Datamonitor's Apparel Retail in South Africa industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the apparel retail industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

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Market Definition

The apparel retail industry consists of the sale of all menswear, womenswear and infantswear. The menswear sector includes all garments made for men and boys. It includes both outer and under garments. The womenswear sector consists of the retail sale of all women's and girls' garments including dresses, suits and coats, jackets, tops, shirts, skirts, blouses, sweatshirts, sweaters, underwear etc. The infantswear sector is calculated as sales of garments for children between the ages of 0-2 years.

Industry value is calculated at retail selling price (RSP), and includes all taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used within this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

Asia-Pacific consists of China, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia.

The global industry refers to the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific.