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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) End of Year Gifts for Teachers: Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection, 2026
The End of Year Gifts for Teachers 2026 report forms part of GlobalData's Retail Occasions series and offers a comprehensive insight into the consumer dynamics and spending habits of British consumers for end of year gifts for teachers. The report analyses the market, the major players, the main trends, and consumer attitudes. The proportion of consumers buying end of year gifts for teachers has increased in 2026, driven by a decrease in gifting.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Summer Retail Market: Analyzing Trends, Consumer Attitudes, Occasions and Key Players, 2026
The UK Summer 2026 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive overview of the major retail occasion of summer. The report analyses the market, the major players, the main trends and consumer attitudes. The proportion of consumers shopping for summer rose in 2026, recovering much of the ground lost in 2025. Retail and leisure penetration increased, driven by unusually hot weather this summer with many of those who spent more this summer citing hotter weather...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Black Friday Intentions: Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection, 2026
The GlobalData Black Friday Intentions 2026 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive overview consumer intentions for Black Friday 2026, analysing the market, the major players, the main trends and consumer attitudes. The proportion of UK consumers who stated that they intend to buy something during the Black Friday promotional event remained unchanged in 2026, which suggests that interest in Black Friday will be consistent with 2025.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Halloween Intentions: Analysing Spending Intentions and Consumer Attitudes, 2026
The GlobalData Halloween Intentions 2026 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive overview consumer intentions for Halloween 2026, analysing the market, the major players, the main trends and consumer attitudes. The proportion of UK consumers who intend to or have already purchased items for Halloween 2026 has fallen versus 2025. Though participation levels are still high among crucial mid-life age groups, these consumers report the steepest decline in participation intention.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Health and Beauty Market Analysis by Categories, Revenue, Consumer Trends, Key Players and Forecast to 2030
The UK Health & Beauty report offers a comprehensive insight into the Health & Beauty market in the UK, analysing the sector, the major players, the main trends, and consumer attitudes, as well as providing market forecasts out to 2030. The UK health & beauty market grew over 4% in 2025, driven by its essential nature and higher market inflation. The market is set to grow at a CAGR of 3.0% between 2025 and 2030. Volumes are forecast to remain...
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Consumer Insights
South Korea Retail Market, Consumer Insights and Competitive Landscape to 2030
The report offers an overview of the retail market in South Korea, including macroeconomic analysis, market forecasts to 2030, consumer insights, market shares, and analysis on local brands. South Korea's retail market slowed sharply in 2025, but it is forecast to expand at a 2.5% CAGR to 2030, supported by online sales growth, even with ageing demographics, high household debt, and regulation. Food and grocery will remain the dominant sector, while health and beauty will lead growth at a 4.8%...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) World Cup Retail Market - Analyzing Trends, Consumer Attitudes and Major Players, 2026
The World Cup 2026 report forms part of GlobalData's Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive insight into the consumer dynamics and spending habits of UK consumers during the World Cup 2026. The report analyses the market, the main trends, and consumer attitudes Both viewership and positive sentiment toward the event rose in 2026 versus 2022, translating into higher participation and stronger purchase intent for occasion‑related items. The 2026 World Cup also showed a greater shift toward at‑home celebrations, partly driven...
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Company Insights
Currys plc: Digital Transformation Strategies
Currys plc (Currys) is a specialist omnichannel retailer of technology products and services, trading from 691 stores and online in six countries under the Currys brand label in the UK and Ireland and the Elkjøp, Elgiganten, and Gigantti brand labels in the Nordics. It also owns iD Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The retailer also offers credit, protection plans, repairs and recycling services as well as connectivity solutions through iD Mobile and a variety of third-party networks. Customers...
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Thematic Analysis
Global M&A Deals in H1 2026 - Top Themes by Sector: Strategic Intelligence
Why Does M&A Activity Matter? Mergers and acquisitions can provide a view into the themes reshaping industries and where companies are directing capital and strategic investment. The global M&A market recorded $1.7 trillion in deal value in H1 2026, up 47% from H1 2025. This report analyzes the most notable transactions across major sectors and identifies the disruptive themes driving M&A activity. You can use this report to: Understand the scale and direction of global M&A activity Identify disruptive themes...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home: Bedroom Textiles - Market Trends, Analysis, Consumer Dynamics and Spending Habits
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – Bedroom Textiles report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK bedroom textiles market. The report focuses on overall bedroom textiles products and its five sub-categories: Pillows & duvets, Covers, Blankets, Sheets and Bedroom accessories. Consumer data is based on our 2026 UK bedroom textiles survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
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