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Beauclair Data have ranked 62 Nationwide Cites based on key performance indicators for growth; Retail spend, Customer numbers and Transaction volumes. We have looked at trends YTD 2023 vs YTD 2022 and YTD 2023 vs YTD 2019. There is clear evidence of stronger Northern Growth with 8 of the Top 10 Scoring Cities being North […]
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August 2022 may be the month in which the cost-of-living crisis finally caught up with city centre retail. The recovery of city centres after lockdown has lagged national trends for retail. City centre retail recovered more slowly from lockdowns than online and local retail. But until July 2022, city centre retail sales grew even as […]
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Beauclair’s data for July 2022, which we have just released to our clients, shows that July was the strongest month for retail sales in city centres since the end of lockdown. This is based on data for our client cities and the cities they have chosen to monitor as their peers and competitors. On average, […]
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The Omicron wave disrupted city centre sales, pushing sales back down below their 2019 levels for the period November 2021 to January 2022. The average city lost 1.2 weeks of sales with medium-sized cities suffering the most. Food & Drink and Entertainment were the worst hit sectors, losing 1.3 and 1.7 weeks of sales respectively. […]
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Beauclair has provided much of the data behind a new Centre for Cities report, “Cities Outlook 2022”, which was launched on Monday 25th January. This year the report looks in-depth at the state of UK high streets to get a sense of the short-term impact of the pandemic on Britain’s town and city centres and the […]
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Beauclair has just submitted its reports on November’s retail sales to its Business Improvement District (BID) clients. Most city centres that we monitor showed strong recovery in September and October, with sales ahead of the same months in 2019. November’s figures, however, showed that this recovery might have been stalling, even before the Omicron variant […]
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Beauclair’s data, prepared for the Centre for Cities’ High Street Recovery Tracker, shows that city centre retail sales have now recovered to pre-covid lockdown levels. Average weekly sales are now four times the level of spend during the January-March lockdown. Food and Drink is by far the most important retail sector driving that recovery, with […]
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