Retail Knowledge Bank’s most popular service is available on-line on a continually updated basis. Download the latest strategic profiles in pdf format of the UK’s Top 500 retailers, plus their trading fascias, subsidiaries etc. By updating the profiles as results are posted and major events occur we ensure you receive a uniquely useful and timely service. 

An annual subscription to the Top 500 on the web is just £495. The licence agreement for the on-line service is for a single user. Additional user licences are available for your colleagues at £50 each. Because of the sheer volume of information and analysis contained (approaching 2,000 pages), as well as the daily updating process, hard copy editions are no longer routinely printed.

To set up your subscription, please contact Robert Clark at Retail Knowledge Bank by e-mail (or call). A licence agreement with specific Terms and Conditions will be supplied to you and on receipt of it back with your signature, your log in and password will be issued. 

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The standard coverage of The UK’s Top 500 Retailers strategic profiles ensures that each profile is an essential reference source of unmatched competitive intelligence; succinct, informed corporate analysis; comment on the company’s future direction and management challenges; and its latest contact details. You will use this unique resource time and time again. It is incredibly easy to use, with the standard format for each of the 500 companies as follows:

Contact information – address, phone, website etc; senior management; leading shareholders

Company activities – history, background and development; store etc formats; products sold; indicative sector importance; any international interests

Financial data – Sales (including relevant breakdowns), profitability, margins, for at least 5 years; comment and analysis of the results plus latest sales trends

Store data – outlets, size and type of outlet by fascia (5 years); sales areas and estimated densities for at least half the companies (figures for more companies constantly being added); locations including geographical concentration plus commentary

Employment – employee totals (5 years), sales per employee, employee costs to sales ratio, plus commentary

Strategic direction – analysis and comment on plans for future development including store opening programmes and locations; new formats; particular challenges facing management; competitive strengths and threats. Existing subscribers tell us they find these unique analyses and insights for each company particularly valuable.

e-commerce – information on company websites including details of transactional sites, sales level and importance indicators, plus planned developments.