Scottish Retail Consortium

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) - KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor for October 2019 has revealed total sales in Scotland increased by 1.0% compared with October 2018, when they had decreased by 0.2%.

Scottish retailers are likely to face a £12 million increase in their business rates bill, new analysis from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has revealed The Office of National Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI) figure revealed inflation in September stood at 1.7%. The September figure

The sale of non-essential goods dropped in Scotland last month, new research conducted by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG reveals.

Mr David Lonsdale, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium Agenda, urges MSPs to support business rate reform to mitigate the decline of the Scottish high street. On every Scottish high street, there is visible evidence of how retail is changing. Successful shops are embracing technology and well

Ahead of this week's Scottish Budget, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has called for business taxes to be reduced to boost the retail industry. Retail is Scotland’s largest private-sector employer, providing a quarter of a million jobs. However, it is an industry in transition and recent

David Lonsdale The Scottish Retail Consortium has blamed a decline in the number of retail jobs and stores in Scotland on a "toxic cocktail of burgeoning tax and regulatory costs and transformational change in the retail industry".

David Lonsdale The Scottish Retail Consortium is seeking the prioritisation of measures to support consumer spending and lift private sector investment in the Scottish Government’s autumn Budget.

Scotland's digital retail parks and traditional High Streets suffered a slump in footfall last month with experts blaming poor weather, declining consumer purchasing power and uncertainty over Brexit as negative factors. Worryingly, the slump extended to digital sales. Diane Wehrle, Marketing and In

Scottish stores saw a year-on-year decrease in footfall of 2.4 per cent in June, according to the BRC/Springboard Retail Footfall Monitor. The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said June, which saw the worst performance since January 2015 and significantly below the three-month average of -1.1 per ce