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1. FSP RETAIL BUSINESS CONSULTANTS
RETAIL NEWS INDEX
RETAILER BIRTHS &
DEATHS
HOT 100 RETAIL BURN PRODUCT FOCUS
Retail Burn
This month, the most talked about retailers,
according to SnapShop and the Retail Burn,
include Tesco Stores UK, Waitrose, M&S,
Morrisons, Sainsbury's Supermarkets,
Starbucks, Costa, Burberry, Wagamama,
Argos, Dolce & Gabbana, Abercrombie &
Fitch, Coach, Wilkinson, Matalan, Lakeland,
Carpetright , Vodafone, Modelzone and
Internacionale.
The retailer with the highest number of
positive news articles in July was Tesco
Stores UK, after they were ranked the top
retailer for fresh food, beating upmarket
rivals including Waitrose and Marks &
Spencer.
Internacionale is at the other end of the
scale, after collapsing into administration. It
was later saved.
Retailer Births & Deaths
There were three retail administrations in July: Mostyns, Nicole Farhi, Internacionale.
Thirteen retailers are new to SnapShop: Zaks Restaurants, Sheridan, Bombay High
Fashions, Joshua's Harvest, Mother Mash, Inglot, Missoni, Cocoba, Ca'ppucino,Scotch &
Soda, Wrap It Up!, The Diner and Interdesign.
Mostyns fell into administration in July, less than one year after being sold through a
pre-pack deal.
Nicole Farhi also entered administration but was saved by Maxine Hargreaves-Adams, who
acquired all six Nicole Farhi stores and nine concessions, as well as the online business.

2. After being on the brink of administration in June, Internacionale finally appointed
administrators in July, but was immediately sold via a pre-pack deal to its former directors.
SnapShop members can be notified when retailers go into administration or new retailers
are added to SnapShop.
Hot 100
The Hot 100 in July 2013 included;
Footwear retailer, Russell & Bromley
Out of town retailer, Matalan
Young fashion footwear retailer,
Schuh
Womenswear retailer, Miss Selfridge
Dutch denim-wear brand, G-Star
Specialist running retailer, Runners
Need
High street stationer, WH Smith
Furniture retailer, Oak Furniture
Land
These sustainable businesses have
substantial sales, a healthy profit and have
maintained good financial health.
For more information on the BIS Wealth
Creation Index, please e-mail us.
RNI
The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported
retail news stories.
The July RNI index for All Retailers increased this month by one, going up to 102.
Household and Leisure saw a drop in July, both falling by one.
Clothing & Footwear, Food & Beverage and Personal all saw an increase in July.
Grocery remained the same as last month, at 103.
For the full report, click here.
FSP on average reviews over 350 unique items of retailer news. Each article is scored according to sentiment. RNI is the
sum of these scores indexed against 2005 and averaged over a three month period. The RNI time series for all retailers

3. starts from May 2002.
Product Focus
Estimating the Local Impact of On-line Sales
The growth of on-line sales has continued at a dizzy pace for nearly a decade. From about
6% of comparison goods sales in 2005, on-line is estimated to be about 15% today and is
expected to reach 20% by 2020. Combined with equally impressive non-grocery sales
growth at supermarkets, the Portas Report calculates that only 42% of all retail sales now
take place on the high street. Clearly, it is no longer correct to assume that all residential
spend in a catchment is available for towns to convert into sales and sustainable rents...
Retail Pulse data derived from Snap-Shop.co.uk
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