Food retailing

Department stores, GMS, Supermarkets selling foods, online supermarkets, food home delivery service providers, CVS, discount stores, mass merchandisers, Co-op, others

I   Environment surrounding Food Retailing

1. Changes in Food Retail Market

1. Transition of food retail market size and form of business
2. Key points of attempts by food retailers
3. Noteworthy keywords of food retailing
4. Future of food retailing
5. Characteristics of food retailing by business form and 2015 forecast
6. Sales ranking
7. Trends of key players by business form

• GMS (general merchandise stores)
• Supermarkets selling foods
• Online supermarkets, food home deliveries
• Convenience stores
• Discount stores
• Co-op
• Others

2. Sales Channel

1. Trends in cooperative buying/cooperative business groups
2. Trends of 2 big groups
3. Status of alignment of GMS and food SM

3. Operational Challenges and IT Utilization in Distribution Industry

1. Questionnaire on business challenges and IT utilization in the distribution industry
2. Research summary
3. Characteristics by business form
4. Results by questionnaire item

4. Transition of Core Tenants at Commercial Facilities and Sales
5. Environment surrounding Consumption

1. Increase and decrease of consumption spending
2. Increase and decrease of consumption spending by item and component ratio
3. Family budgets at workers' households among All the households
4. Characteristics of balance of household expenses by age group of the head of the household
5. Trends of food-related consumption in 2014
6. Demographics
7. Characteristics of consumption activites (results of online consumer survey)
8. Relationship betweeen rising tendency of buying ready-to-eat meals/eating at-home and food purchase

• (From the consumer survey 2013 by New Supermarket Association of Japan (NSAJ))

II   Trends by Business Form

1. Department Stores

1. Sales trends
2. Trends of key players of department stores (5 enterprises)

2. Mass Retailers

1. Sales trends
2. Trends of key players of mass retailers (5 enterprises)

3. Convenience Stores

1. Sales trends
2. Trends of key players of CVS (4 enterprises)

4. Food Supermarket and Other Food & Beverage Retailers

1. Sales trends

5. Trends of Related Market (Food Home Delivery Market)

1. Transition of food home delivery market size
2. Trends by business category
3. Factors of market expansion and inhibition
4. Outlook and challenges
5. Noteworthy trends in food home delivery market

III   Analysis of Food Supermarkets

1. Current Status and Future Outlook
2. Profitability Analysis
3. Current Status of Supermarkets
4. Trends by Region

IV   Company Profiles

1. 35 chain stores
2. Other food retailing businesses (detailed version)
3. Other food retailing businesses (simple version)