The TLE Retail Trends concept
The growth of hard discounting and private label, and it's impact on other retailer's, has led to a surprising, and often unidentified downward pressure on growth and margins, but differing widely with the stage of national economic development. Analysing your business by distribution channel or retail customer as well as by product and geography can show you what those pressures are. TLE's retail trend models will help you understand your company in the third dimension - customer as well as product and geography
- is intended as a catalyst to help in the development of cross functional strategies,
- is based on global patterns of retail development, with differences by category,
- identifies the impact of Channel and Own Brand development on market weighted growth by region,
- quantifies opportunities by category, channel and country, since the impact varies by region,
- identifies opportunities by each cell in a three dimensional matrix,
- an analysis extension to consumer cluster is being discussed.