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Analyst Opinions
Agentic AI: Sector Impact and Innovations
As AI agents move from proof-of-concept to large-scale deployments, they are showing significant potential to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and personalization. Emerging vendors like Hippocratic AI (healthcare), Boosted.AI (financial services), Agentech (financial services), FleetWorks (transportation, infrastructure, and logistics), Harvey (legal and compliance), and Pando (transportation, infrastructure, and logistics) are at the forefront of this transformation. Their tools, which integrate advanced reasoning frameworks, multi-agent collaboration models, and intelligent retrieval techniques, are creating scalable and adaptable AI systems that cater to sector-specific...
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home Decorative DIY Market Trends, Analysis, Consumer Dynamics and Spending Habits
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – Decorative DIY report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK Decorative DIY market. The report focuses on overall Decorative DIY products and its twelve sub-categories: Tiles, Tiling, Mouldings, Paint, Woodcare, Wallpaper, Wallpaper paste, Abrasives, Decorative chemicals, Paint tools & accessories, Tiling tools & accessories, and Wallpaper tools & accessories. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK Decorative survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home Lightside DIY Market Trends, Analysis, Consumer Dynamics and Spending Habits
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – Lightside DIY report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK Lightside DIY market. The report focuses on overall Lightside DIY products and its eight sub-categories: Jointing, Fillers, Fixings, Adhesives, Tapes, Maintenance chemicals, Switches & sockets, and Electrical accessories. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK Lightside DIY survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
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Sector Analysis
United Kingdom (UK) Home Heavyside DIY Market Trends, Analysis, Consumer Dynamics and Spending Habits
The UK: Home Category Data, The Consumer – Heavyside DIY report offers a comprehensive insight into consumer attitudes in the UK Heavyside DIY market. The report focuses on overall Heavyside DIY products and its five sub-categories: Plaster and plasterboard, Materials, Radiators & plumbing, Roofing & guttering, Cladding & damp proofing, Tarpaulins, and Doors & windows. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK Heavyside survey, using a panel of 2,000 nationally representative consumers.
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Consumer Insights
Republic of Ireland Retail Market, Consumer Insights and Competitive Landscape to 2029
This report offers an overview of the retail market in Republic of Ireland, including macroeconomic analysis, market forecasts to 2029, consumer insights, market shares, and analysis on local brands. Falling inflation levels and steady wage growth meant that consumer confidence in the Republic of Ireland was robust in 2024. As inflation lowered in 2024, growth continued to be robust but lower at 2.9%. In Q4 2024, inflation remained a concern for 97.3% of consumers across all age groups in Ireland,...
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Thematic Analysis
Customer Loyalty in Retail and Apparel - Strategic Intelligence
Customers are the foundation of any successful business, and retailers are no exception. If individuals are devoted to a retailer or brand, they will spend money, talk positively about the business, and return to make more purchases in the future. This is the definition of customer loyalty, and the difference between the success or failure of a retailer. However, building customer loyalty in an era of fierce competition in the retail sector is challenging.
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Company Insights
Søstrene Grene: Success Case Study
Success Case Study: Søstrene Grene provides a deep dive analysis of the factors driving the retailer's success in the home sector
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Company Insights
Next - Digital Transformation Strategies
Next Plc (Next) is a specialty retailer that merchandises clothing, beauty products and homeware products through self-owned and franchised stores in the UK, Ireland and 34 countries across the world. The company sells both third-party brands as well as its own NEXT products through brick-and-mortar and online stores. NEXT Online, the company’s online portal, caters to millions of UK and overseas customers. Next also offers products on credit through its credit division – NEXT Finance. The report provides information and...
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Thematic Analysis
Future of Work in Retail and Apparel - Strategic Intelligence
The future of retail delivery presents further opportunities for employment and lifestyle changes. To reduce the disproportionately high costs of the last mile, retailers are starting to deploy autonomous vehicles and drones to deliver packages. Automation in the final part of the supply chain will decrease transport costs, though potentially lead to human couriers becoming redundant at some point in the future – though this seems a long way off currently. Automation will help navigate cost challenges Automation, particularly through...
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Consumer Insights
United Kingdom (UK) Secondhand Electricals Market - Consumer Insights
This report offers an overview of consumer attitudes in the UK secondhand electricals market Secondhand electricals purchasing penetration falls with age, from a high of 15.6% among 16-24-year-olds to 2.6% among over 65s. 64.8% of secondhand electricals purchases are driven by the desire to save money, with this being especially important to consumers in a big-ticket category.
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