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 retailers are added to SnapShop.

1. FSP RETAIL BUSINESS CONSULTANTS
RETAIL NEWS INDEX
RETAILER BIRTHS &
DEATHS
HOT 100
RETAIL BURN
Retail Burn
This month, the most talked about retailers,
according to SnapShop and the Retail Burn,
include H&M , Morrisons , Costa, Sporting
Pro, Spirit Pub Company , Subway,
Superdry, Wagamama, ASOS, Primark, J
Crew, Abercrombie & Fitch, Gaucho Grill,
Adidas, Mitchells & Butlers, Harris + Hoole,
The Works , M&Co , French Connection
and Pineapple.
The retailer with the highest number of
positive news articles in September was
H&M , with news of rising profits and new
store 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 retailers
are added to SnapShop.
Hot 100
PRODUCT FOCUS

2. The Hot 100 in September 2013 included;
Mobile phone retailer, Phones 4 U
Developing/ printing retailer, Max
Spielmann
Furniture Store, DFS
Luxury accessories brand,
Smythsons
Coffee house, Costa
Jewellery store, Pandora
Chicken focussed restaurant,
Nando's
Women's fashion retailer, Phase
Eight
These sustainable businesses have
substantial sales, a healthy profit and have
maintained good financial health.
For more information on the BIS Wealth
Creation Index, please e-mail us.
RNI
The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported
retail news stories.
The September RNI index for All Retailers increased this month by two, going from 101 to
103.
For the first time in over a year, all the RNI indices have increased, compared to the
previous 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, and
Personal 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

3. Focus Groups – A Valuable Resource
Experience is a key buzzword in the retail landscape. As it becomes ever easier to shop
from your sofa or the train home what are the key drivers to ensure shoppers will visit and
spend? Developing a new shopping location needs shoppers to change their current habits.
Understanding both present and likely future behaviour is key – and while many
requirements will be universal, local issues can have above expected importance.
Measuring footfall, retailer sales and catchment reach are all valid and valuable tools but to
dig deeper and gain specific insight FSP is increasingly using focus group research...
Retail Pulse data derived from Snap-Shop.co.uk
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