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Glynn Davis

A former fund management and venture capital specialist in the City, Glynn Davis is a regular correspondent for the Grocer magazine. He also writes for the Guardian, Financial Times and RetailWeek. His specific stock market recommendations appear in the Fleet Street Letter, the UK's longest-running investment newsletter.

 
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How Retailers Struggle to Be Green - by Glynn Davis

Retailers are trying to become “greener” businesses but profits remain the priority.


Girl Financial Power - by Glynn Davis

For the first time, women account for almost half the millionaires in the UK. What makes it surprising is that the number is growing by a hefty 11% per year, which means that women will overtake men within a very short time frame. Although there is no disputing the fact that the very richest among them have acquired their wealth through inheritance or from being the wives of rich husbands (or the ex-wives of rich husbands) the list is peppered with an increasing number who have built up their fortunes independently through the creation of their own successful organisations.


Online Businesses: 55-Plus Age Group Will Have Increasing Effect On Retail - by Glynn Davis

Who would have believed that in a little over a decade since the internet first emerged we are on the cusp of witnessing the 55-plus age group having the largest representation online. This is just one example of how the behaviour and shopping habits of older consumers has changed. Now they represent a particularly powerful demographic that will have an increasing effect on retail and leisure companies. According to Hitwise UK the over-55s accounted for 22% of UK visits to all categories of websites during the four week period to 12 May. This is stellar growth of 40% since 2005 and an even more impressive 54% since 2005.


Whole Foods Mania Hits London - by Glynn Davis

Who would have thought that a single shop could create so much interest within the retail industry and media? But this is certainly the case with the first Whole Foods Market store that opened in London on June 6. The US-based operator has brought its upmarket offer to the UK in order to tap into the current desire by consumers for authentic, healthy and high quality produce. We are not even talking the equivalent of a Waitrose here as Whole Foods is seriously upmarket and is understood to be benchmarking its offer and pricing against that gastro paradise Borough Market in South East London... What also makes the proposition interesting is its sheer size.


Climate Change And Its Serious Impact On Retail - by Glynn Davis

The changes to the temperature in the UK - with warmer summers and milder winters almost becoming the norm is having a great impact on trading patterns as consumer spending behaviour is radically affected by the weather. Glynn Davis looks at the impact of climate change on retail demand. Who wins and who loses as the summers heat up in the UK and the French consider producing Champagne in southern England.


Tesco Customer Insight Keeps Food Retailer On Top - by Glynn Davis

Its fair to say that Tescos insight into its customers is regarded as second to none in the retail world. From day one Tesco knew that a loyalty scheme would provide a whole lot more than simply allowing people to collect loyalty points to reduce their shopping bill. In fact this was never the point of the exercise because the point-accrual mechanism was simply the carrot to customers that would get them to dig out their loyalty cards whenever they visited a Tesco store, thereby enabling Tesco to collect data on them.But as other retailers launched their own loyalty programmes they soon recognised that collecting data is one thing but making sense of it and transforming it into customer intelligence is a completely different matter...


UK Gambling Market: A Good Investment? - by Glynn Davis

In spite of the US ban in online gaming, the outlook for UK gambling is a bright one with the market forecast to grow by over 30% in the next four years says Glynn Davis of The Fleet Street Letter. Read on to find out the runners and riders for tomorrows punter...


Smoking Ban Effect on UK Leisure Business - by Glynn Davis

In a less than five months time the UK introduces a smoking ban in public places. Fleet Street Letter writer Glynn Davies looks at the impact on the leisure business. How will pubs, hotels and bingo halls be affected when the Andy Capps finally gets pushed off their barstools...


Britain's supermarket price wars - by Glynn Davis

...We all know that the supermarkets have intermittently fought battles on prices over the years...The increased value is now being placed on branded foods is part of a fundamental shift in the food industry away from cheap priced foods and onto better quality goods, with the result that we are seeing the end of the price wars...


Dotcom mania returns: Big media versus cyber surfers - by Glynn Davis

...Theres no doubt about it, the big media companies are in a spin. They are under threat from a growing band of small, fleet-footed upstarts who are creating websites of user-generated content...and are facing a market where their audience of the future is drifting away in their droves...



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