Businesses globally are facing changes in consumer markets in the short term, owing to the rising cost of living and increasingly financially cautious consumers. Income and expenditure insights are crucial in identifying how to maintain consumer loyalty and reach increasingly frugal consumers.
Our recent Voice of The Consumer: Lifestyle Survey indicates that over 30% of consumers in Europe intend to put more money aside for savings in 2022. At the same time, over 50% of surveyed Europeans report value for money as a factor of choice when buying household essentials.
The post-pandemic consumer landscape has been transformed by major behavioural shifts on the part of consumers, in terms of how they live, work, play and shop. Key shifts in consumer behaviour – including the adoption of digitalised, home-centric lifestyles, increased concern about social and environmental responsibility, and a greater focus on value – have given rise to new consumer needs and priorities and necessitated the need for companies to rethink their strategies in order to stay relevant in the long term.
Rising inflation has placed the global economy in limbo. With 57% of the global population projected to live in cities in 2022, the rising cost of living is anticipated to put urban consumers in a precarious position, especially in low-income cities where a high share of consumer budgets is devoted to essentials such as food and non-alcoholic beverages and housing.
Inflation is now top of mind for economies, businesses and consumers alike. Rising prices affect consumer purchasing power, while resulting in changes in their spending and shopping behaviour. Growing production costs due to higher raw materials and transportation prices, being coupled with shifting consumer behaviour, mean companies now need to adjust their strategies in order to retain customers, profit margins and growth momentum.
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Global middle class consumers are increasingly shifting away from conspicuous and wasteful consumption towards more selective and conscious spending, in a megatrend we at Euromonitor International called the Middle Class Reset. This shift in the middle class mindset and their consumption choices will be long-term and will contribute to shaping the global consumer market of the future.
The consumer landscape of 2022 will be characterised by a strong rebound in consumer expenditure on hotels and catering, transport, and leisure and recreation, as pent-up demand is released.
中国、インド、インドネシア、タイ、フィリピン、ベトナムを含む新興アジアは、その人口構成、消費者層の拡大、都市化、急速な技術導入とデジタルトランスフォーメーションを背景に、今後20年間、世界の新興市場の中でも最もエキサイティングな地域のひとつであり続けるだろう。本文では、これらの経済圏の今後の経済成長と消費拡大を追及し、この地域での事業拡大を目指す企業にとっての機会と課題を考えていく。