United Kingdom (UK) Retail Occasions Market 2018-2023
Summary
The GlobalData Retail Occasions Market 2023 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series and offers a comprehensive overview of the market size for key occasions from 2017-2022. These key occasions are Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Easter, Father's Day, summer holidays, back to school, Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas. The report analyses the market growth and the market shares of the top five retailers for each key occasion overall, and for core categories.
The UK key occasions market rose between 2018 and 2023, driven by growth in the Easter and Christmas events. Halloween expenditure decreased in 2023 compared to 2018, making it the worst performing occasion during the period.
Scope
The total key occasions market rose between 2018 to 2023, with the largest increase coming from Christmas.
Halloween was the only occasion to experience a decline between 2018 and 2023, having experienced the same fate between 2017 and 2022.
The UK Christmas market accounted for almost half of the total key occasions market in 2023.
Reasons to Buy
Use our in-depth market insight to gain knowledge of the market sizes of key retail occasions from 2018 to 2023, including Christmas, Mother's Day and Black Friday.
Understand which retailers perform well in different categories, such as food & drink and gifts, within the key occasions using our detailed market shares.
- Overall
- Market sizes & growth
- Total key occasions retail spend
- Total key occasions retail growth
- Key occasions share of total retail & total retail growth compared to key occasions
- Christmas
- Total Christmas retail spend
- Total Christmas retail growth
- Overall Christmas market shares: top 5
- Total Christmas gifting retail spend
- Total Christmas gifting retail growth
- Christmas gifting market shares: top 5
- Total Christmas food & drink retail spend
- Total Christmas food & drink retail growth
- Christmas food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Christmas festive items retail spend
- Total Christmas festive items retail growth
- Christmas festive items market shares: top 5
- Valentine's Day
- Total Valentine's Day retail spend
- Total Valentine's Day retail growth
- Overall Valentine's Day market shares: top 5
- Total Valentine's Day gifting retail spend
- Total Valentine's Day gifting retail growth
- Valentine's Day gifting market shares: top 5
- Total Valentine's Day food & drink retail spend
- Total Valentine's Day food & drink retail growth
- Valentine's Day food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Valentine's Day non-food retail spend
- Total Valentine's Day non-food retail growth
- Valentine's Day non-food retail market shares: top 5
- Mother's Day
- Total Mother's Day retail spend
- Total Mother's Day retail growth
- Overall Mother's Day market shares: top 5
- Total Mother's Day gifting retail spend
- Total Mother's Day gifting retail growth
- Mother's Day gifting market shares: top 5
- Total Mother's Day food & drink retail spend
- Total Mother's Day food & drink retail growth
- Mother's Day food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Mother's Day non-food items retail spend
- Total Mother's Day non-food items retail growth
- Mother's Day non-food items market shares: top 5
- Easter
- Total Easter retail spend
- Total Easter retail growth
- Overall Easter retail market shares: top 5
- Total Easter gifting retail spend
- Total Easter gifting retail growth
- Easter gifting market shares: top 5
- Total Easter food & drink retail spend
- Total Easter food & drink retail growth
- Easter food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Easter non-food items retail spend
- Total Easter non-food items retail growth
- Easter non-food items market shares: top 5
- Father's Day
- Total Father's Day retail spend
- Total Father's Day retail growth
- Overall Father's Day market shares: top 5
- Total Father's Day gifting retail spend
- Total Father's Day gifting retail growth
- Father's Day gifting market shares: top 5
- Total Father's Day food & drink retail spend
- Total Father's Day food & drink retail growth
- Father's Day food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Father's Day non-food items retail spend
- Total Father's Day non-food items retail growth
- Father's Day non-food items market shares: top 5
- Summer
- Total Summer retail spend
- Total Summer retail growth
- Overall Summer holidays market shares: top 5
- Total Summer holidays retail spend
- Total Summer holidays retail growth
- Buying for Summer holidays market shares: top 5
- Total Summer food & drink retail spend
- Total Summer food & drink retail growth
- Summer food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total general Summer retail spend
- Total general Summer retail growth
- General Summer market shares: top 5
- Back to School
- Total back to school retail spend
- Total back to school retail growth
- Overall back to school retail market shares: top 5
- Total back to school uniform retail spend
- Total back to school uniform retail growth
- Back to school uniform market shares: top 5
- Total back to school sports retail spend
- Total back to school sports retail growth
- Back to school sports market shares: top 5
- Total back to school stationery retail spend
- Total back to school stationery retail growth
- Back to school stationery market shares: top 5
- Total back to school accessories retail spend
- Total back to school accessories retail growth
- Back to school accessories market shares: top 5
- Total back to school books retail spend
- Total back to school books retail growth
- Back to school books market shares: top 5
- Halloween
- Total Halloween retail spend
- Total Halloween retail growth
- Overall Halloween retail market shares: top 5
- Total Halloween decorations retail spend
- Total Halloween decorations retail growth
- Halloween decorations market shares: top 5
- Total Halloween costumes retail spend
- Total Halloween costumes retail growth
- Halloween costumes market shares: top 5
- Total Halloween food retail spend
- Total Halloween food retail growth
- Halloween food retail market shares: top 5
- Total Halloween entertainment & stationery retail spend
- Total Halloween entertainment & stationery retail growth
- Halloween entertainment & stationery market shares: top 5
- Black Friday
- Total Black Friday retail spend
- Total Black Friday retail growth
- Overall Black Friday retail market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday electricals & technology retail spend
- Total Black Friday electricals & technology retail growth
- Black Friday electricals & technology market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday clothing & footwear retail spend
- Total Black Friday clothing & footwear retail growth
- Black Friday clothing & footwear market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday health & beauty retail spend
- Total Black Friday health & beauty retail growth
- Black Friday health & beauty market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday entertainment & leisure retail spend
- Total Black Friday entertainment & leisure retail growth
- Black Friday entertainment & leisure market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday home retail spend
- Total Black Friday home retail growth
- Black Friday home retail market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday food & drink retail spend
- Total Black Friday food & drink retail growth
- Black Friday food & drink market shares: top 5
- Total Black Friday miscellaneous retail spend
- Total Black Friday miscellaneous retail growth
- Black Friday miscellaneous market shares: top 5
- Methodology
- Technical details: Consumer survey work
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