The combination of a stagnating housing market, restricted access to credit and deteriorating consumer confidence will cause furniture and floorcoverings to be the worst performing retail sector in 2009. The only sub-sector to achieve positive year-on-year growth throughout the period will be beds and bedrooms. This is largely due to it being a needs based product; should it break, customers will look to replace it quicker than other pieces of furniture.

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UK Retail Futures 2013: Furniture & Floorcoverings is a new report published by Verdict Research providing a comprehensive, authoritative analysis of the market outlook. This supplies an extensive range of key data and metrics essential for participants to fully understand the dynamics of the market and form winning strategies

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Key categories covered in this report:

Upholstery, Bedroom furniture, Bathroom, Living and Dining room furniture, Kitchen, Home Office, Carpets, Vinyl & Linoleum, Hard floorcoverings.

This report will enable you to:

• Understand how the worsening performance of the housing market will impact demand for UK furniture & floorcoverings products. Use this report to analyse how falls in the value of property and the number of house moves will impact UK retailers.
   
• Discover which categories look set to outperform the market. Compare projected growth rates of the key categories to assess new opportunities and make strategic decisions based on category information.
   
• Identify which retailers present the greatest threat to UK Furniture & Floorcoverings specialists based on this report’s unique channels of distribution analysis and evaluation of the strategic tactics of key players.
   
• Gain detailed insight into multichannel development in UK Furniture & Floorcoverings market using this report's detailed analysis of the sector to understand the drivers of market growth, analyse inflationary/deflationary pressures and see the impact of projected store expansion and online.

Key questions answered by this report include:  

• Which channel is gaining the most market share and why?
  
• How are specialists set to perform until 2013?
   
• What impact has the economic slowdown had on UK Furniture & Floorcoverings retailers’ strategies?
   
• Which retailers will gain or lose market share in 2009?
   
• How has increased focus on cost control affected the UK Furniture & Floorcoverings market?
   
• What are going to be the main drivers of growth over the next 5 years?
   
• Which sub-categories will prove most able to withstand the downturn?
   

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