Drive smarter investments with unmatched retail data and insights

BRC Insights provides financial professionals with exclusive access to comprehensive UK retail data, enabling you to identify trends, evaluate risks, and make data-backed decisions.

Why Financial Professionals Choose BRC Insights

  • Trusted by Industry Leaders.
  • Data sourced directly from the UK’s top retailers ensures reliability and accuracy.
  • Unparalleled Market Coverage and market data ahead of official statistics.
  • Data and insights into retail sales performance, pricing, consumer behaviour, footfall, property, and macroeconomic analyses, invaluable for investment analysis.
  • Granular data helps identify high-potential sectors and predict market shifts.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR INVESTORS?

As a subscriber, you gain access to:

1

RETAIL SALES MONITOR (RSM)

A leading indicator of UK retail sales, published two weeks ahead of official reports. Includes detailed breakdowns by sector and channel, helping you forecast trends before competitors.

2

SHOP PRICE INDEX (SPI)

Insight into pricing strategies and inflation trends across 500+ common items, vital for understanding cost pressures and consumer spending power.

3

CONSUMER SENTIMENT MONITOR

An analysis of consumer sentiment based on monthly survey of 2,000 consumers about their financial status, shopping behaviours and more.

4

ECONOMIC MONITOR

Monthly reports on macroeconomic indicators, offering a comprehensive view of the economic climate affecting retail.

5

FOOTFALL AND PROPERTY MONITORS

Measure consumer activity and retail space utilisation to evaluate market health and property investments. 

The competitive edge for financial decision makers

  • Informed Investing 
    Anticipate market opportunities and risks with access to proprietary, timely retail data.
  • Benchmark Performance
    Compare sector-wide trends against your investment portfolio to identify outperformers.
  • Deep-Dive Analysis
    Historical reports and trend data to inform long-term investment strategies.

How financial institutions use BRC insights

  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
    Spot emerging retail trends and high-growth investment opportunities.
  • Real Estate Investors
    Use footfall and retail property data to optimise commercial property decisions.
  • Market Analysts
  • Identify consumer demand patterns and economic drivers to refine market forecasts.
  • BRC Insights are an important contribution to the ongoing understanding of the British retail scene; well contextualised and presented including proprietary data that is highly valuable to our ongoing characterisation and projections for the UK consumer economy.

    Clive BlackVice Chairman | Shore Capital
  • The BRC insight gives valuable context to consumer trends providing the ‘why’ to many of the questions that arise from the collective data outputs. The ability to benchmark our data with the wider industry is essential in evaluating our performance and attaining context to the data acquired.

    Mark BruceRetail Director | Meadowhall Shopping Centre (British Land)
  • BRC Insights remains one of our most important partners in understanding and contextualising the British Retail industry’s performance. Their data is front and centre of helping us to better understand the UK consumer and helping us to improve our Customer Centricity.

    Glynn EdwardsTrading Director | Landsec

Take the lead in retail investment

Subscribe today to gain unparalleled access to UK retail data and insights. Get 20% off when you use PRENAX20.

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