The document presents the FSP Retail News Index (RNI) for September 2013. The RNI tracks the sentiment in UK retail markets based on analysis of over 350 news items each month. The September 2013 RNI showed that the overall retail market index was up 2.6% year-over-year to 103. The leisure and food & beverage categories saw the strongest growth at 11.4% and 5.2% respectively. The index provides a monthly snapshot of retail sector performance going back to 2002 and is designed to track trends rather than daily volatility.

1. FSP Retail News Index
Year
Month
2013
9
Monthly Index
All
Retailers
C&F
Household
Leisure
Personal
Grocery
Food &
Beverage
Index
103
95
103
108
101
103
107
% YoY Change
2.6%
-2.1%
2.7%
11.4%
6.4%
6.4%
5.2%
September 2013
Monthly Index (2005 = 100)
105
100
95
90
All Retailers
C&F
Household
Leisure
Personal
Grocery
Food &
Beverage
Monthly Time Series
Year
Month
All
Retailers
C&F
Household
Leisure
Personal
Grocery
Food &
Beverage
2012
2012
2012
2012
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
100
100
99
100
100
100
99
100
101
101
102
101
103
97
96
94
94
94
93
92
91
92
92
93
94
95
100
99
93
93
95
100
100
100
99
101
100
100
103
97
100
102
102
100
98
99
101
104
103
102
101
108
95
95
96
99
99
95
94
94
94
91
92
97
101
97
98
99
100
100
102
103
105
105
103
103
102
103
102
103
104
106
104
103
104
106
108
105
107
106
107
Notes
Retail News Index (RNI) has been produced by FSP to track the mood of the UK retail market. As part of the SnapShop service, FSP typically
review over 350 unique items of retailer news in the trade and national press every month. Each item is scored according to the sentiment of the
news (i.e. expanding / strong sales growth: positive, store closures / redundancies: negative). RNI is the sum of these scores, indexed against
2005 and averaged over a three month period to eliminate volatility and produce a reliable trend indicator. The RNI time series for all retailers
starts at May 2002. The content of this report has been derived from statistical, trade and published sources. Whilst FSP has used its best
endeavours to ensure the accuracy of the information, it cannot accept liability for any data therein nor any interpretation made therefrom.
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