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MAPS : Food Retailing Industry: November 2002

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This report covers: food retailing Industry, non-specialised food stores, home delivery, expnasion, in, Ireland, price cutting, price deflation, hypermarkdets, megastores, convenience-store format, convenience stores, longer opening hours, loyalty schemes, petrol, online shopping, organics,alliances with petrol retailers,

companies and brand names covered include: ASDA, Safeway, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Iceland, Aldi Stores, Kwik Save, Stores, Netto Foodstores, Somerfield, Waitrose, Wm Morrison, Supermarkets,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MARKET SIZE	1
Retail Sales Through
Non-Specialised Food Stores	1
Value of Food Retailing	1
Share of Consumer Expenditure	1
MARKET SECTORS	2
KEY NOTE
CONSUMER RESEARCH	3
MARKET LEADERS	3
KEY TRENDS	4
THE FUTURE	4
1. Market Overview
INTRODUCTION	5
Definition	5
Overview	6
MARKET SIZE	7
Household Income and
Expenditure	7
Table 1.1: UK Average Weekly Household Income (£),
1996/1997-2000/2001	7
Table 1.2: UK Average Weekly Household Expenditure by Category (£), 1996/1997-2000/2001	8
Retail Sales Through
Non-Specialised Food Stores	9
Table 1.3: UK Sales by Non-Specialised Food Stores and All Retail Sales
at Current Prices (£bn and %),
1997-2001	9
Table 1.4: UK Sales by Non-Specialised Food Stores and All Retail Sales
at Constant 1995 Prices
(£bn and %), 1997-2001	10
Value of Food Retailing	10
Table 1.5: The UK Food-Retailing Market by Sector at Current Prices
(£m and %), 1997-2001	11
INDUSTRY STRUCTURE	11
Number of Companies	11
Table 1.6: Number of UK VAT-Registered Non-Specialised Food-Retailing Businesses by Turnover
(£000 and number), 1998-2002	12
Large and Small Food-Retailing Businesses	13
Table 1.7: UK Sales of Large and
Small Non-Specialised Food Stores
at Current Prices (£bn and %),
1993-2001	13
Employment	13
Table 1.8: Employment by Non-Specialised Food Stores in the UK
by Sex (000), June 2000-2002	14
Foreign Ownership	14
Trade Associations	15
British Retail Consortium	15
Institute of Grocery Distribution	15
BUYING BEHAVIOUR	15
Frequency of Food Shopping	15
Table 1.9: Frequency of Food Shopping (% of households),
2002	16
Most Popular Shopping Day	16
Table 1.10: Most Popular Shopping Day (% of households), 2002	16
Travelling Distance to Regular
Major Shop	17
Table 1.11: Travelling Distance to Regular Major Shop
(% of households), 2002	17
Transport Used for Regular
Major Shop	17
Table 1.12: Transport Used for
Regular Major Shop
(% of households), 2002	17
Weekly Expenditure	18
Table 1.13: Weekly Expenditure on Grocery Items for Eating at Home
(% of households), 2002	18
Table 1.14: Detailed Breakdown of Weekly Expenditure on Grocery
Items for Eating at Home
(% of households), 2002	19
Type of Store Used for
Food Shopping	19
Table 1.15: Type of Store Used for Food Shopping
(% of households), 2002	19
Customer Profiles	20
Table 1.16: Major Regular Shop — Customer Profiles by Sex and Age
(% of adults), 2002	20
KEY TRENDS AND PROSPECTS	21
New Store Formats	21
New Products	21
Price versus Convenience	22
Customer Loyalty Schemes	22
PEST ANALYSIS	23
Political Factors	23
Economic Factors	26
Social Factors	26
Technological Factors	28
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE	29
The Leading World Markets	29
Table 1.17: Retail Grocery Markets
for Selected Countries by Value
($bn), 2000	30
The Leading Food Retailers
in Europe	30
Table 1.18: The Leading Food Retailers in Europe by Value of European Sales (ebn), September 2002	30
Characteristics of European
Food Markets	31
2. Key Note Consumer Research
INTRODUCTION	33
Methodology	33
Overview of Results	33
Table 2.1: Attitudes Towards Grocery Shopping (% of respondents),
2002	34
USE OF SUPERMARKETS AND DISCOUNTERS FOR THE
REGULAR GROCERY SHOP	36
Table 2.2: Use of Supermarkets and Discounters for the Regular Grocery Shop (% of respondents), 2002	38
USE OF CONVENIENCE STORES AND PETROL FORECOURT STORES FOR FOOD SHOPPING	40
Table 2.3: Use of Convenience Stores and Petrol Forecourt Stores for
Food Shopping (% of respondents), 2002	42
FREQUENCY OF
FOOD SHOPPING	44
Table 2.4: Frequency of Food Shopping (% of respondents),
2002	46
IMPORTANCE OF PRICE AND CONVENIENCE IN CHOICE OF
FOOD RETAILER	48
Table 2.5: Importance of Price and Convenience in Choice of Food Retailer (% of respondents), 2002	50
IMPORTANCE OF A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS AND ATTITUDE TO OWN-LABEL PRODUCTS	52
Table 2.6: Importance of a Wide Range of Products and Attitude to Own-Label Products
(% of respondents), 2002	54
PURCHASE OF NON-FOOD ITEMS AND USE OF HOME DELIVERY SERVICES	56
Table 2.7: Purchase of Non-Food
Items and Use of Home Delivery Services (% of respondents), 2002	58
PERCEPTION OF VALUE OFFERED BY DISCOUNT STORES
AND CONVENIENCE STORES	60
Table 2.8: Perception of Value Offered by Discount Stores and Convenience Stores (% of respondents), 2002	62
PETROL FORECOURT STORES
AND THEIR FOOD OFFER/
NONE OF THESE	64
Table 2.9: Petrol Forecourt Stores and Their Food Offer/None of These
(% of respondents), 2002	65
3. Competitor Analysis
THE MARKETPLACE	67
Market Shares	67
Table 3.1: The UK’s Leading Food Retailers by Market Share
by Value (%), June 2001	67
Diversification	68
ASDA	68
Safeway	68
Sainsbury’s	68
Tesco	69
MARKET LEADERS	69
ASDA Group Ltd	69
Safeway PLC	70
J Sainsbury PLC	71
Tesco PLC	72
Table 3.2: Tesco PLC — International Store Portfolio (number and million square feet), 2002/2003	74
ADVERTISING AND
PROMOTION	75
Table 3.3: Main Media Advertising Expenditure by the UK’s
Leading Food Retailers (£000),
Year Ending June 2002	75
4. Supermarkets
INTRODUCTION	77
Definition	77
Overview	77
KEY TRENDS	77
Price-Cutting	77
Price Deflation	78
Internationalisation and European/Global Sourcing	78
A Wider Non-Food Offer	78
Own Brands and Sub-Brands	78
Hypermarkets/Megastores	79
Table 4.1: Number of Hypermarkets/Megastores Owned by the UK’s Leading Food Retailers,
First Quarter 2001 and 2002	79
Development of
Convenience-Store Formats	80
Longer Opening Hours	80
Loyalty Schemes	80
Petrol	80
Overseas Expansion	81
Online Shopping	81
Table 4.2: Online Shopping Services Offered by the UK’s Major Food Retailers, September 2002	81
Organics	82
Financial Services	82
Table 4.3: Financial Services Offered by the UK’s Major Food Retailers, September 2002	83
Distribution/Supply-Chain Improvements	84
MARKET SIZE	84
Table 4.4: Value of Food Retailing Through Supermarkets
at Current Prices (£m and %),
1997-2001	84
MARKET STRUCTURE	85
Number of Stores and
Employment	85
Table 4.5: The UK’s Leading Supermarket Chains
by Number of UK Stores and Employees, 2002	85
MAJOR PLAYERS	86
ASDA Group Ltd	86
Iceland (The Big Food Group PLC)	87
Marks and Spencer PLC	88
Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC	90
Safeway PLC	91
J Sainsbury PLC	93
Somerfield PLC	95
Tesco PLC	96
Waitrose Ltd	98
BUYING BEHAVIOUR	99
FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006	99
Table 4.6: Forecast Value of Food Retailing Through Supermarkets
at Current Prices (£m and %),
2002-2006	100
5. Discounters
INTRODUCTION	101
Definition	101
Overview	101
KEY TRENDS	102
No-Frills Approach	102
Limited Product Ranges	102
Focus on Own-Brand Goods	102
Non-Food Offer	102
Press Advertising	102
No Home Shopping or
Home Delivery	103
Stiffer Price Competition	103
Expansion in Ireland	103
MARKET SIZE	103
Table 5.1: Value of Food Retailing Through Discounters at Current Prices (£m and %), 1997-2001	103
MARKET STRUCTURE	104
Number of Stores	104
Table 5.2: The UK’s Leading Discounters by Number of Stores,
2002	104
MAJOR PLAYERS	104
Aldi Stores Ltd	104
Kwik Save Stores Ltd	105
Lidl Ltd	106
Netto Foodstores Ltd	107
BUYING BEHAVIOUR	107
FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006	108
Table 5.3: Forecast Value of Food Retailing Through Discounters
at Current Prices (£m and %),
2002-2006	108
6. Convenience Stores
INTRODUCTION	109
Definition	109
Overview	110
KEY TRENDS	110
‘Supermarket Convenience Stores’	110
CTN Stores Converting to
Convenience Stores	110
Growth of Symbol Groups	111
Increased Professionalism and Investment	111
Decline in Independent
Convenience Stores	111
Table 6.1: The Convenience-Store Market by Type of Outlet
(£m, number of stores and £),
2002	111
Alliances with Petrol Retailers	112
Expanded Range of Services	112
From Distress Purchases to
Top-Up Shopping	112
Food to Go	112
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Still Important	113
Little Advertising Expenditure	113
MARKET SIZE	113
Table 6.2: Value of Food Retailing Through Convenience Stores
at Current Prices (£m and %),
1997-2001	113
By Type of Store	113
Table 6.3: Value of Food Retailing Through Convenience Stores
by Type of Outlet at Current Prices (£m and %), 2000-2002	114
MARKET STRUCTURE	114
Number of Stores	114
Table 6.4: Number of Convenience Stores in the UK by Type,
2000-2002	115
Trade Associations	115
Alliance of Independent Retailers	115
Association of Convenience Stores	115
National Federation of
Retail Newsagents	115
MAJOR PLAYERS	116
Table 6.5: Selected Leading Convenience-Store Groups
by Number of Outlets, 2002	116
Alldays PLC	116
Budgens Stores Ltd	117
Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd	118
Costcutter Supermarkets
Group Ltd	119
Londis (Holdings) Ltd	120
Table 6.6: Services Offered by
Londis Retailers
(number of stores), 2002	120
Spar (UK) Ltd	121
T&S Stores PLC	122
TM Group Holdings PLC	123
Unwins Ltd	123
BUYING BEHAVIOUR	124
FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006	124
Table 6.7: Forecast Value of Food Retailing Through Convenience
Stores at Current Prices
(£m and %), 2002-2006	125
7. Petrol Forecourt Retailers
INTRODUCTION	127
Definition	127
Overview	127
KEY TRENDS	128
Rationalisation of Forecourt Sites	128
Table 7.1: Number of Forecourt Sites Operated by the UK’s Leading
Petrol Retailers, December 2000
and 2001	128
Alliances Between Oil Companies
and Food Retailers	128
Table 7.2: The UK’s Leading
Forecourt Multiples — Number of Sites and Retail Partnerships,
Dec-01	129
Retail Mix	130
Table 7.3: Average Forecourt
Product Mix by Value (%), 2001	130
Development of ‘Food to Go’	130
Limitations of the Format	131
Increase in Alcohol Licences	131
Distribution	131
Advertising/Loyalty Schemes	131
MARKET SIZE	132
Table 7.4: Value of Food Retailing Through Petrol Forecourts
at Current Prices (£m and %),
1997-2001	132
MARKET STRUCTURE	132
Number of Sites	132
Table 7.5: Number of Forecourt Sites by Type of Ownership,
2000 and 2001	133
MAJOR PLAYERS	133
BP PLC	133
Esso UK Ltd	134
Shell UK Ltd	135
Texaco Ltd	135
TotalFinaElf UK Ltd	136
BUYING BEHAVIOUR	136
FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006	137
Table 7.6: Forecast Value of Food Retailing Through Petrol Forecourts
at Current Prices (£m and %),
2002-2006	137
8. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
STRENGTHS	139
WEAKNESSES	139
OPPORTUNITIES	140
THREATS	140
9. The Future
INTRODUCTION	141
FORECASTS 2002 TO 2006	141
Table 9.1: The Forecast UK Food-Retailing Market by Sector
at Current Prices (£m and %),
2002-2006	142
10. Further Sources
Associations	143
Publications	144
Directories	145
General Sources	145
Bonnier Information Sources	146
Government Publications	147
Other Sources	148

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