Lockdown
01/2022
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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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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High Streets Recovery Tracker
11/2021
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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Business Improvement Districts
11/2021
Is the retail media’s focus on footfall justified or is it an out-dated habit that needs to be dropped now that high quality sales data is available? A recent article in the Sheffield Telegraph proudly reported that the city centre’s footfall increased more in September than in 62 other cities, adding that this was likely […]
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