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RETAILER BIRTHS & DEATHS

HOT 100

RETAIL BURN

Retail Burn This month, the most talked about retailers, according to SnapShop and the Retail Burn, include Tesco Stores UK, Waitrose, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Starbucks, Costa, Burberry, Wagamama, Argos, Dolce & Gabbana, Abercrombie & Fitch, Coach, Wilkinson, Matalan, Lakeland, Carpetright , Vodafone, Modelzone and Internacionale.

The retailer with the highest number of positive news articles in July was Tesco Stores UK, after they were ranked the top retailer for fresh food, beating upmarket rivals including Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.

Internacionale is at the other end of the scale, after collapsing into administration. It was later saved.

Retailer Births & Deaths

There were three retail administrations in July: Mostyns, Nicole Farhi, Internacionale.

Thirteen retailers are new to SnapShop: Zaks Restaurants, Sheridan, Bombay High Fashions, Joshua's Harvest, Mother Mash, Inglot, Missoni, Cocoba, Ca'ppucino,Scotch & Soda, Wrap It Up!, The Diner and Interdesign.

Mostyns fell into administration in July, less than one year after being sold through a pre-pack deal.

Nicole Farhi also entered administration but was saved by Maxine Hargreaves-Adams, who acquired all six Nicole Farhi stores and nine concessions, as well as the online business.

PRODUCT FOCUS

After being on the brink of administration in June, Internacionale finally appointed administrators in July, but was immediately sold via a pre-pack deal to its former directors.

SnapShop members can be notified when retailers go into administration or new retailers are added to SnapShop.

Hot 100 The Hot 100 in July 2013 included; Footwear retailer, Russell & Bromley Out of town retailer, Matalan Young fashion footwear retailer, Schuh Womenswear retailer, Miss Selfridge Dutch denim-wear brand, G-Star Specialist running retailer, Runners Need High street stationer, WH Smith Furniture retailer, Oak Furniture Land These sustainable businesses have substantial sales, a healthy profit and have maintained good financial health.

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RNI

The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported retail news stories.

The July RNI index for All Retailers increased this month by one, going up to 102.

Household and Leisure saw a drop in July, both falling by one.

Clothing & Footwear, Food & Beverage and Personal all saw an increase in July.

Grocery remained the same as last month, at 103.

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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

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