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Data & Reports
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Latest Data Indexes
- IMRG Capgemini Sales Index January 2019 (reporting December 2018)
  
  23/01/2019
  
  IMRG Capgemini Sales Index Summary January 2019
- IMRG MetaPack Delivery Index - January 2019
  
  21/01/2019
  
  IMRG Metapack UK Delivery Index Summary January 2019, reporting December 2018.
- Quarterly Benchmarking Q3 2018
  
  20/12/2018
  
  IMRG E-Retail and M-Retail Quarterly Sales Index
IMRG Insight
Latest Insights
- How do traffic and sales growth for online retail align?
  
  07/12/2017
  
  A comparison of traffic data from Hitwise and online retail sales data from IMRG has revealed that, broadly speaking, growth patterns for online retail traffic and sales are fairly consistent.
- Sector by Sector Online Retail Growth Forecast - 2019
  
  22/01/2019
  
  For the first time, IMRG can reveal its 2019 online retail growth forecast by sector.
- Traffic patterns over Black Friday and Christmas period 2017
  
  07/02/2018
  
  This insight article uses data from Hitwise to illustrate trends and developments around the share of traffic to online retail sites this year over the Black Friday and Christmas trading period – and analyses what these trends tell us.
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Events
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Featured Events
- Delivery Summit
  
  9:00 AM on 22/05/2019 One America Square
  
  Back for it's second year the IMRG Delivery Summit is where the focus is on debating and progressing a series of key logistics themes, identified by IMRG’s Delivery Retail Advisory Board
- Fashion Connect Conference
  
  9:00 AM on 20/02/2019 1 America Square
  
  The first IMRG conference of 2019 looking at the challenges and opportunities faced by fashion retailers, the future of the high street, the growing pressure of cross-border sales and how customer data links it all together.
- IMRG Data Webinar: Online Retail Performance February 2019
  
  10:00 AM on 28/02/2019 Online
  
  February is a typically cold month in the UK (the close of which saw last year’s wintry Beast from the East), and this can impact shopper behaviour.
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- Discounting up by a third approaching Black Friday
  
  21/11/2018
  
  UK online retail sales growth hit the second lowest level (+8.5% YoY) ever recorded for October last month, as the subdued performance of online retail since the end of summer continues, according to the latest Capgemini IMRG e-Retail Sales Index.
- Lowest Ever Monthly Growth Caps Turbulent Year for Online Retail
  
  22/01/2019
  
  LONDON UK – January 22, 2019: UK online retail sales growth hit an all-time low of just +3.6% year-on-year (YoY) in December, as the industry experienced a tough Christmas trading period to end a challenging second half of the year, according to the Capgemini IMRG eRetail Sales Index.
- Lowest November growth in 7 years for online retail
  
  18/12/2018
  
  LONDON UK – 19 December, 2018: UK online retail sales suffered its worst November growth since 2011 last month coming in at just +8.1% year-on-year (YoY), as Black Friday discounting failed to rejuvenate consumer spending across the month and relieve the recent struggles for UK retailers, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.
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