May 21, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Understanding Fresh Food E-Commerce in ChinaThe gross merchandise volume (GMV) of China’s fresh food e-commerce market is expected to increase 160% to ¥162.0 billion in 2019 from ¥62.2 billion in 2016, according to iiMedia.
May 20, 2019 Deep Dive Premium The $13 Billion US Women’s Underwear Industry: Disruption Creates OpportunityThe $13.1 billion US women’s underwear market is changing. Traditional market leaders are losing market share to athletic retailers or digitally native, smaller brands. Body positivity and inclusivity are central to an evolving definition of “sexy”. Technology is enabling brands to improve fit and bring new designs to market.
May 16, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Luxury Differentiation via (Social) Values, Sustainability and Limited-Run CollaborationsLuxury brands are employing social values, sustainability and limited-run collaborations to enhance their brand positioning and attract new luxury consumers.
May 15, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Coresight Matrix: Computer Vision Solutions for Product SearchCoresight Matrix is a new product series designed to help our subscribers better understand a number of segments and key players within the retail-technology industry. The first of the series focus on computer vision, which has seen rapid adoption in retail over the last few years.
May 14, 2019 Deep Dive Premium US Online Grocery Survey 2019Our second annual survey of grocery shopping habits found that while more than one-third of US consumers now buy groceries online, 72% of those shoppers direct only a small amount of their total grocery spend online.
April 30, 2019 Deep Dive Premium US Drugstores are Turning into Purveyors of Beauty and WellnessIn this report, we explore what two major US drugstore retailers, CVS Health (CVS) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (Walgreens), have done and examine the opportunities for them in the beauty and wellness space.
April 24, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Male Makeup: Going Mainstream in Asia and Slowly Gaining Traction in the USMale makeup is an emerging category. Male consumers globally are challenging the definitions of masculinity and femininity as men are increasingly wearing men’s makeup products.
April 22, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Success in China E-Commerce: Your Tmall 101Alibaba’s Tmall accounted for 60% of gross merchandise volume (GMV) in the online retail business-to-consumer (B2C) market in China in the third quarter of 2018, according to China Internet Watch and Analysis.
April 18, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Aldi and Lidl’s Impact in the UK: Reviewing Five Fightback Strategies Among Nondiscount Grocery RetailersAldi and Lidl have brought major disruption to the UK grocery market — and they could be on course to add another £9 billion of combined sales over the next five years. In this report, we review five measures major UK grocery retailers have taken to fight Aldi and Lidl, and how successful each has been.
April 15, 2019 Deep Dive Premium US Millennials and Grocery: An Aging Millennial Demographic is Creating an Older/Younger DivideYounger millennials shop at mass merchandisers, spend on wellness and fitness, and try to buy consciously. Millennials aged 30+ are more likely than their younger peers to look for savings, shop at traditional supermarkets and buy groceries online.
April 11, 2019 Deep Dive Premium The Greater Bay Area, or “China’s Silicon Valley”: What is It, How Will It Develop and How Can Businesses Benefit?The Greater Bay Area could be China’s answer to Silicon Valley. On February 18, 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council of the People’s Republic of China released a development plan for the Greater Bay Area.
April 10, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Online to Offline Beauty: Brands That Are Winning by Understanding the Digital Consumer and Then Going PhysicalDigitally native beauty brands are opening stores and differentiating through customer experiences. Opening a physical store increases online traffic by 45%, according to the ICSC.
April 2, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Reviewing America’s Retail Bankruptcies: What Can We Learn from the Slew of Recent Retail Failures?This report discusses notable US retail bankruptcies in 2017-2018 and examines key factors that led retailers to collapse.
April 1, 2019 Deep Dive Premium US Retailers Becoming More Relevant Through Acquisitions: Mass Merchandisers vs. AmazonM&A activity has risen in the US retail sector over the past 10 years, in terms of deal value and number of deals, and the same trend applies within the mass-merchandiser sector.
March 22, 2019 Deep Dive Premium Strong Demand for Value, E-Commerce and Sportswear Sustains Pressure on Europe’s Middleground Apparel RetailersAcross major European economies, floundering midmarket behemoths are finding business more challenging than ever, leaving a number of apparel retailing stalwarts suffering what seems to be “death by a thousand cuts.”
