Leading Middle East and African Clothing, Footwear, Accessories and Luxury Goods Retailers - Company Benchmarking Analysis Report

Synopsis

This report contains a competitive company benchmarking analysis based on key financial and operating parameters and ratios of a select peer group of companies, compared to one another and to overall global averages for their retail channel. The analysis highlights the companies that are performing the best among the peer group, and in which areas, and therefore clarifies leading performance standards and the strengths and weaknesses of companies covered.Summary

Canadean’s ‘Middle East and African Clothing, Footwear, Accessories and Luxury Goods Retailers - Company Benchmarking Analysis Report’ compares the strength of the leading clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers in Middle East and Africa relative to each other and international averages for retailers in the clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers channel.

The benchmark analysis is based on key parameters and ratios that explain the performance of a particular company against that of its immediate peers and its overall channel of operation. As such, it provides an easy-to-use analysis which highlights the companies that are setting the benchmark performance in their channel of operation.

Scope

The report provides a peer group benchmarking analysis of leading clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers in Middle East and Africa. The peer group is selected from our Retailer Company Benchmark Database which covers the leading 1,000 global retailers. The peer group covered includes leading public clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers based in Middle East and Africa.

The retailers covered in the report are:

• Mr. Price Group Ltd.
• Foschini Limited
• Truworths International Limited
• Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Hokair Company

Reasons To Buy

• Understand the relative competitive strengths and weaknesses of the players covered, both compared to each other, as well as for the average performance of retailers in this channel around the world.
• Detailed scorecards and summary heat charts provide clear, concise at a glance analysis of the relative performance of the companies covered across a range of metrics. While more detailed data provides the granular detail behind these concise analyses.
• Gain a detailed knowledge of the best in class performance levels amongst the retailers covered in order to benchmark both competitor performance as well as that of your own company.

Key Highlights

Mr Price was the strongest performer of the leading clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers in Middle East and Africa. The company’s strong performance was driven by the high scores it received for the operational efficiency pillar.

Foschini was the strongest performer under the financial performance pillar. However, the company’s performance in other pillars was comparable to or weaker than the channel average.

Fawaz Alhokair was the weakest performer of the leading clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retailers in Middle East and Africa. The company’s poor performance was driven by the weak results in scale and growth, and financial performance pillars.

The Middle East and African clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods retail market is highly fragmented and is dominated by unorganized operators consisting of independent stores or small store chains.