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CPI

This coverage explores the impact of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) on UK retail operations, strategy, and planning. Reporting highlights inflation trends, price pressures, consumer behaviour shifts, and their implications for pricing, margins, and demand. Designed for retail executives, finance teams, and managers, the content supports informed decisions around cost management, stock planning, and competitive positioning in an inflation-sensitive market.

CPI

This coverage explores the impact of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) on UK retail operations, strategy, and planning. Reporting highlights inflation trends, price pressures, consumer behaviour shifts, and their implications for pricing, margins, and demand. Designed for retail executives, finance teams, and managers, the content supports informed decisions around cost management, stock planning, and competitive positioning in an inflation-sensitive market.

Retail sector could face £137m rates hike next year

September’s headline rate of inflation is set to cause more business rates increases in…

Shop price inflation pushed up by non-food price rises

Shop price inflation increased by 0.8% year-on-year in May, with non-food inflation also…

Arcadia secures help from HSBC

Arcadia, which is owned by Phillip Green, has secured help from HSBC in order to reassure…

Philip Green proposes to halve Arcadia pension payments

Sir Philip Green is seeking to halve the annual contributions to the Arcadia Group’s pension…

UK inflation hits two-year low in January

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) 12-month rate fell to 1.8% in January 2019, down from 2.1%…

West End retailers face £45m rates hike in April

Retailers located in London’s West End are set to face a £45m rates tax increase in April,…

Carnage on the shop floor

The pressure on the retail sector has been a consistent staple for investors since the end…

Retail sector ‘to face £186.45m business rates increase next April’

Retail firms will see business rates increase by £186.45 next April for the year 2019/20,…

Shop price deflation comes to an end in August

Shop prices entered inflationary territory in August for the first time in over five years,…

UK consumer price inflation falls in February

The consumer price inflation (CPI) rate fell from 2.7% in January to 2.5% in February 2018,…