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Retail

With many challenges facing the retail industry from changing consumer demands, slowdown of growth in consumer spending, margin pressures, property and branding issues, increasing legislation and regulation and managing growth it becomes a non-stop challenge to achieve strategic advantage in today's competitive retail marketplace.

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KPMG LLP (UK) and the British Retail Consortium
KPMG is an associate member of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and sponsors and administers the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.

Thought Leadership
We are continually investing in the sector, developing intellectual capital and driving thought leadership. We are regular commentators on sector trends and issues in trade and national media, and speak at national and international conferences on the retail and food sectors.

We publish insights into numerous aspects of the sector and provide information on the latest hot topics within the retail industry.

KPMG hosts a series of retail specific events throughout the year. Events range from retail networking events and dinners. Our monthly retail e-newsletter details any of our forthcoming events, if you are interested in finding out more please contact us.

KPMG's Global Consumer Market’s practice publishes a bi-annual magazine, Consumer Currents, which discusses the latest trends and issues within consumer markets.

Our Global Consumer Market’s practice has also published a newsletter, Issues Monitor: Sharing Knowledge on the Food, Drinks and Consumer Goods Industry. This pulls together and share’s KPMG’s industry-wide knowledge to help you quickly and easily get briefed on the issues that impact your sector. For our latest edition please click here. This publication is also kept on our publications library.

KPMG/CIES Survey 2008 – In June 2008 over 750 senior members of the global food, drink and retail industry gathered to attend the CIES World Food Business Summit in Munich, Germany. This annual event carried the theme of ‘Growth and Sustainability: Building profit with responsibility’, bringing to the fore one of the most pertinent issues driving the industry at the moment.

KPMG International and CIES took the opportunity to survey this audience through the course of the summit to provide an insight into the industry’s growth plans and strategy, and its approach and response to sustainability.

Please click here to read the findings and the full report. This is also available within our publications library.

Please click on this link http://www.kpmg.co.uk/industries/cm/r/pubs.cfm  to access our publication website.

Retail e-Newsletter
On a monthly basis we produce a Retail e-Newsletter which includes highlights from the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, Helen Dickinson’s Retail Bulletin Column(s), Hot Topics and information on future events. To view the most recent newsletter please click here. If you would like to be included on this mailing list please contact us.

Retail Think Tank
The KPMG/SPSL Retail Think Tank (RTT) has been conceived and created to provide the authoritative, credible and most trusted window on what is really happening in retail and to develop thought leadership on the key areas influencing the future of retailing in the UK. The intended audience for the outputs of the RTT is primarily retailers as well as anyone with an interest in all aspects of retail and retailing.

KPMG was one of the founder members and Helen Dickinson, UK Head of Retail at KPMG is one of the members.

Please click here to access the RTT website where you will find further information on its purpose, other members and copies of the latest published outputs. For a downloadable PDF copy of the RTT Annual Review please click here.

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