Verdict Research Ltd

Verdict Research is the UK's leading authority on retailing and publishes unrivalled independent analysis of the retail industry.

With almost 20 years experience, Verdict has close relationships with major UK retailers and access, at the highest level, to key executives working in the top 300 retailers to hear their firsthand views.

Verdict reports provide clients with a complete picture of the retail sector and unique forecasts to help UK retailers, manufacturers, service suppliers, city analysts, consultants and the media with strategic planning.

Verdict reports focus on specific retail sectors, locations and strategic issues.

Every year we analyse the main retail sectors, and the companies operating within them. VERDICT RESEARCH REPORTS

Verdict's reports are written by our in-house team of analysts who have a thorough understanding of the forces governing retail markets. Through a regular programme of store visits and meetings with senior retailers, we ensure that we are kept informed of developments in all of the main retail sectors.

Our reports focus on specific markets and topical retail issues. They combine comparative and statistical data on markets, companies and products with an in-depth commentary on recent and current developments. An informed overview of future prospects provides an invaluable aid to business planning.

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List of reports from Verdict Research Ltd

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Verdict on Mail Order Retailers
12/1/2004 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... UK's purchase of Shop Direct at the end of 2003, creating a mail order superpower with more than 70% of agency under its control, created a sense of immense fear among many in the sector.  |  more...
$3,170.00
e-Retail
1/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... in four consumers now shopping online. Furthermore, retailers who have invested online are at last beginning to reap rewards, with Tesco, Next, Amazon and Argos all beginning to create meaningful profits from their online operations. ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Health & Beauty Retailers 2004
1/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... GP practice; the supermarket and budget high street operator that offers low prices and convenience and the premium/destination operator that comprises the beauty halls of department stores and small specialist stores. And separately, the market ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Home Delivery & Fulfilment
2/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... been transformed from the days when it catered largely for catalogue shopping cash conscious housewives. Many of these customers have migrated to value-led bricks-and-mortar retailers or chosen to spend more of their money on the ...  |  more...
$3,555.00
How Britain Shops 2005: Food & Groceries
3/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... complex, capricious and notoriously difficult to attain success … and that’s mostly thanks to one thing: the consumer. How Britain Shops: Food & Grocery examines shifts in consumer shopping patterns against a backdrop of a ...  |  more...
$4,325.00
European Department Stores Retailing
4/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... & Spencer and House of Fraser all looking to expand overseas. But while new member states appear to provide the fastest route to growth, their demographics do not support a large number of department stores. ...  |  more...
$3,835.00
How Britain Shops
4/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... shoppers, How Britain Shops 2005, fewer people are shopping in six of the eight major retail sectors. And while shopper numbers are declining, retail markets are consolidating with the leading retailers claiming an ever-larger share.  |  more...
$5,090.00
Consumer Demographics 2005 - Baby Boomer Consumers
5/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... more wealth than those younger than them and are more likely to be in employment still, unlike many older customers who must rely on their pensions. However, there are big variations in wealth and the ...  |  more...
$2,595.00
Consumer Demographics 2005 - Silver Consumers
5/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... will have risen 40% to 13.4m. The growth will be strongest between 2009 and 2014 when there will be an addition of 1.3m people to the age group. Yet silver consumers' participation in retail is ...  |  more...
$2,595.00
Consumer Demographics 2005 - Youth Consumers
5/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... often young customers shop around more and are consequently less loyal than older customers. Young shoppers are more likely to view shopping as a social event, and will spend more time browsing shops looking for ...  |  more...
$2,595.00
Smaller Fashion Multiples
5/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... main models: the value-driven one with low prices and volume sales; and the smaller fashion multiple that has lower volume but a higher margin. Both produce stronger growth than the mass middle market which is ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Electricals Retailers
6/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... any other time in the past decade. And major household appliances are set to experience a torrid 2005. While much of the electricals sector is driven by new technology, this is far less the case ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Verdict on the High Street 2005
6/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... changes in shopping habits and unleashed by the growth of out-of-town and online retailing. But with consumer demand weaker and a host of cost increases eating into margins, a long overdue shakeout of weaker high ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Retailing for the Home
6/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... performance since 1969 but this was only the second time in the last 10 years that the segment has underperformed the retail average. Two of the three core pillars of home market growth have crumbled. ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Menswear Retailers
7/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... managed only to maintain its share of expenditure level, in 2004 it would have commandeered an additional £1bn worth of sales - a sum equivalent to the menswear turnover of Next, Arcadia and Gap combined.  |  more...
$3,170.00
Value Clothing Retailers
7/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... growth in the clothing market, much of it driven by the value retailers, in 2005 a downturn in consumer spending, plus rising costs, is making trading much more difficult for clothing retailers - and this ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Homewares Retailers
7/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... growth to go round than was previously the case. We are now into the third successive year of what is - for the homewares sector - relatively meagre market growth, and it is hard to ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Music & Video Retailers
7/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... the novelty of DVD has worn off sales growth is in sharp retreat, and market growth in 2004 was the slowest since 1999. As the market slows, competition is certain to intensify - and only ...  |  more...
$5,190.00
Furniture & Floorcoverings
8/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... been eroded. Levels of housing transactions are substantially down in 2005, while house price growth in many parts of the country has become a thing of the past. This, combined with reduced consumer confidence - ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
DIY & Gardening Retailers
8/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... £5.5bn over the next five years? DIY & Gardening Retailers 2005 will provide you with a breakdown of key growth areas in this market where a healthy trading environment is already providing a platform for ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Childrenswear Retailers
8/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... slowing in 2005 - And gains will come largely from girlswear: following four years of strong growth, the infantswear market is set to be adversely affected by a slowdown in birth rate growth in 2005.  |  more...
$3,170.00
Footwear Retailers
9/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... store is detrimental to footwear specialist retailers. As a result clothing specialists and grocers have increased their footwear sales by 60.6% over 2000-2005 vs growth in sales via footwear specialists of 24.5%. Benefits of footwear ...  |  more...
$3,170.00
Retail Futures 2010: Electricals
10/3/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... market are all deterring consumers from buying electricals. While the short-term outlook for electricals is tough, a host of new ‘must have’ technologies will lead to exciting long term prospects for retailers. How can retailers ...  |  more...
$3,840.00
Retail Futures 2010: Homewares
11/1/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... specialists do in response to overcome non-specialists’ inherent advantages? Covering over 80 pages of the latest unrivalled and independent forecast analyses for the homewares sector, Verdict’s Retail Futures 2010: Homewares will enable you to: Examine ...  |  more...
$3,840.00
Retail Futures 2010: Food & Grocery
11/5/2005 | published by: Verdict Research Ltd
... of core food should not be forgotten and neither should investment in product range and development. What are the key issues set to impact on the food & grocery sector in the next five years ...  |  more...
$3,840.00
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