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Analyst Opinions
Top Trends in Alcoholic Drinks 2018: Exploring the latest trends in the beer, cider, spirits and wine categories
"Top Trends in Alcoholic Drinks 2018", covers key trends to watch within the alcoholic drinks sector, drawing upon GlobalData's TrendSights framework, insight analysis, innovation intelligence, and product examples. The alcoholic space represents a highly innovative and dynamic environment for growth, especially as consumers begin to explore and push conventional boundaries. This report covers various emerging and evolving themes including the disputable ‘craft’ movement, commitment to sustainability, demand for sweeter indulgence, unusual ‘two-in-one’ drinks, and finally, the abstract ‘lifestyle’ movement.
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Thematic Analysis
Internet of Things in Utilities – Thematic Research
IoT is changing the face of the utilities industry. Utilities are facing significant challenges to their established business model, due to the increasing need to support distributed generation like wind and solar, storage, and electric vehicle charging, while keeping costs down. This is on top of the challenges of rising customer expectations, increasingly uncertain and complex regulation, and the need to replace assets that are reaching the end of their life. One of the key ways that utilities are exploring...
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Analyst Opinions
Top Trends in Alcoholic Drinks 2017: Balancing Novelty and Experience Alongside Growing Health Concerns
"Top Trends in Alcoholic Drinks 2017", covers key trends to watch within the alcoholic drinks sector, drawing upon GlobalData's TrendSights framework, insight analysis, innovation intelligence, and product examples. The alcoholic drinks sector represents a highly dynamic space for growth as consumers’ quest for experimentation continues to evolve. Overarching themes include growing demand for more low/no-alcohol and low-calorie products, the “craft” movement, and the influence of ethics, sustainability, and novelty factors within the industry.
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Sector Analysis
Payments in the US 2017: What Consumers Want
"Payments in the US 2017: What Consumers Want", report examines the consumer payments market in the US, considering payment cards, online payments, P2P payments, and newer payment technologies such as mobile wallets and contactless. The report also examines the main regulatory players overseeing the market. The US payment card market is highly mature and competitive, and features a wide range of card-issuing and alternative payment brands (including peer-to-peer [P2P], e-commerce, and mobile proximity payments). Consumers have a great deal of...
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Thematic Analysis
Ambient commerce – Thematic Research
As Sears files for bankruptcy, high street retailers are waking up to the fact that they need to innovate in order to survive. Many are looking at increasing their share of online sales, but the truly game changing retail technology is ambient commerce.
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Sector Analysis
Insurtech and Customer Services: Lessons for the Incumbents
The emergence of insurtech has been fueled by new digital capabilities and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are reducing costs, changing systems and processes, and enhancing the consumer experience. From an industry burdened by outdated systems and paper-based operations, the insurtech space has emerged as one of the largest innovation ecosystems globally in 2016, and is set to modernize the industry in the years going forward. It has taken a while for banks and insurance firms to fully embrace...
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Sector Analysis
Consumer Payments Country Snapshot: US 2016
In almost all areas of the payments market, the US is highly competitive and features a wide range of card-issuing brands and alternative payment brands. Consumers have a great deal of choice as a result, although this diversity has also led to a fragmented market in which alternative payment tools have struggled to gain market share over traditional options, and the one truly generalist tool available – cash – remains highly popular. This report examines the consumer payments market in...
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Sector Analysis
Wealth in the US: Sizing the Market Opportunity 2017
"Wealth in the US: Sizing the Market Opportunity 2017" analyzes the American wealth and retail savings and investments markets, with a focus on the HNW segment. The report is based on our proprietary datasets. The US is home to the largest affluent population in the world and hosts a very advanced financial services sector, including the most sophisticated mutual fund and equity markets globally. The large affluent population is financially literate with high retail participation in both equities and mutual...
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Sector Analysis
North America Computed Tomography (CT) Systems Market Outlook to 2025
GlobalData’s “North America Computed Tomography (CT) Systems Market Outlook to 2025” is a comprehensive databook report, covering key market data on the North America Computed Tomography (CT) Systems market. The databook report provides value (USD), volume (units) and average prices (USD) within market segments – 256-320 slice CT Systems, 128-slice CT Systems, 64-slice CT Systems, 20-40 slice CT Systems and 16-slice and below CT Systems. The North America Computed Tomography (CT) Systems Market report provides key information and data on:...