Home and garden experienced healthy growth in 2016, owing to continuing housing growth. However, as consumers are shifting to multiple-dwelling units due to factors such as housing affordability or a desire to live closer to metropolitan areas, it ...

Home and garden in Thailand continued to record moderate current value growth in 2016, with home furnishings being the key driver of sales. Urban consumers are the key target audience for new designs and functional products. Smaller households and ...

Fuelled by strong economic growth, high consumer confidence and a decently performing housing market, home and garden saw another year of positive growth in 2016, particularly in gardening and home furnishings. UK consumers were keen to replace some ...

Following years of strong decline, home and garden in Italy managed to experience further recovery in 2016 after a noticeable improvement in 2015. Consumers, who were cautious about investing money into refurbishing and renewing their homes due to ...

Sales of home and garden in Indonesia continued to record positive growth in 2016 from the previous year. Even though progress was positive, growth was significantly lower compared to the 2014/2015 period due to uncertainty around the economic and ...

The government of India announced demonetisation in the month of November 2016, which had an adverse impact on home and garden sales. Demand for home improvement and furnishing products is high in the months of November and December because that is ...

2016 was another challenging year for the Brazilian economy, with the home and garden industry not immune from the deteriorating situation. Consumers continued to purchase products which were considered essential, with many of the items in home and ...

After two years of recession, home and garden demonstrated positive value growth in 2016, outperforming the review period CAGR. Moderate economic recovery, the making of postponed purchases and a still high inflation rate drove home improvement sales...

As the US housing market continued to recover in 2016, home and garden sales increased for the seventh consecutive year, recording value growth of 3% at current prices. This rate of growth was broadly in line with that of the review period, but fell ...

South Africa continues to struggle economically and politically, with the political environment negatively impacting the currency valuation in 2016. Inflation coupled with relatively high unemployment rates added to the country’s woes. Severe drought...

In 2016, the home and garden market recorded a 27% increase in value as a result of price increases on the local market. However, there were other factors that had a very negative impact on category value sales, such as the general fall in domestic ...

Home and garden in South Korea records value growth of 2% in 2016, which is the result of a favourable environment. Strong consumer interest in home improvement and home furnishing activities coupled with increased offerings from domestic and ...

Overall home and garden registered only moderate growth in 2016, as the market – largely dependent on imports of products and materials – was adversely affected by the strong depreciation of the Mexican peso against the US dollar, which hit its ...

Home and garden saw marginally slower current value growth in 2016 than in 2015. Weak economic conditions in Malaysia in 2016 negatively affected consumer confidence, particularly on big-ticket items such as home furnishings, which slowed down ...

Home and garden witnessed another strong performance in 2016 perpetuated by the stable economic conditions in the Netherlands, rising consumer confidence, the falling unemployment rate and a positive movement in the housing market. Consumers who had ...

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the Philippine economy grew by almost 7% in 2016, the fastest rate in three years. The economic growth led to a continued increase in disposable incomes in the country, which was particularly ...

Polish household budgets were positively impacted by the improved economical situation overall. Factors that contributed to the improved financial situation included a higher rate of employment and lower unemployment, raised minimum pay rate, as well...

Home and garden maintained steady growth in in current value terms in 2016, which was in line with the performance seen during the review period. Overall, growth has been supported by consumer enthusiasm for DIY and middle-class consumers trading up ...

Yet again, home and garden value sales in Switzerland were defined by another year of declining value sales. Whereas home improvement and homewares were able to maintain value sales resulting in static growth, home furnishings and gardening both ...

Despite slightly weaker current retail value growth in 2016 compared to 2015 due to economic slowdown, home and garden still posted healthy value growth in 2016. Rapid urbanisation drove demand for modern home furnishings. In addition to new home ...