Special reports
Access to exclusive in-depth research and analysis on an extensive breadth of retailer issues.
This library of Retail Week reports provides in-depth insight on a range of topics, from digital transformation to diversity and inclusion, to the influential people who are blazing a trail in retail.
Our latest reports
The Christmas Forecast
Exclusive data reveals how shoppers will spend in golden quarter.
The Great Store Reset
Solutions to help retail leaders set the right store strategy.
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Featuring exclusive research with 1,000 UK shoppers.
More special reports
The Retail Roadmap
Your practical guide to getting tech transformation right.
Retail 100 2025
Retail Week’s annual celebration of the industry’s most influential 100 leaders.
Browse, Buy & Beyond
Exclusive insights into the minds of 2,000 shoppers across Europe’s largest retail markets.
Tech Transformers
In a landscape of cost pressures, a changing post-Budget inflationary environment and mounting competition – how can retailers get tech investment right?
Supply Chain 2026
Your blueprint for investment decisions for optimum ROI across your end-to-end supply chain.
The World’s Best Ecommerce Retailers
Retail Week’s new report spotlighting the top 10 global ecommerce trailblazers.
How They’ll Spend It 2025
Exclusive research with 1,000 UK consumers on where they intend to spend in 2025
The Innovation Report 2024
Discover the top businesses for tech transformation.
Talking Shop 2024
500 frontline staff on what motivates them, challenges and opportunities.
Grocery Innovators
Innovation and transformation are essential parts of supermarket strategies
Retail 2025
Exclusive: 43 retail leaders from 39 businesses reveal their strategies for 2025
The Fastest Way to Lose Consumers
Honest opinions from 1,000 consumers on AI, marketing and data
The Christmas Forecast 2024
All roads lead to the golden quarter for UK retail. Having the right strategy is essential.
Retail 100 2024
Celebrating retail’s most influential leaders
AI Adopters
Meet the 10 AI Adopters and learn from their market-leading strategies.
Shopper Unlocked
Exclusive insight into the psyche of UK online shoppers in 2024.
Future Leaders 2024
Discover the 30 CEOs in waiting and let us know what you think of our predictions.
Supply Chain 2025
Retail Week’s annual blueprint for supply chain success.
The UK’s Top 30 Ecommerce Retailers
Winning strategies for sustainable growth.
The UK’s Top 30 Most Productive Retailers 2024
This report fully illuminates the methods driving retailer’s productivity strategies.
The Tech List 2024
Retail Week’s definitive index of the world’s top 50 digital leaders has published. Find out who you should be learning from and working with when it comes to tech transformation
How They’ll Spend It 2024
The real shopping priorities of UK consumers
Beyond the Hype
How AI in UK retail has moved to the mainstream
Retail 2024
The bosses of leading retailers have spoken in-depth to Retail Week for its annual flagship report.
Lessons in Loyalty
How can you cut through the noise in a world where consumers are hypersensitive to price, crave authenticity and have retailers queuing up to give it to them?
Retail 100 2023
Retail Week’s annual celebration of the sector’s top 100 individuals has landed. Back for its 18th year, the Retail 100 index recognises the inspiring leaders driving people, purpose and profits.
The Global Innovation Report
This report showcases the technology, data and new thinking being drawn upon by global retailers in 18 markets to drive innovation in all areas of business.
The Christmas Forecast 2023
Retail’s most lucrative time of the year, the golden quarter has the power to make or break businesses – so nailing your strategy is essential.
Retail Changemakers
Featuring exclusive sales forecasts, Retail Week analysts have identified fifteen global retailers and brands that are excelling in supply chain operations. Meet the Retail Changemakers
Talking Shop
530 UK store staff reveal what they really want from retailers
The UK’s Top 30 Most Productive Retailers
Asos, Victorian Plumbing and Zalando are top of the productivity leaderboard, Retail Week’s new report reveals.
Supply Chain 2024
What should your supply chain and IT strategy look like in the year ahead? We asked 50 leaders from inside the industry and the results were staggering.
Future Leaders
Retail Week journalists, analysts and headhunters have looked into their crystal balls to forecast just who are the industry’s CEOs in waiting. Discover the 30 talented people predicted to become retail CEOs
The UK’s Top 30 Ecommerce Retailers
In a Retail Week first, this report features an exclusive ranking of the UK’s 30 biggest ecommerce retailers by FY22 forecast online sales as compiled by our analyst team
Catalogues: Connecting with consumers. Converting sales
Online shopping might bring ease and convenience to shoppers, but they also crave time away from their screens, and tactile, sensory experiences. This is where direct mail, and specifically, catalogues come in.
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