In order to provide you, the client, with sound, reasoned and informed advice, FSP has at its fingertips a vast array of data sources, including its own Retail Database.
External access to this retail intelligence is provided via FSP product, SnapShop. Membership of SnapShop is available to all and is provided at various levels, tailored to suit your needs.
On SnapShop, you will find:
About
FSP provides a fascia image and a synopsis of the retailer, a link to their website, their merchandise category, predominant customer group and price stance and links to parent, subsidiary and sister companies
Contacts
FSP sources Head Office contact details, along with names, job titles and email addresses for key management contacts where available
Accounts
FSP has been monitoring the published accounts of retailers for a number of years. Available on SnapShop is the key financial data from the accounts as filed with Companies House, including turnover, gross profit and operating profit. FSP’s bespoke analysis also includes some relevant measures of financial health, the key summary measure being the Wealth Creation Index (P2), which is defined by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) as the ratio of Value Added to the costs of employees and depreciation
Find out more about the financial health of retailers here.
Stores
FSP defines the distribution of a retailer and provides information on the retail formats operated, along with outlet numbers and guideline figures for sales per outlet, sales area and sales density
Sales
Utilising the information already held under Accounts and supplementing this with press reports and trading statements, FSP provides annual, half-yearly, quarterly and weekly sales results, quoting, where available, the turnover figure, with the total and like-for-like change. Where divisional information is available, this is also quoted
Articles
Summarising articles from the press, FSP provides a history of what’s making news for each retailer
Rent
FSP provides a small overview of rent deals, with a link to the National Survey of local Shopping Patterns to define the town rank
SnapShop retailer intelligence is summarised for all members in the SnapShop Monthly newsletter and is supplemented by relevant retail and economic statistics. The SnapShop Blog provides a seriously lighthearted view from our Web Editor on a hot retail topic.
Membership starts from as little as £96+VAT per year, and is also available on a PAYG basis! Please visit the SnapShop Membership page to find out more.
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A very useful way of keeping up to date with what's going on in retail.
Charles Denton
Property Director
Cornish Bakehouse