British Retail Consortium (BRC)

UK's Total Retail Footfall Down 1.6% Year-On-Year: BRC

Total retail footfall for August in the UK has declined 1.6% year-on-year, while high-street footfall dropped 2% year-on-year, according to the latest data...

UK Retailers Welcome Debate On Sale Of Energy Drinks To Children

The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents UK retailers, has welcomed the call for a public consultation on the sale of energy drinks to childre...

BRC: UK Must Avoid A 'Cliff-Edge' Brexit Scenario At All Costs

The British Retail Consortium has warned that the UK needs to urgently put in place measures to avoid a 'cliff-edge' Brexit, to avoid the country's departu...

BRC: Post-Brexit Controls Could Be 'Just As Damaging' As Tariffs.

Additional checks and controls (‘non-tariff barriers’) applied to goods imported into the UK from the EU post-Brexit could be "just as dam...

UK Retailers Making ‘Good Progress’ In Response To Sugar Tax

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that UK retailers are ‘fully committed’ to improving the health of their consumers, following the...

UK Baker Greggs Warns On Profit After Dip In Demand

British baker Greggs warned on Wednesday that profit for 2018 was likely to fall short of expectations and be at a similar level to 2017, blaming a dip in...

Bad Weather Sees UK Retail Footfall Drop 6.0% In March

A double salvo of winter storms in March caused retail footfall in the UK to drop by 6.0% in March, which was a substantial decline on the 1.3% increase in...

Sorry Chancellor, The Picture Still Looks Fairly Bleak, Says BRC

The British Retail Consortium has said that the economic picture for the UK remains 'fairly bleak', despite a somewhat optimistic set of forecasts outlined...