All Retail Navigator Analysis articles – Page 9
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Waitrose (Overview)
Upmarket grocer Waitrose is part of the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), along with the eponymous department store business, and accounted for around 64% of group sales in the year to 28 January 2023 (FY2022).
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Zara (Overview)
Zara has been in the UK since the late 1990s and has been steadily increasing its sales as its on-trend designs at competitive prices have struck a chord with consumers.
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Zalando (Overview)
German-based Zalando is one of Europe’s largest fashion retailers with annual sales of €10.14bn (around £8.83bn) in 2023. In 2024 it updated its strategy to focus on “building the leading pan-European fashion and lifestyle ecommerce ecosystem” through the two “growth vectors” of business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B).
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The Works (Overview)
The Works is the UK’s leading discount book retailer, but also sells a wide range of toys, gifts, stationery and art & craft supplies – all at discount prices.
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Screwfix (Overview)
Screwfix is a fast-growing DIY retailer that targets trade professionals and serious DIYers with a highly regarded multichannel operation. Originally founded as a mail order operation in the 1970s, the business now trades from nearly 900 stores across the UK and Ireland and delivers to more than 20 countries from its European website.
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Urban Outfitters (SWOT)
Urban Outfitters has created a distinctive brand, offering trendy clothing and homewares. In the UK, it has few direct competitors that offer a similar shopping experience and eclectic product range.
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Urban Outfitters (Overview)
Urban Outfitters is a US-based lifestyle retailer comprising four retail fascias: its eponymous label, Anthropologie, Free People and its Nuuly rental arm.
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Oasis (Overview)
Boohoo acquired Oasis, along with sister retailer Warehouse, out of administration in a £5.2m deal in June 2020. Boohoo, which in the past few years has been acquiring struggling businesses to expand its audience and reach, planned to integrate Oasis and sister retailer Warehouse onto ”allowing both brands to benefit from the group’s insight, infrastructure, supply chain and operating model”.
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Space NK (Overview)
Space NK is a premium beauty and wellbeing specialist, offering a range of both well-known luxury and niche innovative brands from all over the world.
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Space NK (SWOT)
Space NK has created an online sales portal that is an extension of its physical presence rather than a replacement, thereby enabling it to maintain high levels of footfall in-store. This will prove important given that as a brand at the luxury end of the beauty market, Space NK could be vulnerable to consumers cutting back on high-end beauty products in the current economic downturn.
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Space NK (Strategy)
Space NK has been focused on expanding its reach through upsized and new stores from 2023. Its larger physical presence includes more experiential and service elements to develop its customer proposition.
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Nike (Overview)
Nike is the largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel in the world, operating under the Nike, Jordan and Converse brands. It has over 1,000 standalone stores worldwide with around 40 in the UK.
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Nike (SWOT)
Nike is one of the most recognisable brands worldwide with a slogan that is widely known and a logo that is instantly recognisable. Reflecting its brand awareness, Nike is one of the largest footwear companies in the world.
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Nike (Strategy)
In 2020, Nike announced its Consumer Direct Acceleration (CDA) strategy, “a new digitally empowered phase” which would “unlock long-term growth and profitability”.
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Next (SWOT)
The group has benefited from the integration of its Retail and Online operations to reduce costs and enhance service through in-store collection and returns as part of a single, integrated service.
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Next (Strategy)
Fashion powerhouse Next is a retail bellwether, with its enviable ecosystem, established omnichannel model and careful approach to balancing investment and caution, having delivered decades of success.
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Next (Overview)
Next is one of the UK’s largest fashion and home retailers, with almost 460 UK stores and annual sales edging towards the £5.5bn mark for the year to end January 2024 (FY2023). Its well-established omnichannel model and enviable ecosystem allow it to react with agility to changing customer demands, while bold investment in both its stores and online operations is paying off as it caters to consumers’ increasingly channel-agnostic shopping habits.
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Naked Wines (SWOT)
Naked Wines’ split from Majestic Wine has allowed it to focus solely on its online platform and the development of its customer acquisition and retention strategy which is centred around subscriptions and its Angel investment proposition. The retailer also benefited from the shift in more consumers online as a result of the pandemic, although its position has weakened since then.
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Naked Wines (People)
Nick Devlin stepped down as chief executive in early November 2023 after Naked Wines reduced its full-year guidance due to “weaker than anticipated” US sales. Founder Rowan Gormley became executive chairman on an interim basis until a new CEO was appointed. However, in early 2024, Rodrigo Maza was appointed group chief executive designate. Maza will work alongside Gormley for the following few months to accommodate a successful transition with Gormley then returning to his previous position as non-executive chairman.
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Technology strategy at Naked Wines
Naked Wines is a technology-driven business and stepped up its investment in this area in FY2021 as it seeks to reinforce its technology infrastructure to improve the customer experience and support its rapid growth.