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Robot vacuum cleaners emerge from niche penetration and are worth consideration as part of furniture selection priorities for a growing number of households. Furniture specifications can prevent robots from achieving 100% floor coverage, with…

In a world that now seems more about disruption than stability, it is always better to be the disruptor than the disrupted - and that means pushing horizons outwards. Strategy needs to be built as part of a wider consumer system rather than at…

Q1 2021 forecast update broadly aligns with the forecast review conducted in November of 2020, as pace of recovery also follows macro-economic trends in some of the key developing regions. While China is expected to see healthy rebound in 2021,…

2020 was a volatile year for the consumer appliances industry. In March 2020, most companies were focused on cost cutting, not knowing that demand would increase exponentially in Q3 and Q4. Demand in 2021 is expected to remain robust, boosted by…

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.…