Lockdown
08/2022
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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Lockdown
02/2022
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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Business Improvement Districts
12/2021
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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