Footfall
Footfall is a vital metric for the UK jewellery trade, directly impacting retail performance and shaping strategies for high street and shopping centre locations. For jewellers, suppliers, and trade professionals, understanding footfall trends helps optimise store layouts, marketing campaigns, and staffing during peak periods. Jewellery Focus provides detailed coverage on footfall patterns, consumer behaviour, retail analytics, and insights into how economic and seasonal factors influence in-store traffic.
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Mar- 2018 -1 MarchEvents
Q&A: How Hong Kong’s jewellery trade shows are making progress
The Hong Kong International Diamond, Gem & Pearl Show this year features a dedicated lab-grown diamonds and synthetic gemstones section for the first time. In light of this development, and the fact that it is the biggest iteration yet of the event, we put a few questions about growth and…
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Feb- 2018 -12 FebruaryRetailers
Retail footfall takes a hit with Scotland showing sharpest decline
Footfall in January decreased by 1.6% year-on-year, showing a deeper decrease than the rate seen for January 2017, according to new figures. New British Retail Consortium (BRC) data showed a drop in footfall across all UK regions, with the sharpest decline being seen in Scotland (4.6 %). Despite footfall falling…
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Jan- 2018 -15 JanuaryEconomy
High street sees sharpest footfall decline in four years
New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard show footfall in the month of December suffered its sharpest decline since March 2013 Total UK retail footfall fell by 3.5% compared with December 2016, while the high street saw a sharper drop, down by 4.6%. Shopping centres suffered a…
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2 JanuaryNews
Festive footfall disappoints despite increase on New Years Day
Footfall dropped by -10.5% on New Year’s Eve compared with the previous year, according to new retail footfall data. Springboard, a provider of automated footfall monitoring services, reported footfall dropped significantly and unexpectedly on New Year’s Eve across the UK, declining by -10.5% over the 24 hours and by -7.2%…
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Dec- 2017 -18 DecemberEconomy
Billion-pound online spend predicted for Boxing Day
Online retail spend on Boxing Day will exceed a billion pounds for the first time, according to new figures. The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) estimates that consumers will spend as much as £1.03bn through online shopping this year on Boxing Day, a 7.9% increase on 2016 when total…
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Nov- 2017 -24 NovemberE-Commerce
Black Friday e-sales expected to surpass Boxing Day by 77%
Black Friday week total online sales are expected to reach £7bn this year, a 164% increase on 2014 and 77% higher than expected Boxing day total sales, according to global real estate advisor Colliers International. This is reinforced by the decrease in the number of Brits shopping on Boxing Day…
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Oct- 2017 -31 OctoberRetailers
LinkStreet attracts jewellery and fashion brands to ‘pop-up hub’
Retail developer Hammerson has announced that LinkStreet in Birmingham has attracted a string of new pop-up shops as it continues to aim to be a hub for small, independent retailers. Summer & Silver, local jewellers currently based in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter, will be taking a unit until the end of…
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16 OctoberRetailers
Retail footfall drops in September
UK retail footfall dropped in September, with weekly average traffic 6.9% lower than in August. The month also rounded off Q3, in which footfall fell by 4.1% compared to 2016 – this was following a revival in Q2 when the deficit stood at only 1.0%. Ipsos Retail Performance, global retail…
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Aug- 2017 -22 AugustRetailers
David Mellor Jewellers relocates after 9 years
David Mellor Jewellers will be relocating from its current shop in Waterloo Court to Andover city centre later this year. Developments are taking place at an old Carphone Warehouse store in the Chantry Centre, where the jewellers will be relocating to. Amy Mellor, manager, said: “After a great nine years…
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14 AugustEconomy
Retail parks outperform high street and shopping centres
Retail parks showed a growth in footfall in July, with high streets and shopping centres suffering a decrease, figures from retail footfall analysts Springboard show. Footfall on the high streets fell by 2.1% which shopping centres showed a 1.3% decline. Retail parks saw a 1.7% increase. July was the fourth…
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