Insight Report | April 9, 2019 Premium New Retail Briefing #7: Ele.me Brings Fresh Produce to Customers; Fliggy Allows Tourists to Buy Before They Fly; Shiseido and Alibaba Sign Joint Business PlanAlibaba’s food-delivery platform Ele.me will help vendors in traditional “wet markets” to sell fresh produce to online shoppers. Read More
Insight Report | April 9, 2019 Premium 2019 Tax Tracker Week 9: Filings Still Down with Two Weeks to Go Until April 15US income tax refund tracker: Filings are still down year over year, and average refund amounts are down slightly with two weeks to go until tax day. Read More
Question of the Week | April 8, 2019 Free Report QOTW: How Big Is the Women’s Plus-Size Clothing Market in China?Question of the Week April 8 2019 – How Big Is the Women’s Plus-Size Clothing Market in China? Read More
Company Profile | April 5, 2019 Premium Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) Company ProfileTiffany & Co. is a US luxury jewelry retailer headquartered in New York and founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young. The company generates 91% of its revenues from jewelry sales. E-commerce, catalog and phone orders represented 7% of total sales in FY15-18. Read More
Flash Report | April 5, 2019 Register for Free Access Goodwill NYNJ Partners with Price Technologies to Boost Re-Commerce OpportunitiesOn April 1, 2019, nonprofit organization Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey (Goodwill NYNJ) announced a partnership with technology startup Price Technologies (Price) to offer more opportunities for shoppers to buy secondhand items. Read More
Insight Report | April 5, 2019 Premium 5G in Retail: Growing Revenues in E-Commerce, Boosting Capabilities in IoT Technologies, and Unleashing Potential in AI, AR and VR5G should unleash the full potential of data-intense technology in retail, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and reality technologies, empowering existing use cases and delivering new applications. Read More
Company Earnings Update | April 5, 2019 Register for Free Access Seven & i Holdings (TSE: 3382) FY19 Results: Recovering at Home, Income Grows in Overseas Convenience StoresSeven & i reported a 14.6% increase in net sales and a 5.1% increase in operating income for FY19. 7-Eleven North America grew net sales by 29.4%, with a 49.3% increase in gasoline sales and a 13.0% increase in merchandise sales. Read More
Store Tracker | April 5, 2019 Databank Members Weekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2019, Week 14: Five Below to Open 145–150 Stores; In the UK, Office Outlet Marks 16 Stores for ClosureCoresight Research tracks store openings and closures for a select group of retailers in the US and the UK, as well as major US retail bankruptcies. In the US, year-to-date announced closures are approaching the total we recorded for the full year 2018. So far this year, US retailers have announced 5,846 store Read More
Analyst Corner | April 4, 2019 Register for Free Access WEINSWIG’S WEEKLY APRIL 5, 2019This week’s note “From the Desk of Deborah Weinswig” discusses the outlook for US retail bankruptcies and store closures, and urges retailers to consider fresh approaches to their physical stores. Read More
Company Earnings Update | April 4, 2019 Register for Free Access Hudson’s Bay Company (TSX: HBC) 4Q18 Results: Revenues Down, Group Comps Down, Return to Cash Flow PositiveHBC reported 4Q18 revenues of C$2.9B, down 5.5% YoY and below the consensus estimate of C$3.18B. The company returned to a positive cash flow position and is working on financial discipline. Read More
Company Earnings Update | April 3, 2019 Register for Free Access Walgreens Boots Alliance (NYSE: WBA) 2Q19 Results: Pricing and Reimbursement Pressures Hit Earnings; Company Lowers FY19 EPS GuidanceWalgreens Boots Alliance reported 2Q19 revenues of $34.5 billion, in line with the consensus estimate and up 4.6% year over year. Diluted EPS came in at $1.24, down 8.8% year over year and below the consensus estimate of $1.50. For FY19, Walgreens expects adjusted EPS to be flat at constant currency, revised down from 7–12% growth. Read More
Insight Report | April 3, 2019 Premium Insights from China: Italy to Become the First G7 Country to Join China’s Belt and Road InitiativeOn March 23, 2019, Italy and China signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. Italy has become the first member of the G7 major advanced economies to sign up to this initiative. Read More
Insight Report | April 2, 2019 Premium February 2019 US Retail Sales: Slowdown Seen Across Sectors with Major Softening in Home-ImprovementTotal retail sales excluding gasoline and automobiles increased 2.7% year over year in February 2019, a substantial slowing from the revised 4.9% year-over-year increase in January. Read More
Deep Dive | April 2, 2019 Premium Reviewing America’s Retail Bankruptcies: What Can We Learn from the Slew of Recent Retail Failures?This report discusses notable US retail bankruptcies in 2017-2018 and examines key factors that led retailers to collapse. Read More
Insight Report | April 2, 2019 Premium 4-5-4 US Retail Calendar, 2019 vs. 2018The 4-5-4 US retail calendar is a guide to the fiscal year ending February 1, 2020. The calendar, used by many US retailers, ensures comparability between years by dividing the year into months based on a ‘4 weeks–5 weeks–4 weeks’ format. Read More
