The Retail PulseFSP Retail Business Consultants

May 2014

RETAIL NEWS INDEXRETAILER BIRTHS &

DEATHSHOT 100 RETAIL BURN PRODUCT FOCUS

Retailer Births & Deaths

There w ere no reported administrations in May.

There w ere 14 new additions to SnapShop in May, w ith 1 new retailer proposing to enter

the UK market: Muzz Buzz.

SnapShop members can be notif ied w hen retailers go into administration or new retailers

are added to SnapShop.

Retail BurnThis month, as usual, the big national chains

attract the most press. The most talked about

retailers, according to SnapShop and the

Retail Burn, include Selfridges, Carluccio's,

Homebase, B&M, Game, Marks & Spencer

PLC, Morrisons, Carpetright, Abercrombie &

Fitch and Internacionale

The retailer w ith the highest number of

positive new s articles in May w as Selfridges,

having been named as the best department

store in the w orld for the third consecutive

time.

Internacionale is at the other end of the scale

w ith the new s that the value retailer w ill be

completely w ound dow n over the coming

months.

Hot 100The Hot 100 in May 2014 included;

Grow ing sales as expansion continues, Pret

a Manger

Grow ing w holesale arm supports retail,

SuperGroup

Grow ing profits as international expansion

continues, Clarks

Investing in its London f lagship, Selfridges

Launching new format stores, GNC

Continuing its expansion, Nando's

Opening new stores, Off ice

Returning to Southampton, Peacocks

These sustainable businesses have

substantial sales, a healthy profit and have

maintained good f inancial health.

For more information on the BIS Wealth

Creation Index, please e-mail us.

RNI

The FSP Retail New s Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported

retail new s stories.

The May RNI index for All Retailers, at 101, has decreased by 1.

Leisure, at 109, has increased by 1.

Clothing & Footwear, at 94, has decreased by 1.

Household, at 102, has remained steady.

Personal, at 99, has decreased by 5.

Grocery, at 99, has increased by 6.

Food & Beverage, at 105, has decreased by 2.

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

SnapShop - Retail intelligence at your fingertips

FSP has been collecting retailer information for many years and w e know that, if each time

our consultants w anted some background information on a retailer, they w ent to the internet

and searched, they w ould drow n, w hilst not actually f inding w hat they needed. If you need

to know about retailers, you need SnapShop.