About our Location & Channel Reports

Verdict Location & Channel Reports

Channel Reports
Verdict's UK e-Retail is an authoritative guide to trends in retail's most dynamic channel. It combines extensive consumer research with market analysis to provide detailed analysis of consumer attitudes towards online shopping, market data for nine online sectors and analysis of key online players. Verdict's Mail Order Retailers provides full analysis of the major UK mail order retailers and the strategies that are adopting to remodel their businesses in a fast changing retail environment.

Location Reports
Verdict's location reports examine the issues surrounding the three main retail locations: Out-of-Town Retailing (focusing on retail parks and standalone warehouse stores), Town Centre Retailing (exploring trends in shopping centre and high street retailing) and Neighbourhood Retailing (examining the trends in convenience stores and retailers catering for a local populace).

Each location & Channel report provides the following:

• Detailed analysis of the dynamics of each location or channel and the key players within each.
• Discussion of key issues affecting each market
• (Online) store portfolio analysis including retailer best-practice case studies
• Key consumer trends, and which retailers are in the best position to capitalise on them.
• Comparisons across locations, channels and sectors utilising both current and historic market data

We publish the following 'Location & Channel' titles:

• UK e-Retail
  UK e-Retail 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that analyses the reasons behind the continued growth in online retailing and identifies strategies retailers should adopt in order to capitalise on the potential having an online presence provides, giving an objective assessment of all major online operators. With this report you will be able to identify the factors steering the development of Internet retailing over the next 5 years. Read more or order.
   
• UK Home Delivery & Fulfilment -NEW!
  UK Home Delivery & Fulfilment 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research analyses the dynamics of the home delivery market combined with detailed insight into consumer motivations. A survey of almost 2,000 consumers’ shopping habits provides insight across ten sectors and provides socio-demographic splits to help retailers better gauge changes in shopper's behaviour. Read more or order.
   
• UK Mail Order Retailers
  The advent of Internet shopping has left traditional mail order retailers playing catch-up with their more dynamic niche competitors, high street retailers with transactional online websites and pure players. New initiatives and new entrants, have led to the market returning to growth after four years of decline, but performance varies across operators and there are still significant challenges to overcome. Read more or order.
   
• UK Neighbourhood Retailing
  The neighbourhood market has become a key area for retailers, with consumer demand for convenience shopping growing and the fragmented market presenting growth opportunities. The leading grocers have continued their aggressive expansion in 2007. Read more or order.
   
• UK Out-of-Town Retailing
  This report examines the latest changes occurring in the out-of-town retail sector, those driven by both the market and retailers. This report details market sizes and trends and provides detailed analysis of the key out-of-town issues. Read more or order.
   
• European Out-Of-Town Retailing 2008
  Convergence is a major theme across business activities in the EU, however the European out-of-town market is still characterised by huge differences. These lie in development, ownership structure, retail formats, integration into a wider infrastructural framework, environmental standards, planning legislation and age and quality of stock. Read more or order.
   
• UK Town Centre Retailing
  UK Town Centre Retailing 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that examines the detailed key trends and future developments in UK town centre retail and insight into the major issues that retailers are facing. It provides in-depth analysis of the main operators in the town centre, and also looks at the UK’s leading town centres locations. It also reviews the pipeline of new shopping centre development, which remains the key driver of sales growth in the town centre over the next 5 years. Read more or order.
   

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