Final quarter of 2020 saw retail health recover by a further point with the Retail Health Index score edging up to 68, from its Q2 nadir of 61 Premium food and drink boosted retail performance in December The RTT predicts retail health will fall back by 2 points during Q1 2021 because of the lockdown…
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UK retailers deserve a pat on the back for working so hard to protect their margins over the Christmas trading period, claims the KPMG / SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT). In their latest quarterly review of the health of UK retail, the RTT felt that the final quarter of 2006 had been better than expected,…
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The Christmas 2006 trading period will be as good as – if not slightly better than – last Christmas but even this will not deliver UK retail the economic respite it is looking for, according to the latest deliberations of the KPMG / SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT). In fact, the RTT believes that the…
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The inaugural meeting of the KPMG / SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT) has concluded that the UK retail sector is in a fragile and nervous state, with demand growth slowing and with options for further cost cutting rapidly declining. The first meeting of the RTT – a collection of nine leading retail experts from across…
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Today professional services firm KPMG and retail research group SPSL jointly announce the formation of the KPMG/SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT), the first of its kind in the UK, with members comprising the pre-eminent retail experts from all quarters associated with the retail sector. The Retail Think Tank has been created because it is widely…
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