Spend shift to home renovations continues to power Kingfisher
Consumer momentum to shop online is not slowing down with e-commerce sales at Kingfisher up 158.2% in its Q3 to…
21 Sep 2020
Covid-19 will add $16.7bn onto frozen meat, potato and vegetable sales by 2023
Covid-19 has severely impacted what consumers are buying and how they shop. Frozen categories are seeing big increases in popularity outside of frozen fish. The three largest non-fish categories, meat,…
21 Sep 2020
Landlords must adapt quickly in the face of a changing retail landscape
The online retail market is forecast to grow by 26.3% in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic with online sales now accounting for 22.2% of total retail spend…
16 Sep 2020
Ocado reports positive early signs from new M&S partnership
Despite initial issues Ocado’s switch from Waitrose to M&S this month has yielded positive results so far The launch day at the start of September was the firm’s ‘biggest forward…
14 Sep 2020
Retail footfall to be negatively impacted, while face masks remain mandatory in stores
While the government had hoped that making face masks mandatory in shops in England and Scotland would give consumers greater confidence to make non-essential trips, 21.5% of consumers in these…
10 Sep 2020
Dunelm proves its resilience with quick recovery, following lockdown
Given the circumstances, Dunelm has reported a commendable set of results for its FY2019/20 to the end of June with a strong H1 performance offsetting some of the damage caused…
10 Sep 2020
Preparing for the unexpected drives a supply chain rethink
Covid-19 has forced businesses to completely rethink how their supply chains operate. Traditionally, supply networks have been tuned for cost and speed, an approach that relies on having no interruptions.…