Liverpool ONE brightens Blue Monday with hundreds of blooms
Flowers filled Liverpool ONE this morning to help put a smile on visitors’ faces on Blue Monday. Dubbed as the ‘most depressing day of the year’ following [...]
Springfields Outlet and Leisure sees in New Year with stores trading strongly
Record sales results at the outlet as Springfields continues to be a hugely popular destination in the Heart of England Announcing that Cadbury Outlet has signed in [...]
Festive gatherings and holiday bookings boost hospitality and travel in December, while utility bills continue to impact finances
Supermarket growth slowed as many Brits stocked up on festive food and drink earlier than usual to help spread the cost and avoid shortages Spending on utilities [...]
A very golden quarter for London Designer Outlet as it reveals record-breaking December trading
London Designer Outlet has recorded its best December performance since the centre opened in 2013, with sales totalling £10,464,749 Boxing Day sales were up 89% on 2021 [...]
Hobbycraft achieves robust Christmas results with total revenue growth of +7.2% versus 2021
Financial Highlights for Christmas Strong sales performance with total LFL growth of +5.5% Strong underlying growth in store sales were supported by the investment in a new [...]
Northern Ireland Outlet finishes 2022 with strongest sales on record
The Boulevard, Banbridge bucks national retail trends signalling strength in outlet shopping model After what was predicted to be a gloomy time for retail, The Boulevard in [...]
UK retailers close out 2022 with strong online sales – up +26% year-on-year in the last week of December – as Boxing Day boost sees shoppers snap up bargainsUK retailers close out 2022 with strong online sales – up +26% year-on-year in the last week of December – as Boxing Day boost sees shoppers snap up bargains
UK retailers close out 2022 with strong online sales – up +26% year-on-year in the last week of December – as Boxing Day boost sees shoppers snap up bargains
The last week in December (25 Dec – 01 Jan) saw digital sales surge +26% year-on-year as shoppers swerved rail strikes and shopped the deals from home [...]
Consumer card spending grew 10.6 percent in 2022, yet rising living costs made Brits more selective about purchases
Holidays abroad and socialising at pubs and restaurants led to significant recovery for international travel and hospitality Spending on utilities grew 32.9 percent, with Brits increasingly concerned [...]
Visitor data shows huge impact of train strikes on London and commuter towns
Place Informatics, a provider of footfall and location visitor behaviour data monitoring in the UK, has published new data highlighting train strikes’ impact on shopper and visitor [...]
Christmas shoppers to splash £2.87bn this ‘Panic Weekend’
Shoppers forecast to spend £2.87 this ‘Panic Weekend’ (17th-18th Dec), a rise of 4.4% YoY 34.3 million people to shop this weekend, with 21 million set to [...]
London Designer Outlet sales exceed pre-pandemic levels as shoppers seek greater value amid cost of living crisis
Sales for the Black Friday week exceeded those for the same period in 2019 in the run up to Christmas Sportswear sales during the Black Friday week [...]
Small Business Saturday spend up 29% year-on-year as nation comes out to back small businesses
American Express research shows 12.8million Britons shopped at a local, small and independently owned business this Small Business Saturday (3 December) – up 2.8million on last year [...]
Robots roll-out in Yorkshire as Starship Technologies and Co-op bring autonomous food delivery to Leeds
Starship Technologies has partnered with Leeds City Council and the Co-op to bring autonomous grocery delivery to the streets of Leeds. The service will be available to [...]
Cyber Monday boosts online retail revenues, rising +16.3% year-on-year, Wunderkind’s data shows
Cyber Monday and the Black Friday weekend boosted UK retailers’ online revenues, with web traffic and conversions also rising during the discounting event, according to the latest [...]
Spring Fair and TrendBible reveal Christmas 2023 Trends
Spring Fair, the UK’s leading marketplace for wholesale Home, Gift and Fashion which returns to the NEC Birmingham NEC from 5th – 8th February 2023, has collaborated with its [...]
Black Friday footfall boost continues across the weekend as UK shoppers seek out bargains
Footfall on Saturday saw a +10.9% uplift across all retail settings year-on-year (YOY) Sunday shopper traffic counts were also up +8.1% compared to 2021 Black Friday itself [...]
Klarna data shows consumers shopped early to make Christmas savings
Klarna has released data revealing Black Friday sales increased by 12% compared to last year. Sales for Monday to Thursday saw a larger increase, 30% higher than the [...]
Klarna reveals shopper behaviour this Black Week as Friday approaches
Real-time data for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning reveals consumers are taking advantage of the Black Week deals as sales rises by 37% compared to last year [...]
Over a third of Brits more excited about football than Christmas, finds eBay Ads
Latest research from eBay Ads UK shows that football fever will influence winter purchases as Brits plan to invest in everything from kits to electronics in the [...]
Spend to hit £8.71bn over Black Friday weekend as consumers shop early for Christmas
Black Friday Weekend (25 - 28 Nov) spend set to hit £8.71bn, a rise of 0.8% YoY £22.62bn expected to be spent over the two week Black [...]
February 2023 issue
2022 A1 Buyers Guide
