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IntroductionLess than a quarter of Chinese consumers believe that they are currently living in a recession, compared to 90% of Americans. This is indicative of an altogether more optimistic outlook for the Chinese economy and a more positive mindset among Chinese shoppers. Nevertheless, Chinese cons ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
IntroductionThis case study on Crabtree & Evelyn forms part of Datamonitor's case studies series, which explores business practices across a variety of disciplines and business sectors. It focuses on how the how the brand has retained its leading position despite an influx of new players onto the ma ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
IntroductionThis case study on Dream Dinners forms part of Datamonitor's case studies series, which explores business practices across a variety of disciplines and business sectors. It looks at how the meal preparatioon business has grown quickly by addressing health and convenience demands.Reasons ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
IntroductionThis case study on Sprinkles forms part of Datamonitor's case studies series, which explores business practices across a variety of disciplines and business sectors. It focuses on how the cupcake retailer has captitalized on consumer demand for comfort and indulgent foods with an everyda ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Bulgaria?s economy and political situation are in a state of flux, pending the national elections in July.The European Commission reinstated the Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession (ISPA) andpre-accession assistance (PHARE) funds for projects in Bulgaria, providing a boost for the ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
In BMI?s United States Q309 Infrastructure Report we are forecasting the US construction industry tocontract by 12.7% year-on-year in 2009, to reach a value of US$502.52bn.Data for the construction industry?s real growth in 2008 was released in late April 2009, and showed a5.6% contraction in the in ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
Taiwan has been hit hard by the global economic downturn because of its reliance on export revenues.This has fed through into all sectors of the economy, including infrastructure. In BMI?s Q309 TaiwanInfrastructure Report, we are now forecasting a 15% y-o-y contraction in the real industry value in ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
IntroductionThe Sensory mega-trend reflects how quality remains an important influencer in grocery shopping; a higher proportion of shoppers in most countries stated that overall quality was more influential in their grocery shopping than lower prices, showing how consumers value quality items, even ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Introduction90% of US consumers believe that they are currently living in a recession. This is indicative of an intensifying 'recessionary mindset' influencing consumer behavior. Symptomatic of falling consumer confidence is the fact that more than one-in-three US consumers experienced a worsening f ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Despite the government?s continued commitment to supporting the development of Brazil?sinfrastructure, the country will be hit hard by the impact of the credit crunch on private investors. As aresult of this and other downside risks we have revised down our forecasts for Brazil?s constructionindust ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
We estimate that real construction sector growth in 2008 was -4.7%. The performance of the constructionsector in 2009 is likely to be even worse. The Thai economy contracted by 7.1% y-o-y in the first quarterof 2009 and we foresee the economy shrinking by 4.5% in real terms across 2009 as a whole. I ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
As the UK has been severely hit by the global recession, it seems that government spending andincentives are not enough to galvanise the economy and boost investor confidence in the infrastructuresector. This quarter, we have once again revised downwards our forecasts for the UK construction, and by ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
At this stage, we are forecasting the construction industry value to rise from YER119.9bn (US$0.6bn) in2008 to YER167.4bn (US$0.8bn) in 2013 representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of of6.94% over the forecast period. A big problem over the next few years will be a reduction in publicreven ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
The third tender for the construction of a new high-speed railway in southern France dominated thetransport infrastructure sector this quarter. It was solely a French affair, with the usual suspects ? Vinci,Eiffage and Bouygues ? shortlisted for the contract to build, maintain and operate the Contou ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
We now believe that real growth in Australia?s construction industry will register a contraction of -1.2%in 2009, compared with our previous forecast (made last quarter) of -3.2%. In 2010, we now believe thatthe sector will undergo real growth of 0.3%, before accelerating to 1.8% real growth in 2011 ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
The strong results of China Railway Group (that has been bolstered by new government contracts), aswell as the existence of several ongoing infrastructure projects, are clear signs of sustained activity inChina?s infrastructure sector. These developments put China?s infrastructure sector on a positi ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
The global downturn continued to negatively affect Japan over the quarter with infrastructure projects indecline. BMI forecasts negative growth for the construction industry in Japan over 2009 with asubstantial -11.2% drop in real growth y-o-y. The industry is expected to show decline throughout 201 ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
Infrastructure spending, which has felt the strain of the slowdown, will continue to feel it in 2009. Thegovernment?s willingness to plough money into the economy, and some big loans from foreign lendersand multilateral institutions for major projects, will soften but not eliminate the pain.In BMI?s ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
In BMI?s Q309 Ecuador Infrastructure Report we are forecasting construction industry value to grow by0.45% to reach a value of US$4.53bn. Ecuador?s infrastructure sector continues to be in turmoil andtherefore we believe risks are to the downside.On the positive side, the utilities sector received a ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
Qatar has been one of BMI?s best prospects for growth in the infrastructure sector in the Middle East in2009. Although our forecasts have been revised downwards, we still expect it to achieve one of thehighest growth rates in the region this year. In BMI?s Q309 Qatar Infrastructure Report we arefore ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
In the previous quarter we revisited our short-term outlook for Turkey and became more bearish in ouroutlook for the industry value and growth level for 2009. The full-year figure for 2008 came in worsethan expected at YTL44.8bn; we were forecasting YTL46bn. The real growth rate according to thestat ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
The ?Patent Almanac ? 2009? provides a snapshot of the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The patent indicators presented in this compendium are specifically designed to reflect recent trends in inventive activities across a wide range of countries. Patent-based statistics ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
European Union Consumer Psychographics ? 2009 gives a complete set of data and related information concerning consumer markets and consumer protection issues within the EU. The aim of the report is to bring together the most relevant and useful information for the evaluation and development of consu ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
The Worldwide Marketing Consulting Services Industry report contains timely and accurate industry statistics, forecasts and demographics. The report features 2009 current and 2010 forecast estimates on the size of the industry (sales, establishments, employment) for the 47 largest world countries, ...
Industries : Marketing
Euromonitor's Consumer Lifestyles in Azerbaijan report analyses factors influencing national consumer expenditure. Consumer lifestyles reports include coverage of: population, urban development, home ownership, household profiles, labour, income, consumer and family expenditure, health, education, e ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Euromonitor's Consumer Lifestyles in Malaysia report analyses factors influencing national consumer expenditure. Consumer lifestyles reports include coverage of: population, urban development, home ownership, household profiles, labour, income, consumer and family expenditure, health, education, eat ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
IntroductionWhen surveyed by Datamonitor in August 2008, more than two thirds of respondents across the Asia Pacific region expressed the view that using specifically-designed products is 'important' or 'very important' to them. This is indicative of consumers' growing desire (across geographic te ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Introduction82% of South Korean consumers believe that they are currently living in a recession. This is indicative of an intensifying 'recessionary mindset' influencing consumer behavior. Symptomatic of falling consumer confidence is that more than one-in-four South Korean consumers experienced a w ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
IntroductionFor 75% of consumers across 17 countries and 4 regions, "maintaining or improving health" has become more important to them in the 2 years since Datamonitor's 2007 report New Developments in Global Consumer Trends. This report outlines how over 40 health-driven trends influence consumer ...
Industries : Consumer Trends
Angola's economy minister, Manuel Nunes, announced in mid-February that the country is expected toregister growth of over 3% in 2009. We have a more bearish attitude, noting that reduced oil exports anddeclining government spending will result in a forecast 0.8% contraction of the economy in 2009. T ...
Industries : Consumer Trends, Real Estate
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