Nielsen Wire » July 2008 http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire Consumer Insights, News, Research & Reports Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 U.K. Value Food Sales Slow Between July and October http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/uk-value-food-sales-slow-between-july-and-october/ http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/uk-value-food-sales-slow-between-july-and-october/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:48:20 +0000 admin http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=2651 Growth (by value) of food sales at British supermarkets slowed to 5.4% during the 12 weeks ending October 4, compared with the same period in 2007, Nielsen reported Tuesday.

Flagging sales in September, when growth dipped to 4.5% — a full percentage point below August growth levels, drove the declines.

“Shoppers are still trading down,” Mike Watkins, senior manager, retailer services, Nielsen noted.  “Family shoppers in particular, are trying to save money, with 70% saying on they are looking to economize on grocery shopping — up from 63% in June.” 

Among the top UK food retailers, Tesco remained the dominant value retailer, with a 28.3% share of grocery market spending during 12-week period ending October 4, 2008 — up 4.8% over the chain’s 28.0% share of value sales during the same period last year.

Meanwhile, Asda widened its lead in value sales over Sainsbury (13.9% share), achieving a 15.4% share of value food sales (and 8.3% year over year value growth) versus its 2007 share (14.7%).

Morrisons recorded the strongest year-over-year value sales growth of the top four food retailers (+9.6%), while Iceland showed the strongest overall growth (14.5%) during the 12-week period.

Rank
(by share of grocery sales)		 Retailers Share of Grocery Sales:
12 Weeks Ending
Oct. 6, 2007		 Share of Grocery Sales:
12 Weeks Ending
Oct. 4, 2008		 % Change: Values Sales
1 Tesco 28.0% 28.3% 4.8%
2 Asda 14.7% 15.4% 8.3%
3 Sainsbury 14.0% 13.9% 3.4%
4 Morrisons 9.7% 10.3% 9.6%
5 Co-op 6.3% 6.1% 1.2%
6 Waitrose 3.4% 3.3% 0.7%
7 M&S 3.7% 3.6% -1.0%
8 Somerfield 3.6% 3.5% 1.6%
9 Iceland 1.6% 1.7% 14.5%
Source: The Nielsen Company (July 7 – October 6, 2008 and July 5 – October 4, 2008).

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AT&T Worldnet Search showed the largest year-over-year growth (+210%) for that time period. 

Provider Searches
(in 000’s)		 Year-Over-Year
Growth		 Share
of Searches
All Search 7,996,956 3% 100.0%
Google Search 4,812,974 16% 60.2%
Yahoo! Search 1,393,723 -11% 17.4%
MSN/Windows Live Search 951,882 -10% 11.9%
AOL Search 369,611 -9% 4.6%
Ask.com Search 162,337 13% 2.0%
Comcast Search 45,511 22% 0.6%
My Web Search 43,085 -38% 0.5%
AT&T Worldnet Search 33,128 210% 0.4%
NexTag Search 21,218 5% 0.3%
Dogpile.com Search 17,270 -33% 0.2%
Source: The Nielsen Company (July 1, 2008 – July 31, 2008)

Search providers are ranked by the total number of search queries conducted at the provider.

Read coverage of Nielsen’s findings on CNET, Silicon Alley Insider, and in Mediaweek. 

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