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You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard July 2010 Commentary
In overall terms the results recorded by the Index in July are favourable, and for the first time there are strong indications that the trading position of our high streets is achieving a degree of stability that has long been absent.
Posted: 24/08/10 | Filesize: 479 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard May Commentary
The UK’s high streets did not fare as well in May as they did in April, with a decrease in footfall of 5.6% between April and May, and an annual decline in footfall of 3.2% (in contrast with an annual increase of 0.8% in April). However, the significance of the monthly decline is mitigated by the fact that footfall increased significantly in April due to Easter (by 9.5% from March) and so a decline from April to May is not unexpected, and reflects the pattern of footfall that occurred in May 2009 (-2.7% from April to May in 2009).
Posted: 11/06/10 | Filesize: 481 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard February Commentary
Despite the continuing threat of a double dip recession, the UK’s high streets fared slightly better in February this year than they did in February 2009, with an annual decline of 5.5% compared with a decline of 7.8% in February 2009.
Posted: 15/03/10 | Filesize: 587 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM Springboard High Street Index - November 2009
It seems that Christmas trading did not start during November in the High Street with a decline in footfall of 6.8% over the month from October - a stark contrast with the positive month on month trend for November that has been recorded in each year since 2006.
Posted: 06/01/10 | Filesize: 16 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index - October 2009
Despite the school half term holiday, footfall in the UK’s high streets increased only marginally in October from the previous month - by 1.5%, from September - and decreased annually in October by 6.3%. This year on year decline is the most significant annual reduction in high street activity since July, and is a disappointment in the wake of the positive retail sales results reported by the BRC for October of 3.8%.
Posted: 13/11/09 | Filesize: 16 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM Springboard High Street Index September 2009
It appears that the high street has settled into what is a new reality of a long term annual downward trend in footfall of around 5%. In September, the annual change in footfall in the UK’s high streets was -5.5%, following an annual decline 4.4% in August, with a year on year decline of 4.9% for the year to date to the end of September.
Posted: 14/10/09 | Filesize: 33 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index - August 2009
It seems predictions made by the media that consumers would stay at home this summer have rung true, and have been reflected in better than anticipated footfall levels in town centres during August. For the country as a whole, footfall in our high streets fell by 4.4% compared with August 2008, a much smaller annual decline than in both July this year (-7.3%) and in August 2008 (-8.5%).
Posted: 22/09/09 | Filesize: 98 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index - July 2009
Footfall in the UK’s high streets continued to remain depressed in July, with an annual decrease of 7.3% from July 2008, following on from an annual decrease in footfall of a similar magnitude in June (7.7%).
Posted: 18/08/09 | Filesize: 234 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index - June 2009
It appears that the bright spot during March and April when footfall in our high streets remained at last year’s levels, was just that – a spot of brightness in an otherwise fairly dark trading landscape. Following an annual decrease of 4.3% in May, footfall in our high streets has continued to decline into June, with a year on year decrease of 7.7% from June 2008.
Posted: 22/07/09 | Filesize: 23 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index May 2009
Footfall in our high streets declined by 2.7% between April and May, and by 4.3% annually between May 2008 and May 2009.
Posted: 17/06/09 | Filesize: 27 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index April 2009
For the first time since August 2007 footfall in the UK’s high streets increased annually in April by 0.7%. Comparison with last April is complicated by Easter being a month earlier last year, however, April’s results reinforce the Index results for March with further evidence that shoppers are indeed returning to the high street. However, in contrast to last month, when the issue was whether footfall was being converted into spend, April’s results from the BRC indicate that this is now starting to happen. The BRC reported a like for like increase in sales of 4.6% in April with clothing, footwear and outdoor leisure showing the best growth of the non-food sector, all of which are categories of goods that dominate our high streets.
Posted: 14/05/09 | Filesize: 21 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index March 2009
With an annual decline in footfall of just -0.2% in the UK’s high streets during March - the smallest degree of annual decline in footfall reported in any month since May 2008 – the question of whether things have bottomed out must be asked, or at the very least whether consumers have become accustomed to the new reality and are now returning to the high street.
Posted: 14/05/09 | Filesize: 22 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index February 2009
During periods of difficult economic trading conditions, the need for relevant indicators of performance becomes ever more apparent. And the issue of relevance is absolutely key: for a performance indicator to offer any assistance it must be reflective of trading conditions.
Posted: 14/05/09 | Filesize: 21 Kb

You must be logged as a member to access this document ATCM-Springboard UK High Street Index January 2009
It seems that the resilience of the high street, witnessed at the end of 2008, to what is now officially a recession has all but disappeared. Reinforcing the results issued by the British Retail Consortium of a 1.6% annual fall in nonfood retail sales in January, the National High Street Index recorded an annual decline in footfall of 8% in our town centres - the largest annual decrease for January since the Index began in 2005, and the twice the level of decline in footfall recorded in January 2008.
Posted: 14/05/09 | Filesize: 21 Kb