UK Grocery Retailers 2008

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Key Findings
  • Main Conclusions
• CHAPTER 2 MARKET ANALYSIS
  • Market Definition
  • Sales by Retailer Type
  • Store Numbers by Retailer Type
  • Selling Space by Retailer Type
  • Sales Density by Retailer Type
  • Channels of Distribution
  • Core Food & Grocery Expenditure
  • Core Food & Grocery vs Total Retail
  • Inflation
• CHAPTER 3 COMPANY DATA ANALYSIS
  • Market Shares
  • Key Operating Statistics
  • Space Allocation
  • Advertising
• CHAPTER 4 OUTLOOK
  • Overview
  • Changing Consumer
    • Health
    • Convenience
    • Value
    • Quality
    • Ethics
  • Rising Food Price Inflation Adds to High Cost Base
  • Impact of Competition Commission
  • Potential Sale of Somerfield
    • Scenario 1 - A Retailer Acquires and Operates Majority of Sites
    • Scenario 2 - Business is Broken Up
    • Scenario 3 - No Sale at Present
    • Conclusion
  • Non-food Development Continues to Drive Growth
  • Online a Key Growth Opportunity
    • Food & Grocery
    • Non-food
  • Hard Discounters Continue to Grow Market Share
• CHAPTER 5 ASDA WAL-MART
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 6 CO-OPERATIVE GROUP
  • Company Overview
  • Trading Record
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 7 ICELAND
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 8 MARKS & SPENCER
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
    • Six Months to September 2007
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 9 WM MORRISON
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 10 SAINSBURY
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
    • Current Trading
  • Store Portfolio
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 11 SOMERFIELD
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 12 TESCO
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
    • Current Trading
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 13 WAITROSE
  • Company Overview
  • Market Share
  • Trading Record
    • Year to end January 2007
    • Six Months to July 2007
    • Current Trading
  • Store Portfolio
  • Retail Proposition
  • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 14 HARD DISCOUNTERS
  • Company Overviews
  • Market Shares
  • Aldi
    • Trading Record
    • Store Portfolio
    • Space Allocation
  • Lidl
    • Trading Record
    • Store Portfolio
    • Space Allocation
  • Netto
    • Trading Record
    • Store Portfolio
    • Space Allocation
  • Outlook
• CHAPTER 15 SMALLER GROCERY PLAYERS
  • Company Overviews
  • Booths
  • Farmfoods
  • Whole Foods Market
• CHAPTER 16 GLOSSARY
  • Financial Statistics - VAT
  • Trading Profile
  • Physical Development
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
    • Figure 1: Total growth in consumer expenditure in major retail sectors 2007 on 2002
    • Figure 2: Food & grocery vs total retail inflation/deflation 1997-2007
    • Figure 3: Sales per sq ft comparisons 2006/07e
    • Figure 4: Operating profit per sq ft comparisons 2006/07
    • Figure 5: Key issues in the grocery market 2008
    • Figure 6: The changing grocery consumer 2008
    • Figure 7: Pressures on food price inflation 2008
    • Figure 8: Competition Commission provisional findings & potential outcomes 2008
    • Figure 9: Potential market shares of Asda or Sainsbury on acquisition of complete Somerfield business 2008
    • Figure 10: Opportunities in non-food for Big Four UK grocers 2008
    • Figure 11: Online grocery retailing 2008
    • Figure 12: Hard Discounters store numbers 2000-2010e
    • Figure 13: Hard discounters competitive landscape 2008
    • Figure 14: Asda grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 15: Co-operative Group grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 16: Iceland grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 17: Marks & Spencer UK grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 18: Wm Morrison grocery market share 2002-2007e
    • Figure 19: Sainsbury grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 20: Somerfield Group grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 21: Tesco UK grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 22: Waitrose grocery market share 2001-2007e
    • Figure 23: Aldi, Lidl and Netto market shares 2001-2007e