Introduction
Summary of Verdict's UK location series, looking at town centre, out-of-town and neighbourhood retailing, as well as giving an overview of regional performance
Scope
Overview of town centre retailing Overview of out-of-town retailing Overview of neighbourhood retailing Overview of the GB regions
Highlights
Town centres suffer from fall in discretionary spending and varying affluence and retail capacity levels leads to regional discrepancies
Neighbourhood resilient, yet increasingly competitive
Out-of-town benefits from grocers and opportunists
Reasons to Purchase
An easy to read summary of the key messages from the UK locations series Find out where you should be and why
Scope
Highlights
Reasons to Purchase
OVERVIEW
Introduction
SUMMARY
Town centres set for further consolidation;
Retail occupancy rates of secondary space are plummeting, with prime space more resilient;
Southern Great Britain is generally resilient but mature;
The Midlands and North West are poorer, but with a leaner retail offer;
Yorkshire and the North East are mature and over capacity;
The principalities demonstrate potential for further development;
Neighbourhood is resilient due to food sales, but major grocers are monopolising the success;
Out-of-town suffers from big-box exposure....
...but is performing relatively well due to grocers and opportunistic specialists.
Table of Contents
Table of figures
Table of tables
Analysis
Town Centres suffer from fall in discretionary spending
Varying affluence and retail capacity levels leads to regional discrepancies
Neighbourhood resilient, yet increasingly competitive
Out-of-town benefits from grocers and opportunists
APPENDIX
Definitions
Further reading
Ask the analyst
Verdict consulting
Disclaimer
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Retail location definitions 2009
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Growth of retail sales by location 1998-2009e
Figure 2: General merchandise retailers town centre sales 2004-2009
Figure 3: Great British regions
Figure 4: UK regional overview - leaders by retail variables 2009
Figure 5: Number of unaffiliated independent stores 2004-2009
Figure 6: Food & Grocery out-of-town sales growth against Food & Grocery sales growth in other locations and OOT sales growth in other sectors 2004-2009e
Figure 7: Proportion of general merchandise sales out-of-town 2004 -2009
Introduction
SUMMARY
Town centres set for further consolidation;
Retail occupancy rates of secondary space are plummeting, with prime space more resilient;
Southern Great Britain is generally resilient but mature;
The Midlands and North West are poorer, but with a leaner retail offer;
Yorkshire and the North East are mature and over capacity;
The principalities demonstrate potential for further development;
Neighbourhood is resilient due to food sales, but major grocers are monopolising the success;
Out-of-town suffers from big-box exposure....
...but is performing relatively well due to grocers and opportunistic specialists.
Table of Contents
Table of figures
Table of tables
Analysis
Town Centres suffer from fall in discretionary spending
Varying affluence and retail capacity levels leads to regional discrepancies
Neighbourhood resilient, yet increasingly competitive
Out-of-town benefits from grocers and opportunists
APPENDIX
Definitions
Further reading
Ask the analyst
Verdict consulting
Disclaimer
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Retail location definitions 2009
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Growth of retail sales by location 1998-2009e
Figure 2: General merchandise retailers town centre sales 2004-2009
Figure 3: Great British regions
Figure 4: UK regional overview - leaders by retail variables 2009
Figure 5: Number of unaffiliated independent stores 2004-2009
Figure 6: Food & Grocery out-of-town sales growth against Food & Grocery sales growth in other locations and OOT sales growth in other sectors 2004-2009e
Figure 7: Proportion of general merchandise sales out-of-town 2004 -2009
