Top 15 European Retailers to Capture 66% of Sales Growth to 2014

Waltham, MA, November 05, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Retailnet Group, LLC,(RNG) a leading insight and advisory firm specializing in forward-thinking guidance pertaining to retail growth strategies and capabilities has announced the release of its updated European retail forecast. This forecast, a product of RNG’s Trade Analytics services is based in RetailNet Group’s customer master database of every major chain retailer, both store and non store, across the globe. For the European Market this covers more than 200 major retailers, with more than 880 store banners operating in 41 countries. These retailers collectively operate more than 212,000 stores and represent over 47% of all retail sales across these geographies collectively. Companies such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Casino, Aldi, Schwartz (Lidl) and many others are prominantly featured. This distinctive database provides RNG's extensive client base with a comprehensive customer master with a 5 year forecast for each retailer and market out to 2014 for benchmarking and business planning.

RNG’s forecast highlights include:
1. Chain retailers’ share of formal retail sales continues to grow as retail leaders leverage scale and capability in the current recession.
2. The top retailers’ share of growth is accelerating as retailers develop greater capabilities and leverage scale. The top 15 retailers by growth (sales added) are forecasted to capture 66% of retail sales growth from a base share (2009) of 43%.
3. Discounter banners represent a significant component of future growth, with the top 15 European discounters with a modest 13% share of chain retail sales increasing their sales added capture from 25% to 30% to ratchet their chain retail share to 15% by 2014 in a very competitive retailing and slow economic growth market.
4. A continued slowdown in store growth –and shift of capital expenditures into regeneration and smaller formats is evident in the RNG forecasts. Discounters and other small box formats are growing while larger box formats have largely achieved saturation in Western Europe.
5. A continued shift in growth to RNG’s Level 5 Retailers – those breakout retailers who are building capabilities to both break away from competition and to reduce dependence on FMCG suppliers for the insights, innovations and marketing ideas to drive growth.

RNG’s world leading Trade Analytics services provide client subscribers with an on demand customer master with 5 year forecasts (to 2014), supported with extensive reporting and analysis.

About RetailNet Group
RNG is the leading insight and advisory firm with specialized expertise in forward-thinking guidance pertaining to retail growth strategies and capabilities. Our clients include leading retailers, branded manufacturers, and selected service providers.

We help our clients stay 48-60 months ahead of what will happen in retail by helping them spot, explain, and commercialize the most important trends, strategies, and retailer capabiltiies through forward thinking advice, subscription based analytics, and facilitated learning groups and workshops.

RNG’s subscription based services are reached through retailnetgroup.com where RNG provides its thought leadership reports on retailer growth strategies and capabilities, an extensive array of photo store tours searchable by market, retailer, and department, as well as RNG’s world class trade analytics reporting, database and analytic tools.

We have over 60 years of collective experience in retail strategy, brand leadership, operations, merchandising, and consumer marketing.

For more information please call Mark Byrd at 757-422-8586 or email mark@retailnetgroup.com

For slides/graphics behind the observations above contact Tim O’Connor at tim@retailnetgroup.com

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Retailnet Group LLC
Tim O'Connor
781-522-6787
tim@retailnetgroup.com