Market Outlook | May 8, 2019 Premium Enterprise Wearables: A Dynamic MarketIn this report, we review the market for enterprise wearables: Devices used in business environments for work. We estimate global shipments for enterprise wearables were approximately 10.4 million units in 2018, and expect this total to reach more than 23 million units by 2022. Read More
Market Outlook | April 17, 2019 Premium Europe’s Legacy Retailers Squeezed by Muted Consumer Demand and Structural Shifts: Sector Overview — European RetailThis 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. Read More
Market Outlook | March 29, 2019 Premium The Opportunity in Women’s Plus-Size Apparel in China: A Potential $10 Billion MarketDespite a low obesity rate, the scale of China’s population means plus-size apparel represents a substantial market with significant potential for brands and retailers. Read More
Market Outlook | March 8, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Consolidation, Collaboration and Innovation Coming to US DrugstoresEach 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. Read More
Market Outlook | March 5, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Consumer Packaged Goods — Demand Is Strong, but Companies Must Be Agile to Meet Consumers’ NeedsEach 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. Read More
Market Outlook | March 1, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: E-Commerce — Online-Offline Integration in a Winner-Takes-All SectorEach of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. This report focuses on e-commerce. Read More
Market Outlook | February 22, 2019 Premium The US Adaptive Clothing and Footwear Market Represents a $47.3 Billion Largely Untapped OpportunityCoresight Research estimates the potential global adaptive apparel market will reach $288.7 billion in 2019 and grow to $349.9 billion in 2023. More brands and retailers are launching adaptive collections but the adaptive clothing and footwear market remains underserved. Read More
Market Outlook | February 21, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Convenience Stores — As Consumers Seek Ever More Convenience, Digitalization PrevailsThe 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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 21, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Mass Merchants — Dollar Stores Expand, Mass Merchandisers Digitalize and Costco Widens Its Lead Among Warehouse ClubsAs 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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 20, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Apparel & Footwear — Consumer Connectivity Changing Sector LandscapeNew 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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 18, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: US Department Stores — Off-Price Formats and Marketplaces are Winning (and Millennials are Shopping Department Stores)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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 15, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Luxury — New Customers and New Business Models Equals a New LuxuryRapidly 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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 14, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Beauty Brands and Retailers — Global Companies are Innovating with Independent Brands to Expand PortfoliosThe $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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 12, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: Retail REITs — An Industry in FluxFor 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. Read More
Market Outlook | February 8, 2019 Premium Sector Overview: US Home and Home Improvement Retailers — Mixed Signals in a Time of BountyAnnual 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. Read More