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Retail August 2008

First	DFS	Gained	48
Last	Staples	Fallen	46
Up 42	J D Sports	Same	3
Down 42	Harrods	New	0

J D Sports (+42)

Play.com (+30)

Borders (+26)

Harvey Nichols (+26)

Freemans (+26)

John Lewis Stores (-21)

Toys R Us (-23)

Homebase (-29)

Woolworths (-37)

Harrods (-42)

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Organisation	Avg. Slowest	Slowest
Only available for Qtr 4 2010 onwards

Organisation (Click to list alphabetically)	A	AA
Co-Op	100.00	100.00
Direct Specs	100.00	100.00
Endless.com	100.00	100.00
Figleaves	100.00	100.00
Furniture Village	100.00	100.00
Goldsmiths	100.00	100.00
HMV	100.00	100.00
Laura Ashley	100.00	100.00
Rosebys	100.00	100.00
W H Smith	100.00	100.00
Thorntons	99.22	100.00
Amazon UK	99.21	100.00
Vodafone	99.21	100.00
asos.com	99.21	100.00
Play.com	99.20	100.00
Staples	98.44	100.00
SCS	98.41	100.00
N Brown Group plc	98.04	100.00
Wickes	96.88	100.00
Dixons	96.83	100.00
John Lewis Stores	96.03	100.00
P C World	94.44	100.00
E Bay	93.70	100.00
Anne Summers	92.80	100.00
Virgin Retail	89.06	100.00
Orange	88.80	99.20
Packard Bell UK	87.74	100.00
Currys	85.83	100.00
Republic	85.60	100.00
Net a Porter	85.27	100.00
Freemans	84.00	98.40
House of Fraser	83.33	100.00
Early Learning Centre	83.20	100.00
Halfords	80.00	100.00
Bargain Booze	78.40	100.00
Phones 4u	73.81	100.00
Carphone Warehouse	67.20	100.00
Mothercare	65.35	100.00
Asda	65.22	100.00
Ikea	63.20	99.20
Disney	61.90	99.21
Game	58.27	100.00
Dell EMEA	57.60	100.00
Focus	57.03	100.00
Ebuyer	53.97	100.00
JJB Sports	48.44	100.00
Littlewoods	47.62	100.00
Harrods	44.53	100.00
Maplin Electronics	39.20	100.00
Waitrose	38.10	100.00
Land of Leather	37.74	100.00
Waterstones	37.21	100.00
Thresher	34.48	100.00
B&Q	27.91	100.00
Majestic Wine	27.13	99.22
Firebox	26.40	100.00
Superdrug	25.58	100.00
Next	20.63	97.62
QVCUK.com	18.25	100.00
Habitat	17.46	90.48
Debenhams	16.80	100.00
Comet UK	16.67	100.00
Blacks	15.62	100.00
J D Sports	13.60	100.00
Jones	12.80	100.00
Borders	12.60	69.29
Ted Baker	12.00	100.00
O2	11.90	96.83
Fenwick	11.54	100.00
Marks & Spencer	10.32	100.00
Toys R Us	10.24	100.00
Woolworths	9.45	100.00
La Senza	6.35	100.00
Harvey Nichols	5.60	100.00
Matalan	4.80	100.00
Specsavers	4.00	100.00
Morrisons	3.15	100.00
Sainsbury	3.15	100.00
Hamleys	2.38	100.00
Vision Express	2.38	99.21
Argos	1.60	100.00
Top Shop	1.60	100.00
Oddbins	1.59	100.00
Robert Dyas	1.57	100.00
T-Mobile	1.56	100.00
BHS	1.55	100.00
D & A (glasses)	0.79	100.00
Lakeland	0.79	100.00
Holland & Barrett	0.78	100.00
Homebase	0.78	100.00
Apple iTunes	0.00	100.00
DFS	0.00	100.00
H Samuel	0.00	100.00
Jessops	0.00	100.00
Tesco Direct	0.00	99.21
Clinton Cards	0.00	96.00
Adams	0.00	74.42