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RETAIL NEWS INDEXRETAILER BIRTHS &

DEATHSHOT 100 RETAIL BURN PRODUCT FOCUS

Retail Burn

This month, the most talked about retailers,according to SnapShop and the Retail Burn,include H&M , Morrisons , Costa, SportingPro, Spirit Pub Company , Subway,Superdry, Wagamama, ASOS, Primark, JCrew, Abercrombie & Fitch, Gaucho Grill,Adidas, Mitchells & Butlers, Harris + Hoole,The Works , M&Co , French Connectionand Pineapple.

The retailer with the highest number ofpositive news articles in September wasH&M , with news of rising profits and newstore openings.

Pineapple is at the other end of the scale,after collapsing into administration.

Retailer Births & Deaths

There were two retail administrations in September: Pineapple and Collectables

One retailer is new to SnapShop: Family Shopper.

SnapShop members can be notified when retailers go into administration or new retailersare added to SnapShop.

Hot 100

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The Hot 100 in September 2013 included;

Mobile phone retailer, Phones 4 U

Developing/ printing retailer, MaxSpielmann

Furniture Store, DFS

Luxury accessories brand,Smythsons

Coffee house, Costa

Jewellery store, Pandora

Chicken focussed restaurant,Nando's

Women's fashion retailer, PhaseEight

These sustainable businesses havesubstantial sales, a healthy profit and havemaintained good financial health.

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RNI

The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reportedretail news stories.

The September RNI index for All Retailers increased this month by two, going from 101 to103.

For the first time in over a year, all the RNI indices have increased, compared to theprevious month.

Clothing & Footwear, Grocery and Food & Beverage all went up by one.

Leisure saw the biggest increase of 7, jumping from 101 to 108.

Household and Personal also saw significant jumps. Household went from 100 to 103, andPersonal increased from 97 to 101.

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

starts from May 2002.

Product Focus

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Focus Groups – A Valuable Resource

Experience is a key buzzword in the retail landscape. As it becomes ever easier to shopfrom your sofa or the train home what are the key drivers to ensure shoppers will visit andspend? Developing a new shopping location needs shoppers to change their current habits.Understanding both present and likely future behaviour is key – and while manyrequirements will be universal, local issues can have above expected importance.

Measuring footfall, retailer sales and catchment reach are all valid and valuable tools but todig deeper and gain specific insight FSP is increasingly using focus group research...

Retail Pulse data derived from Snap-Shop.co.uk01494 474740 fspretail@fspretail.comIf you no longer wish to receive the Retail Pulse from FSP, you can Unsubscribe

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