Consumers are expected to spend 1.3% or £1.07bn more from June to August as a direct result of the UK’s two major events
• With both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics sweeping the nation this summer, overall retail sales are expected show a year on year increase of 3.7% from £82bn (June – [...] View more ›
This summer alone, Britons will be charged almost £1 million a day for exceeding baggage limits
• 55% of consumers that exceeded their excess baggage allowance in 2011 incurred charges, a total of 3.8 million people. On average, limits were exceeded by 3.5 kilos costing a total of £186 million or £48 each [...] View more ›
21% of parents admit they don’t spend any time teaching their kids to cook
• One in five parents (21%) claim that teaching their children to cook is not a valuable use of time, 19% feel kids don’t need to learn as they cook for them and 12% think there are more important [...] View more ›
Retailers in London will see the biggest hike with a 9% increase in Sunday retail spend, accounting for almost half (47%) of the country’s total increase
• Extending Sunday opening hours by up to four hours in the eight week Olympic period is predicted to increase retail spend by £189.8 million, a 4.2% hike [...] View more ›
TOTAL RETAIL SALES TO RISE BY JUST 1.8% OVER THE SAME PERIOD
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. Worth €120bn in 2008, it grew by 67% to €200.52bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 18% year-on-year and representing 7.8% of total retail sales across [...] View more ›
British spend represents almost a third of all online goods sold in Europe[1]
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in the UK. Worth £33.96bn in 2008, it grew by 48% to £50.34bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 14% year-on-year and representing 12% of total UK [...] View more ›
Disappointed holidaymakers have made an average of £2.2 million worth of claims every month for the past year
• In total almost 74,000 travellers have been impacted by failing travel companies this year, racking up a total bill of £26 million in claims and repatriation costs[1]
• This is not as disastrous as 2010 when [...] View more ›
• The busiest high street shopping day this year is expected to be Saturday 17th December when 11 million Christmas consumers are set to spend £1.05bn[1] (£128 each)[2], just over £1.5 million per minute[3]
• On average, each UK household is predicted to spend a total of £682 this Christmas, £508 of which will [...] View more ›
Cautious shoppers will log on early this year to avoid the potential snow delays spending £17.7 million an hour, or £424 million in total on Monday 21st November – the busiest online shopping day of the year[1]
As manic Monday sweeps the nation, more than one third (37%) of busy Brits will carry out their online [...] View more ›
Almost 23% of all Christmas purchases will be made online, 11% of which will be on a mobile device
European household budgets set to rise marginally this Christmas, with families forecast to spend €605 on average, an increase of 1.4% on last year[1]
This Christmas, European households are expected to spend on average €344 on gifts, €187 [...] View more ›