Abstract
This report series covers the 19 leading economies of Western Europe. In total these countries account for around 98% of all European retail sales, excluding Russia. The remaining ten countries are either too small (eg Luxembourg) or are not sufficiently well developed to warrant detailed coverage (eg Romania and Bulgaria). These developing countries plus Russia and Turkey are covered in the Mintel report on Emerging Markets, 2007. We have produced Major Profiles of 10 top Electricals retailing groups in Europe. For many countries we also include smaller profiles (31 in total) on other significant players, both domestic and foreign as relevant.
This data in its entirety is contained in the single copy 19-country report, which gives a full overview of Electricals retailing in Europe. Single country reports, including consumer research analysis, are also available for the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
The focus of the reports is the electricals specialists, because these are the dominant players in the sector.
The electricals sector faces major challenges:
- Competition from non-specialists such as hypermarkets and department stores is driving down prices even further.
- Declining consumer confidence and slow consumer spending growth is/will hit areas of discretionary spending such as electricals hard.
- The Internet has emerged as an important channel of distribution for electricals, it has also had a negative effect upon pricing and is putting the store-based retailers under pressure.
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