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As a thank you for taking part,we’ve drawn the name of one retailer fromlast month’s respondents towin a superb Alan Paine gent’s pure-cotton Ilkley shirt. Congratulations thismonth to


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Gun Shops Down 76%Up 24% Down 47% 53%Up Down 45%Up 55%


Is footfall up or down on lastmonth?


Is your profit up or down on this time last year?


If you sell shooting equipment via your


website, are your internet sales up or down on lastmonth?


Down 69%Up 31%


Down 61%


39%Up


Down 77%Up 23%


Are your overall sales up or down on lastmonth?


As the game season draws closer to its end, business has slowed slightly but there seems little to worry about just yet.Three-quarters of gun shops are still buoyant (down slightly from 82 per cent last month) with 69 per cent seeing better footfall (83 per cent). Year-on-year profit is strong for just over half of all


retailers (53 per cent),which is down 11 per cent on last time.)


Country- clothing sales ingun shops?


If you sell shooting equipment bymail order, are yourmail-order sales up or down on last month?


Mail-order and online sales have slumped, however.


Just 39 per cent said mail-order sales were positive (92 per cent last month) and 45 per cent of internet traders reported similar results (compared with 75 per cent). It’s been positive news for mail-order and internet


businesses selling country clothing too. In all, 81 per cent and 84 per cent respectively revealed decent sales


If you sell country clothing bymail order, are your


country-clothing sales up or down on lastmonth?


19%down 81%up If you sell country


clothing via your website, are your country-clothing internet sales up or down on lastmonth?


17%down www.tandgmagazine.com 21 83%up Are you expecting next


month’s country-clothing sales to be up or down?


35%down 65%up


Are you expecting nextmonth's shooting-equipment sales to be up or down?


in the past month (compared with 56 per cent and 48 per cent before then). Looking ahead, 65 per cent of respondent in these


sectors were hopeful of even more orders next month (98 per cent). Things aren’t expected to slow down much; just


over three-quarters (77 per cent),were positive,which is down slightly from the 81 per cent last month.


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