About the Retail Futures Series

The Retail Futures Series

Verdict offers two forecasting products. Retail Futures Quarterly Forecasting Service and Retail Futures Annual Forecasts Reports.

Retail Futures Annual Forecasts

Widely regarded as the benchmark within their field, Verdict's annual forecast reports present five year forecasts and analysis for those planning corporate strategy over a longer horizon. Offering greater category coverage and projecting more market parameters than quarterly forecasts these forecasts provide an essential and reliable and trusted indicator of future market development

Verdict's Annual Forecasts contain:

• 10 year historic data and five year forecasts for market and category expenditure (including value, volume, inflation and share of total retail expenditure)
   
• 10 year back historic data and five year forecasts for retailers' specialist retailers covering sales values, store numbers, space growth, average sales densities, inflation, volume and like-for-like sales growth
   
• Analysis of key macroeconomic drivers and issues that will shape demand.
   
• In-depth analysis of key market issues which will shape the industry over the next five years including analysis by market category/ sub category and an examination of factors within the broader UK economy.

UK Retail Futures: Clothing & Footwear - NEW
This new annual forecast report analyses the prospects for each of the major categories and in the UK clothing and footwear market to help retailers and investors make informed decisions regarding the future of both the market and its key participants. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: DIY & Gardening - NEW
This report objectively analyses the key macroeconomic, social and consumer factors that shape DIY & gardening demand to provide detailed and reliable forecasts for the DIY sector. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Electricals - NEW
The competitive landscape in this sector is changing with non-specialists growing faster than the established electricals specialists who, over the next five years, will only open a limited amount of new sales space. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Food and Grocery - NEW
UK Retail Futures 2012: Food and Grocery is new report published by Verdict Research that provides an accurate and detailed five year forecast for the UK food & grocery sector. It complements Verdict’s sector reports by providing detailed market outlooks for the forecast period by analysing a host of economic, social, political and technological factors that determine demand.. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Furniture & Floorcoverings - NEW
This new report analyses the prospects for each of the major furniture and floorcoverings categories to help retailers and investors make informed decisions regarding the future of the UK market and its key players over the next five years. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Health & Beauty
Retailers that understand the dynamics of this market and the key growth drivers stand to do well. ‘UK Retail Futures 2012: Health & Beauty’ is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides comprehensive, authoritative analysis of the market going forward and supplies an extensive range of key data and metrics essential for participants to fully understand the dynamics of the market and form winning strategies. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Homewares - NEW
UK Retail Futures 2012: Homewares is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides comprehensive, authoritative analysis of the market going forward and supplies an extensive range of key data and metrics essential for participants to fully understand the dynamics of the market and form winning strategies. Read more or order.

UK Retail Futures: Sector Summary - NEW
UK Retail Futures 2012: Sector Summary is s new report published by Verdict Research that provides comprehensive and reliable forecasts for the retail sector. By examining and analysing a host of economic, social and political factors and modelling the impact of market-specific factors such as inflation/deflation, channel activity and shifting consumer preferences and provides an authoritative guide to the issues impacting the retail sector over the next five years.. Read more or order.

Retail Futures Quarterly Forecasts

Verdict's Retail Quarterly Forecasts are a unique dynamic forecasting tool which analyses the latest retail events as they happen and provides accurate projections of market demand and price pressures. This new interactive service, updated quarterly, covers 7 retail markets and 21 retail categories.

Verdict's Retail Futures Service will enable you to:

• Benchmark performance - in an increasingly dynamic retail world, external benchmarking is essential to set effective targets and maintain progress.
   
• Anticipate demand - providing you with reliable growth and inflation forecasts to help you understand supply and demand for your products.
   
• Exploit short term opportunities - enabling you to act decisively to events as they happen. A valuable complement to Verdict's respected annual forecasting reports.
   
• Understand the retail landscape and therefore your customers - Retail Futures provides unrivalled insight into the retailing landscape.

Subsectors included in Verdict's Quarterly Forecasts
 

 
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Retail Futures Forecasting Methodology

• Verdict uses a rigorous integrated forecasting model that assesses retail’s position within the broader UK economy while also taking full account of the performance of individual retail sectors and retailers.
   
• Our starting point for forecasting is to determine the outlook for the UK economy over the next five years. A key source for this Ernst & Young ITEM Club – a forum of independent economic analysts to which Verdict contributes that uses the Treasury’s own economic model to produce forecasts for key economic indicators. The factors that influence our expectations of retail spending are analysed in the Economic Forecasts section of this report.
   
• We also consider the performance of individual retailers. Combining our detailed knowledge of individual retailers’ businesses built up through 20 years of exclusive focus on the retail sector and regular high level high contact with retailers, we are able to map out how we expect them to perform. Using this analysis we can then aggregate retailer expectations and consider external factors relevant to each sector. Pan-retail factors that we consider include demographic change, consumer preferences, competitive pressures, operating cost increases and the availability of new retail space. We also calculate the effect of sector specific factors analysed in the Key Market Issues section.
   
• Once provisional forecasts have been calculated an internal analysts’ forum is held to challenge the validity of each of the forecasts and check that expectations of each retail sector are compatible with expectations of other retail sectors and for retail as a whole.

For further details on methodologies employed by Verdict Research, please see our methodologies page.