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Market research on consumer products, commercial industries, demographics trends and consumer lifestyles in the United Kingdom. Includes comprehensive data and analysis, tables and charts, with five-year forecasts.
Sales of baby and child-specific products continued to grow in the UK in 2022, with a slow rise in volume terms and an inflationary price push driving strong growth in current value terms. As observed in other categories, baby and child-specific…
The impact of inflation, which reached historic heights in 2022, along with the cost-of-living crisis and increases in prices, saw volumes decline in all bath and shower categories in the UK in 2022, with increases in prices only partially offsetting…
Beauty and personal care in the UK experienced strong total current value growth in 2022, partly driven by soaring inflation, which resulted in strong price hikes for consumer goods. Inflationary pressures seeped across the UK, stemming from the…
The briefing introduces the Cities Households Necessities Spending Index. The index ranks 1,075 cities by household expenditure on non-discretionary items, namely food, housing, and clothing and footwear. This analysis focuses on 160 major cities.…
After a turbulent few years during the COVID-19 pandemic, colour cosmetics continued its recovery in 2022, building on the slow momentum seen in 2021. Retail current value sales increased across all product categories, demonstrating a return to many…
In the upcoming years, consumers and businesses face an array of challenges, with income inequality, mass migration and rising uncertainty about another crisis being among the major ones. Nevertheless, within this lie untapped opportunities. This…
In the upcoming years, consumers and businesses face an array of challenges, with rising income inequality being among the key ones. Nevertheless, addressing the income inequality through catering to the Bottom of the Pyramid and the Middle Class…
After two years of pandemic-driven decline, in 2022 all deodorants categories except deodorant wipes returned to growth in both volume and current value terms, as consumers went back to their normal social lives, and also travelled more. Deodorant…
Historically, depilatories in the UK declined in both current value and volume terms, but value sales increased in 2022 owing to rising inflation. In volume terms, the demand for more permanent solutions for hair removal and the reopening of beauty…
In 2022, current value sales of fragrances reached the pre-pandemic level after more than two years of recovery, seeing one of the fastest growth rates in beauty and personal care. The demand for fragrances grew as people went back to their normal…
As of May 2020, Euromonitor International has further downgraded the baseline global real GDP growth forecast for 2020 to a range of -4.0% to -1.5. Advanced economies are expected to be the hardest hit in this recession, with their economic activity…
This report examines inflation levels and drivers globally and in key countries. In 2023, global inflation is expected to ease from its peak in 2022, but remaining significantly above-trend. Geopolitical risks and uncertainty in the energy market are…
The report examines inflation level and drivers globally and in the key countries. Global inflation is forecast to accelerate due to higher energy and commodity prices, disruptions in supply chains and weaker business confidence. Impact varies…
This report examines inflation levels and drivers globally and in key countries. Global inflation is reaching a peak, although geopolitical risks and uncertainty in the energy market remain key risks. The impact varies between countries, with…
This report examines inflation levels and drivers globally and in key countries. Global inflation is reaching a peak, although geopolitical risks and uncertainty in the energy market remain key risks. The impact varies between countries, with…
This report examines inflation levels and drivers globally and in key countries in Q4 2023 and 2024. Global inflation is moderating, although divergence remains among the key economies. Higher volatility in the energy markets and disruption of…
The global outlook has improved as of Q1 2021, thanks to vaccination progress in many developed countries. Nevertheless, the recovery prospects remain distant for most economies in the face of the spread of new, more infectious variants of the virus.…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the most severe global recession in nearly a century. Businesses are operating in a world of anxieties and uncertainties, not knowing what will be the new normal or when output and consumer spending…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered the most severe global recession since World War II. In Q4 2020, the end of the pandemic started as countries began administering effective vaccines among the population; however, vaccine distribution…
As the end of 2021 approaches, almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence and rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant has increased uncertainty and weakened the momentum of the global recovery. This series of quarterly reports…