About our European and Global Sector Reports

Verdict European Sector Reports

Verdict Research now publishes an expanding range of reports covering all EU member states with detailed profiles of major players within each retail sector.

Each European Retail publication includes:

• Full five year data sets for key market metrics, including retail expenditure, space and store numbers for the total retail market and individual retail sectors for all EU member states.
   
• Individual chapters for principle markets detailing national strategic issues and competitive landscape for all major markets and a thorough analysis of all sector–specific strategic issues
   
• Detailed retailer profiles, including financial performance and store estate development for all leading European retailers 

We publish the following European titles:

• European Health & Beauty
  European Health & Beauty Retailers 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides extensive data of the growing European health & beauty market including insight into the dynamics of the market and authoritative analysis of the leading 6 retailers. The report identifies the key issues in the market and highlights the main opportunities and threats going forward.
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• European Clothing Retailing
  European Clothing Retailers 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides a detailed and extensive examination of the EU clothing market with data on all 27 countries. It includes comprehensive analysis of the six largest markets and strategic insight into the five largest EU clothing retailers by market share. Read more or order.
   
• European DIY Retailing -NEW!
  European DIY Retailing 2008 is new report published by Verdict Research that provides five years of European DIY market data and details the key drivers and trends shaping this sector across Europe. This report analyses key operating statistics for all the leading players to provide a proprietary benchmark of the leading European DIY retailers. Read more or order.
   
• European Electricals Retailing
  This report examines the key trends and opportunities in the dynamic European electricals market, profiling Europe’s leading electricals retailers, assessing their trading performance, strategy and growth prospects. Read more or order.
   
• European Furniture Retailing
  This report provides insight into the key trends and future developments in retailer growth strategies in a challenging and competitive market environment through its detailed analysis of the opportunities in the sector and the threats posed by non-specialists. Read more or order.
   
• European Grocery Retailing
  Retailers, who position themselves correctly can exploit lucrative opportunities in green retailing, internationalization, non-food ranges, private label development, the convenience trend, retail format diversification and multi-format strategy development. This report profiles Europe’s leading grocery groups, assessing their trading performance, strategy and growth prospects. Read more or order.
   

Verdict Global Sector Reports

Verdict are now publishing reports covering all the world's major retail markets, with detailed profiles of the major players within each sector, and in-depth analysis of the factors affecting each region.

Our Global Retail publications include: 

• Thorough analysis of all sector–specific strategic issues
• Market shares and company comparisons
• Regional macroeconomic and demographic data and analysis

We publish the following Global titles:

• Global Jewellery Retailing 2008
  Global Jewellery Retailing 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that brings Verdict’s expertise in analysing markets, issues and trends to the jewellery and watch sector. With global data on consumer expenditure from 2003 and forecasted to 2013, plus profiles of 10 key industry operators, this unique report provides invaluable information for all participants in the jewellery sector, enabling them to understand the challenges they face and develop winning strategies with confidence. Read more or order.
   
• Global Luxury Retailing
  In spite of concerns around war, terrorism, rising interest rates, falling economies and stock market declines, luxury retailing is a global business that has huge growth potential from fast developing markets including China and India. Benchmark the performance of the global luxury market and its key players and understand the key issues and drivers of the market and the strategies needed to succeed with this new report. Read more or order.
   
• Global Department Stores Retailers
  Use this report to understand the key issues and drivers within the global department store marketplace; identify growth opportunities and benchmark the performance of regions and key players within them. Read more or order.
   
• Global Airport Retailing. -NEW!
  Increasing globalisation of world trade, strong economic development and the on-going proliferation of low-cost airlines have fuelled substantial growth in air travel. This has led to unprecedented growth in global airport retailing over the past five years. Read more or order.

Verdict Country Reports

Verdict publish a series of detailed country-specific reports on Key European markets

• Retailing in Central & Eastern Europe 2008 -NEW!
  Retailing in Central & Eastern Europe 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides extensive analysis on the growing CEE retail market including insight into the dynamics of the market and authoritative analysis of the leading retailers. It also identifies the key issues in the market and highlights the main opportunities and threats going forward.
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• Retailing in Slovakia -NEW!
  Slovakia’s rapid retail growth can be attributed to the country’s significant macroeconomic improvement (GDP growth of more than 5.0% year-on-year for the last five years), rising household incomes and a reduction in unemployment. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Bulgaria -NEW!
  Despite being one of the smaller countries in Central & Eastern Europe, Bulgaria represents a significant opportunity for retailers. Bulgaria’s retail market by value has grown at a strong pace over the last five years, consistently registering strong double digit growth figures and rising by 144.0% since 2002 to P6.1bn in 2007. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in the Baltic States 2008 -NEW!
  In recent years the Baltic States have enjoyed some of the highest GDP growth rates in the EU. The Baltic Tiger countries’ boom started around the turn of the century on the back of economic reforms and liberalisation, which helped to attract foreign investment and drove economic growth of the region. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Hungary
  Retailing in Hungary 2008 is a new brief published by Verdict Research that analyses the past 5 years of retail growth in Hungary. This report provides insightful retailer profiles it includes comprehensive 10 year market datasets and 5 year forecasts for executives at all levels to understand the challenges and opportunities, and to help devise the strategies necessary to be a retail winner. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Romania
  Retailing in Romania 2008 is a new a report from Verdict Research that provides insightful retailer profiles. It includes comprehensive 10 year market datasets and 5 year forecasts for executives at all levels to understand the challenges and opportunities, and to help devise the strategies necessary to be a retail winner. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in the Czech Republic
  Retailing in the Czech Republic 2008 is a new report from Verdict Research that provides insightful retailer profiles it includes comprehensive 10 year market datasets and 5 year forecasts for executives at all levels to understand the challenges and opportunities, and to help devise the strategies necessary to be a retail winner.. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Poland
  Retailing in Poland 2008 is a new report from Verdict Research that provides insightful retailer profiles, it includes comprehensive 10 year market datasets and 5 year forecasts for executives at all levels to understand the challenges and opportunities, and to help devise the strategies necessary to be a retail winner. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Spain
  Retailing in Spain 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides accurate insights into the key trends and future developments for Spain’s retail sector and in-depth analysis of the main operators in the market. It also offers new insights into the strategies for growth in a challenging and competitive market environment through its detailed analysis of the opportunities in the country. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Italy
  Italy has one of the highest concentrations of independent specialists in Europe, a declining and ageing population, a stagnating economy and a greater degree of bureaucracy and regulation than many EU countries. Against this background retail is changing. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in France
  Despite a relatively buoyant retail market with all sectors showing growth in recent years consumers’ disposable incomes have been squeezed by high average basket costs in France. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Germany
  The German retail market has faced difficult times recently and following some reforms, the German retail sector is on the path to recovery. With unemployment at its lowest for years combined with wage increases across the board, the situation is looking better for consumer spending. Read more or buy.
   
• Retailing in Ireland
  With major new shopping centres lifting customer spend and a relaxation of store size limits enabling development, Ireland remains a land of opportunity for retailers. Read more or buy.

For a full list of all Verdict publications please click here.