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Sales Give Lift To Difficult Trading

The January sales helped give a much needed sales lift to UK retailers, but the respite proved to be short-lived in a continuing tough consumer environment. The monthly BRC/KPMG Sales Monitor showed UK sales up by 0.5 per cent on a like-for-like basis in January, with total year-on-year growth of 3.5 per cent. The three-month growth rates was...

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Sharp drop in retail sales

The pattern of sales recorded by the British Retail Consortium-KPMG Sales Monitor for the month of March recorded a decrease in retail sales of 0.6% on a like-for-like basis, and a growth of 2.1% on a total basis, compared with a year earlier. The three-month trend rates of growth decreased from 2.5% in February to 1.6% in March for...