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Data & Reports
Data & Reports
Latest Data Indexes
- IMRG Capgemini Sales Index October 2018 (reporting September 2018)
  
  18/10/2018
  
  IMRG Capgemini Sales Index Summary October 2018
- IMRG MetaPack Delivery Index - October 2018
  
  17/10/2018
  
  IMRG Metapack UK Delivery Index Summary October 2018, reporting September.
- Quarterly Benchmarking Q2 2018
  
  28/09/2018
  
  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 - 2018
  
  16/02/2018
  
  For the first time, IMRG can reveal its 2018 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
Events
Featured Events
- 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 GDPR Update and Workshop
  
  9:00 AM on 30/01/2019 Ashfords LLP Office
  
  Almost 9 months on, Ashfords will give an update on how things have gone since GDPR came into force...
- IMRG Membership Christmas Drinks
  
  3:30 PM on 06/12/2018 Covent Garden, London
  
  Our annual Christmas drinks held in central London. Our way of saying thanks to the membership.
Media
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- Online retail order volumes slow before ‘Golden Quarter’
  
  25/10/2018
  
  Online retail parcel delivery order volumes were up +6.4% year-on-year (YoY) in September, according to the latest data from the IMRG MetaPack UK Delivery Index. This is the lowest YoY rate in 2018 so far and, although order volumes typically decline month-on-month (MoM) around this time of year, the rate of decline has been a bit sharper for the past two months than last year; between July and August it was -7.5% (in 2017 it was -3.4%) and between August and September it was -15.1% (in 2017 it was -12%).
- September 2018: Online retail sales slump to lowest level this year
  
  17/10/2018
  
  UK online retail sales experienced its lowest September growth (+7.5% YoY) since 2014 last month, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.
- Welcome to Blackvember - IMRG Forecast for Black Friday 2018
  
  31/10/2018
  
  Today is 1 November and in retail that means only one thing – the Black Friday discounting event is imminent. Just exactly how imminent is a complicated question, which this article addresses and provides IMRG’s forecast for UK online retail sales over the period.
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