Home and Garden

After several years of current value decline, home and garden returned to growth in 2018, and this is expected to continue in the forecast period. Strong performances were seen by LED lamps, robotic lawn mowers and electric barbecues, due to trends ...

Current value growth in home and garden strengthened in 2018, with higher increases seen in all categories than in the previous year. With an overall increase in volume sales and stable unit prices, healthy value growth was seen in 2018. Another ...

High per capita spend in homewares makes Western Europe an attractive region, especially as economic conditions are set to improve over 2018-2023. The increasing healthy living trend, favouring home-based cooking, is creating growth opportunities for...

Economic growth remained strong in Canada in 2018; at a macroeconomic level, the country witnessed increased spending from households and a historically low rate of unemployment, which combined to help build consumer confidence. This, in turn, led to...

Kingfisher Plc is a leading home improvement and gardening retailer with a presence in Western and Eastern Europe. However, the company has gone through major changes in its latest fiscal year FY18/19, from the stepping down of chief executive ...

Despite being cost-conscious, many connected Indian consumers are becoming willing to increase their expenditure on purchases of products and services. This change in consumers’ inclination towards expenditure is fuelled by the increase in the median...

During 2018, the US economy continued to grow and recover. Rising incomes and higher disposable incomes, combined with growth in the housing market, allowed home and garden to sustain a positive performance for a ninth consecutive year in current ...

South Africa experienced a technical recession in the first quarter of 2018, hampering consumer spending which resulted in moderate growth for the overall home and garden industry. The gardening category showed resilience as some categories were able...

Falling interest rates, the levelling out of house prices and weak forecast construction activity are likely to boost renovation activity in future, representing good news for Western Europe’s DIY industry. Renovations of bathrooms and kitchens are ...

The home improvement industry has been slow to adapt to shifts in consumer behaviour and rapid technological change. However, the emergence of online home improvement specialists drives home the message that home improvement retailers must adapt to ...

Voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant will further embed the smart home within consumer lifestyles, while 2018/2019 will be a watershed for direct-to-consumer brands in the home and garden industry. Sustainability will transition...

The Philippines faced several policy changes impacting the economy in general in 2018, but despite all this, Filipino spending on household goods continued to grow. The residential property sector is still on a rise, making new home buyers still the ...

Total population growth in 2018 was 0.5%, compared to 0.1% in the previous year. This slow growth has also impacted housing completions growth. Growth of housing completions was 3.7% in 2018 – and it is expected to slow over the forecast period. The ...

In 2018, the Argentinian economy passed through three stages, each with a negative sales balance. Thus, a currency devaluation shock was followed by a cooling of the economy due to uncertainty and then recession, which reduced production volumes and ...

As Brazil leaves behind the worst economic recession it has faced in the last century, retail expenditure has finally shown signs of recovery, albeit slow paced. As a result, there were improvements in unemployment and housing rates, higher consumer ...

In 2018, home and garden in Spain continued to record steady current value growth, with sales supported by the ongoing recovery of the country’s housing market. Home improvement and home furnishings were the categories which benefited the most as ...

Home and garden in Italy posted only modest current value growth in 2018 as strong competition between retailers served to lower unit prices on the one hand, while on the other falling household sizes reduced the need to buy products which are not ...

Home and garden in the Netherlands recorded current value growth in 2018, yet this was the weakest growth registered since 2015. Slow growth was driven by the weakening housing market, whereby the number of new houses decreased and the number of ...

Despite the economic downturn in the region in general, and in the United Arab Emirates in particular, with the implementation of VAT and other regulations, home and garden continued to record positive growth in current value terms in 2018. The ...

In 2018, Hong Kong property prices continued to soar with the property market seeing more small flats being built. Dubbed “nano” flats in the media, these housing units are less than 200sq ft, cost an average of HKD4 million to buy and are popular ...