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Sector Analysis
NewUnited Kingdom (UK) Mother’s Day Intentions and Consumer Spending Preferences, 2024 Update
United Kingdom (UK) Mother’s Day Market Report Overview More than 53% of consumers intend to purchase at least one item for Mother’s Day in 2024, including spending on leisure activities. The intended participation in celebrating Mother’s Day diminishes with age, ranking highest among 16-24-year-old consumers. This 16-24-year-old age group is the most engaged purchaser, intending to purchase food & drink gifts, and clothing for their mothers or loved ones. The UK Mother’s Day market research report offers a comprehensive insight...
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Thematic Analysis
Future of Physical Retail – Thematic Intelligence
Future of Physical Retail Thematic Overview Online retail growth significantly outpaced the offline market both before and during the pandemic. However, since 2021, consumers have valued being able to make purchases in-store and the popularity of online shopping has decreased. Despite online retail outpacing offline retail growth, its share of the total retail market will remain relatively steady between 2024 and 2028. Due to the high cost of living, several consumers have switched to discounters, many of which do not...
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Sector Analysis
United States (US) Retail Consumer Insights – Spending Intentions and Shopping Habits, 2024
US Retail Consumer Insights Report Overview More than 46% of consumers believe the economy will worsen over the next six months. Thus, consumers intend to cut back on retail goods and services. Furthermore, many US consumers stated that they are switching to economic brand alternatives to cope with cost pressures. This means that retailers must have a broad pricing architecture of brands stocked in-store to entice shoppers to trade up and down within the same retailer. The ‘US Retail Consumer...
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Sector Analysis
Germany Retail Consumer Insights – Spending Intentions and Shopping Habits, 2024
This report provides detailed consumer insights into Germany's retail market. It focuses on the macroeconomic environment, consumer sentiment, cost pressures, offline retail, online retail, and secondhand products. German consumers are apprehensive about the state of the economy over the next six months (close to 57% of respondents expect the economy to worsen), and retail spend is set to suffer, with close to half of consumers intending to cut back. Online penetration for Germany is forecast to be 13.3% in 2024,...
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Thematic Analysis
Frictionless Commerce – Thematic Intelligence
Frictionless Commerce Thematic Report Overview At present, consumers demand instant gratification, and frictionless commerce aims to provide it. Frictionless commerce was pioneered by Amazon. It uses technology to identify the shopper, recognize their chosen objects, and bill them after they leave the store. The Frictionless Commerce thematic intelligence report provides an overview of the current landscape, as well as key players making a mark within it. The report provides an industry-specific analysis based on GlobalData databases and surveys, along with...
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Thematic Analysis
Retail M&A Deals 2023 – Top Themes – Thematic Intelligence
This report analyzes the disruptive themes that have driven M&A activity in 2023 in the Retail Sector
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Sector Analysis
Global Hiring Activity – Trends and Signals 2023
The Hiring Trends and Signals report provides valuable insights into employment trends, job listings, and other important information. The report aims to support decision-making by providing a competitive advantage and a deeper understanding of employment trends, roles, skills, locations, and themes. It delivers critical job insights to corporations and talent/staffing platforms. The report enables competitive analytics and intelligence through proxy signals from job roles, locations, themes and skills. It helps corporations and academia anticipate the future of work, trending skills,...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Valentine’s Day Spending Intentions and Consumer Attitudes, 2024 Update
UK Valentine’s Day Consumer Spending Report Overview The Retail Valentine's Day Intentions 2024 report forms part of GlobalData's Retail Occasions series. It showcases the buying patterns for Valentine’s Day in the United Kingdom. The report gives an in-depth insight into the shopper profile (age, sex, location), preferred gifting options, and the various activities consumers undertake to spend the day. The report suggests that shoppers in the age group of 16-24 years have the highest intentions to spend on 2024 Valentine's...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Fireworks – Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection
United Kingdom (UK) Fireworks Market Report Overview The UK fireworks market research report forms a part of GlobalData's Retail Occasions series. It showcases the buying patterns of fireworks in the United Kingdom. The report gives an in-depth insight into the firework shopper profile (age, sex, location), and the various occasions motivating the fireworks purchase. It also provides information on the factors driving retailer selection, the purchasing channels, store types, and fulfilment options available for consumers in the UK fireworks market....
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Christmas – Analysing Buying Dynamics, Channel Usage, Spending and Retailer Selection
UK Christmas Retail Market Overview The proportion of consumers shopping for Christmas increased in 2023. A third of consumers stated that they started Christmas shopping earlier last year compared to the previous year. Among these consumers, most of them stated that this was to spread the cost of the occasion to feel better prepared for Christmas this year. Consumers also leveraged finance options such as Buy Now Pay Later for cost spreading. The UK Christmas market research report offers a...