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Welcome to the June issue of Total Retail.
Here we are, half way through the year and it doesn’t
seem five minutes since we were trying to make light of
the daily reported doom and gloom in the run-up to
Christmas 2006.
For the first time since those dark days of winter, we’ve
got really good news. I’m delighted to see that the latest
review of retail trading statements issued on the LSE
during the first quarter of 2007 shows that the
overwhelming majority of retailers issued positive or
neutral trading statements – suggesting that retailing in
the UK has turned the corner.
The Grant Thornton Quoted Retail Companies Index has
shown that 44 per cent of all listed retailers issued positive
trading statements for the first three months of the year -
a significant increase from the 33 per cent issued in 2006
and 25 per cent in 2005.
If our postbag here at Total Retail is anything to go by,
new store openings are on the increase too. It’s good to
see the confidence returning to our high streets – long
may it continue.
Now if only we could conjour up some rain .....
Gill Anderson
Cover image: Harvey Nichols interior, courtesy of Armourcoat
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