Morrisons UK: Consumer Profile - new company profile report
London 7/26/2012 11:39 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
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Why was the report written?
While shopper and store audit data provide the picture of what's happening in store, this report focuses on providing data on the final consumers of products from Morrisons. Therefore, this report provides a different view from both loyalty card and shopper data in order to help complete a total understanding of the consumer base and improve decision making.
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
Understanding the consumer audience is key and increasingly this means not just understanding the shoppers in store, but also who they are purchasing for. This broader view of who their customers are allows retailers to make more informed strategic decisions.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
The effects of the global recession and the following recovery have led consumers to closely examine their choice of retailer and products purchased. While the effects have varied country by country, no retailer has been left totally untouched and this has created a need for retailers to understand who their end-consumer audience is.
What makes this report unique and essential to read?
The report provides valuable, hard to obtain, consumer-survey based, data on Morrisons in the UK, showing who its end-customers are and how well the retailer is performing overall (as measured by category share). By focusing on end-consumers and not in-store shoppers, the report provides a different perspective compared to other types of data, helping retailers to identify which consumer groups they want to compete for in the future.
Key Features and Benefits
The report profiles Morrisons' end-consumers and covers over 25 consumer groups of both Main and Occasional users (determined by the share of their goods coming from this retailer).
Market shares by category show how Morrisons is performing in product categories across the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
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Fishing for a fortune: Chinese porcelain fish bowls found in Essex barn are set to sell for thousands - Daily Mail
By Anna Edwards
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It is a find that would have bargain hunters swooning with envy.
After being smothered in dust and forgotten in an old barn, this pair of beautiful bowls were discovered by an eagle-eyed expert looking around a house.
The giant Chinese porcelain fish bowls had been ignored for so long that they were discovered languishing in dust and containing a mummified mouse.
The matching yellow pair were made in the 19th or early 20th century for the last dowager empress of China, Cixi, to keep her goldfish in.
What a find! This giant pair of Chinese porcelain fish bowls, that were made in the 19th or early 20th century for the last dowager empress of China, Cixi, are now to be sold at auction
They are now to be sold at auction and have been given a conservative estimate of 10,000, but are likely to sell for much more.
They come with their original, decorative hardwood stands and were spotted by an expert doing a routine valuation at a house near Colchester, Essex.
The bowls are decorated with peony blossoms and would have be used to keep fish in, possibly at an imperial palace.
They measure 18 by 21 inches and are stamped with the iron-red Dayazhai character mark enclosed within an oval medallion with a dragon border.
James Grinter, from Reeman Dansie’s auction house in Colchester, was the expert who spotted the bowls.
He said: 'I was on a routine valuation and these bowls were in a barn and had clearly been there for many years and were covered in dust.
'In one on them was a dead mouse and it had been there for so long that it had mummified.
'It had obviously fallen in and couldn’t get out again. The bowls were originally used to keep goldfish in.
'They have the mark of the last dowager empress of China, but we can’t say if they were used by her or came from an imperial palace - we’ll let the market decide that.
'They are large bowls and one of them has been restored a long time ago, which is one of the reasons why the estimate is quite low.
'But they come with their Chinese hardwood stands and are striking pieces.'
Other staggering auctions include Edvard Munch's The Scream painting
Other eye-watering auctions include Edvard Munch's The Scream, which set a new record for art auction sales at Sotheby's in New York in May when it was sold for $119.9million (74million)
The 35.56-carat Wittelsbach blue diamond, which dates back to the 17th century, when King Philip IV of Spain selected the jewel to be part of his daughter's dowry, was sold it in 2008 for $23.4 million (16.3million).
Sotheby's said it's record for the most expensive standard-sized bottle at auction was a Chateau Lafite 1869, which went for 151,000 in October 2010.
The porcelain pair are going under the hammer on July 31.
Empress Dowager Cixi, of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a powerful and charismatic woman.
She unofficially but effectively controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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