According to Worldpay, Britain’s

31/10/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Expert teams up with Notttingham Trent University to inspire retailers in the changing high street

Expert teams up with Notttingham Trent University to inspire retailers in the changing high street

An international advertising expert – who’s given talks for major companies across Europe – has teamed up with Nottingham Trent University, to host an event to inspire profitable business in a changing high street. Marie Stafford, foresight director at JWT

24/10/2014 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Cloud-based multi-channel retail specialist, One iota, installs technology in 1,000th high street store

Cloud-based multi-channel retail specialist, One iota, installs technology in 1,000th high street store

One iota, the cloud-based multi-channel retail technology specialist in online, in-store and interactive solutions, has reached a significant company milestone by installing its technology in over 1,000 high street stores. Founded in 2010 by Damian Hanson, CEO and David Hague,

22/10/2014 | Retail News, Retail Technology, Retailer News | Read More

Sales still strong despite footfall dip, latest BRC-Springboard Footfall Monitor shows

Footfall in August was 1.1% down on a year ago, down on the 0.6% fall in July and below the three-month average of a 0.8% decline, according to he August BRC-Springboard Footfall Monitor. Out-of-town reported the only rise, 2.9% higher

15/09/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Groupon research reveals the better consumers know their local shopkeeper, the more they spend

Groupon search has found that Brits are likely to spend up to £61 more a year on their high street if their local shop keeper gets to know their name. This is particularly good news for customer-friendly retailers, as the research

11/09/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Competition between businesses reveals energy success and failures, reports E.ON

Britain’s high street businesses are using energy to gain a competitive advantage on rivals, according to new research by E.ON which advised that old or inefficient appliances could be punishing their attempts to increase revenue. The study revealed that more than

11/09/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Out-of-town strong as overall footfall weakens, latest BRC-Springboard Monitor shows

Out-of-town strong as overall footfall weakens, latest BRC-Springboard Monitor shows

Footfall in May was 0.2% down on a year ago, marginally down on the 0.1% fall in April and below the three-month average of a 0.6% increase, according to the latest BRC-Springboard Footfall Monitor. Footfall on the high street was 0.9%

16/06/2014 | Retail News | Read More
Lack of eco-effort is costing the high street millions, Post Office Shop survey suggests

Lack of eco-effort is costing the high street millions, Post Office Shop survey suggests

As climate becomes more and more a focus for people there appears to be a perceived lack of effort by businesses to be more eco-friendly, which could be costing the UK high street millions of pounds a year, a survey

27/01/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Retailers seek to reduce length of leases, Creditsafe finds

Despite government moves to boost the high street, Britain’s retailers are under intense pressure and in the last year 75% of property management firms have witnessed retailers attempting to renegotiate the terms of their leases with landlords. That’s according to

08/01/2014 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Smartphones allow bricks and mortar retailers to engage with brands and offer personal service, says Powa Technologies

Smartphones allow bricks and mortar retailers to engage with brands and offer personal service, says Powa Technologies

As this year’s Christmas shopping season reaches its conclusion, technology entrepreneur and CEO of Powa Technologies, Dan Wagner, proposes a synergy between traditional retail and innovative technologies to save the UK’s high streets Over the past few years there have

28/12/2013 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More

Pactical presents poised to top shopping lists at Christmas, Barclays survey reveals

British consumers are expected to spend freely this Christmas but, practical presents will still top festive shopping lists, according to a survey of high street retailers by Barclays. More than half of retailers (52%) feel more confident about Christmas trading

12/11/2013 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Footwear retailer, Barratts Shoes, calls in administrators as latest UK retail casualty

Footwear retailer, Barratts Shoes, calls in administrators as latest UK retail casualty

Philip Duffy and David Whitehouse from global financial advisory and investment banking firm, Duff & Phelps, were appointed joint administrators of footwear retailer Barratts Shoes on 8 November 2013. The joint administrators are reviewing the company’s financial position whilst seeking a

11/11/2013 | Retail News, Retailer News | Read More
Women like to shop on high street fortnightly and preferably alone, research finds…while men favour shopping online and will rarely try clothes on before they buy

Women like to shop on high street fortnightly and preferably alone, research finds…while men favour shopping online and will rarely try clothes on before they buy

The perfect shopping trip involves a four hour trawl around stores, one cup of posh coffee and a cake – and a modest £117.32 dent in the bank balance, it has been revealed. Researchers, who polled 2,000 women who are

08/11/2013 | Data Time, Research | Read More
Special children’s menu is top parental demand on UK high street, research shows

Special children’s menu is top parental demand on UK high street, research shows

Parents have five top requests from cafés and shops on UK high streets, according to research released today by GMI (Global Market Insite), a provider of technology-enabled solutions for global market research. Its study shows how parents of pre-school children

17/09/2013 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Insolvency expert urges retailers to remain cautious despite sales recovery

Retailers in the UK have been urged by a legal expert to think carefully about how they approach the coming months despite increasingly encouraging signs that the sector has well and truly turned the corner. Figures from the British Retail

20/08/2013 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More
Google Glass tipped to drive the high street’s revival, new Venda research reveals

Google Glass tipped to drive the high street’s revival, new Venda research reveals

Wearable technology devices could be set to revitalise the role of physical retail stores, according to a new report from digital commerce solutions provider Venda, conducted by YouGov. The Wearable Technology: The High Street’s Secret Weapon?report polls the views of 2,043 UK

15/08/2013 | Data Time, Research | Read More

Firms could do more to swerve crisis hitting high streets, says sales consultancy

Britain’s high street businesses are entrenched in a period of crisis – but many could be doing more to tackle it, according to a leading international sales consultancy. The comments comes in the wake of new figures revealing that 40% of all

07/08/2013 | Comment, Opinion Time | Read More
Local shops and town centres are top choice for European shoppers, CBRE finds

Local shops and town centres are top choice for European shoppers, CBRE finds

Town centre managers should go back to basics to meet consumer demand as new research from global property advisor CBRE reveals most Europeans still prefer to visit their local shops and town centres rather than buy products online or shop at

24/06/2013 | Data Time, Reports | Read More
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