The Retail Note

This week’s Retail Note analyses the administration of The Body Shop and potential buy-out of Superdry.

This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for January from the ONS, which showed an unlikely rebound.

This week’s Retail Note focusses on Knight Frank’s Q4 2023 Retail Monitor and assesses what it says about the state of the retail economy and what we may expect to see as 2024 unfolds.

This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for December from the ONS, which were terrible and completely contradictory to the messages conveyed by retailers themselves.

This week’s Retail Note analyses this week’s newsflow from the retail sector on Christmas trading – with major retailers far more upbeat than industry bodies.

This week’s Retail Note provides an initial read on the performance of the retail market over the festive period – and why much of the narrative needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

For the final Retail Note of 2023, we focus on the retail property investment market – where next year will be decidedly better than this, as explored in Knight Frank’s hot off the press Retail…

This week’s Retail Note showcases our latest major Retail Research Report ‘Foodstores: a Feeding Frenzy’, an exceedingly deep-dive into the UK supermarket sector.

This week’s Retail Note focuses on the October retail sales figures from the ONS and outlines KF’s expectations for the wider festive period.

This week’s Retail Note draws on an article from our recent retail thought leadership report, ‘A Retail Renaissance’. Penned by my esteemed colleague Emma Barnstable, the article explores how…