January – More signs of recovery?
During January we ran a short on-line poll of Shopping Centre executives in the UK & Ireland.
The results give some further indications of optimism for the sector. Asked to describe Christmas trading in 2009 vs. Christmas 2008, almost two-thirds described it as ‘better’ to some degree, with around 1-in-5 of all respondents concluding things were ‘a lot better’. By contrast only 3% saw it as ‘a lot worse’ with another further 15% describing it as ‘a little worse’.
In terms of an outlook for the first half of the year however almost half rated this as ‘neutral’. Similar proportions either saw the next six months as being ‘very good’ (2%) or ‘very poor’ (3%) and again the ‘quite good’/’quite poor’ segments were equally balanced.
If you have your own database and would like to conduct your own on-line poll survey, please contact Paul Latimer on 01273 670700.