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In this report, we review the global market for male grooming products. We also look at consumer survey data to analyze US shoppers’ habits and shopping preferences.
US consumer confidence appears to have peaked and spending preferences are still directed at home improvement, but the growth rate of spending on home improvement is expected to slow.
Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. This report focuses on the convenience store sector.
This report covers European retailing, with a focus on the UK, Germany and France. Structural trends challenging middleground legacy retailers include an ongoing attrition of market share to online and discount channels.
Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. In US drugstore retailing. Collaborations and alliances formed last year will manifest synergies in the form of innovation in offerings.
Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. In this report, we review the global consumer packaged goods (CPG) market.
Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. This report focuses on e-commerce.
The convenience store sector is changing to adapt to consumers who live in an increasingly digitalized world who expect both quality and convenience. E-commerce, hypermarket and supermarket operators are muscling into the space, opening their own smaller retail formats. We expect consolidation as M&A activity continues.
As store closures resume in earnest in 2019, dollar stores are bucking the trend, expanding rapidly. Look for technology to be a deciding factor in the coming years as brick and mortar companies integrate online and offline offerings.
New digital marketplaces have made the apparel and footwear market truly global, giving consumers access to brands and products once available only by traveling. Brands are bringing products to neighborhoods that previously had very little access to the latest fashion trends.
U.S. department store sales will shrink 5.8% per year to 2023. In response department stores are expanding off-price, pairing with unique partners and seeking to right-size.
Rapidly changing consumer attitudes, sophistication and expectations have shaken the status quo in luxury, pushing purveyors into the tech-savvy 21st century. Those that don't keep pace with the new luxury consumers will be left behind.
The $464 billion global beauty industry is seeing independent brands, diversification of traditional retailers, growth in men and children and new channels such as popups, medical retailers and pharmacies. Consumers are looking for “clean beauty” and dermocosmetics.
For US retail REITs, occupancy rates are improving, vacancies are decreasing and rent asking rates are increasing, but store traffic and other metrics remain negative. REITs are welcoming non-traditional occupants, particularly food. Just 20% of “A” malls generate 72% of all mall sales in the US.
Annual growth in national spending on home improvement and repair is expected to decelerate in 2019, due to rising mortgage interest rates and flat home sales activity, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Despite this deceleration, other indicators such as home prices, permit activity, and retail sales of building materials are expected to continue to strengthen and drive continued increases in spending in 2019.
