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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home: Bathroom Textiles Market Trends, Consumer Dynamics and Retail Opportunities, 2025
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – bathroom textiles report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK bathroom textiles market. The report focuses on overall bathroom textiles products and its three sub-categories: Face cloths, Towels, and Bath mats. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK bathroom textiles survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home: Bathroom Accessories Market Trends, Consumer Dynamics and Retail Opportunities
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – Bathroom Accessories report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK Bathroom Accessories market. The report focuses on overall Bathroom Accessories products and its four sub-categories: Sink/toilet accessories, Bath/shower accessories, Storage & bins, and Other bathroom accessories. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK Bathroom Accessories survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers. '56.4% of UK consumers have purchased Bathroom Accessories products in the last 12 months,...
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Analyst Opinions
Spatial Computing: Market Trends and Innovations
Spatial computing is moving beyond immersive visualization to form the structural layer of intelligent, connected environments. The latest Innovation Radar: Spatial Computing report explores how advances in AI, IoT, 5G, and cloud computing are shaping systems that can sense, analyze, and act in real time, bringing the physical and digital worlds into shared, interactive spaces. At the core of this transition is an evolving architecture that links the capture, transmission, processing, and application of spatial data. It begins when sensors,...
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Company Insights
Target Corporation: Digital Transformation Strategies
Target Corp (Target) is a retail company that offers a wide range of merchandise and everyday essentials at discounted prices. The company offers perishables, dry grocery, frozen products, household essentials, school and office supplies, jewelry, shoes, video games, consoles, toys, sporting goods, beauty and personal care, and sports and outdoor products, among others. Additionally, Target provides household cleaning products, healthcare items, baby gear, and pet supplies. The company also sells merchandise through exclusive design partnerships and shop-in-shop experiences with brands...
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Thematic Analysis
FDI Trends in APAC (2025)
Overall, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region experienced significant growth in inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for 2024. This growth was primarily focused on sectors such as renewables, communications/media, and electronics, with the United States, United Kingdom, and France identified as major investors. In 2025, increasing trade barriers and geopolitical tensions are altering the landscape of APAC FDI. While protectionist measures and security-driven screening are redirecting some investments, such as semiconductors from Taiwan, towards the United States, resilient markets like India and...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Retail Parks Market Size, Sector Performace, Consumer Trends and Top Retailers to 2029
The UK Retail Parks Market 2024-2029 report offers comprehensive insight and analysis of UK Retail Parks (including forecasts up to 2029), the key retailers, and consumer attitudes. It provides in-depth analysis of the following: the market size and forecasts, sector performance and forecasts, retailer usage across different sectors, and consumer data. The report focuses on seven key sectors: clothing & footwear, electricals, furniture & floorcoverings, health & beauty, homewares, DIY & gardening and other. Consumer data is based on our...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Food and Grocery Retailing Market Size, Trends, Consumer Attitudes and Key Players to 2029
The UK food & grocery report offers a comprehensive insight into the food & grocery market in the UK, analysing the sector, the major players, the main trends, and consumer attitudes, as well as providing market forecasts out to 2029. The value of the UK food & grocery sector grew over 2% in 2024, driven by outperforming mid-market players. Volumes declined marginally as consumers adjusted their spending in response to rising prices. The online food & grocery channel will outpace...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Christmas Intentions: Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection
The GlobalData Retail Christmas Intentions 2025 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive overview of the retail occasion of Christmas, analysing consumers' intentions for spending. The proportion of consumers that have already bought for Christmas 2025 has increased across the majority of the festive categories, with gifts for adults experiencing the biggest increase.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Furniture and Floorcoverings Market Size, Sector Performace, Consumer Trends and Top Retailers to 2029
The UK Furniture & Floorcoverings report offers a comprehensive insight into the Furniture & Floorcoverings market in the UK, analysing the sector, the major players, the main trends, and consumer attitudes, as well as providing market forecasts out to 2029. After a decline of 2.1% in 2024 due to the squeeze on consumers’ discretionary incomes, the furniture & floorcoverings sector is forecast to grow by 2.2% in 2025. Albeit up against two years of negative comparatives, growth will be boosted...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Off to University: Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection
The GlobalData Retail UK Off to University 2025 report forms part of the Retail Occasions series, and offers a comprehensive overview of the retail occasion of students starting and returning back to university, analysing the market, the major players, the main trends and consumer attitudes.
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