Apparel Retail: Global Industry Guide

Apparel Retail: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Apparel Retail: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the apparel retail industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The majority of the world’s large developed markets such as the US and Japan are struggling to contend with reduced consumer spending due to tight economic conditions.

Developing countries such as China, India parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe are characterized by rapid economic expansion and strong growth in consumer spending, which has led to very healthy increases in apparel retail revenues.

One of the most significant issues affecting the industry has been the expiry at the beginning of 2005 of the Multi Fiber Arrangement, which imposed strict limits on imports of apparel and textiles from developing to developed countries.

Why you should buy this report:

* Spot future trends and developments

* Inform your business decisions

* Add weight to presentations and marketing materials

* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Definition

The apparel retail industry consists of the sale of all menswear, womenswear and infantswear. The menswear sector includes all garments made for men and boys. It includes both outer and under garments. The womenswear sector consists of the retail sale of all women's and girls' garments including dresses, suits and coats, jackets, tops, shirts, skirts, blouses, sweatshirts, sweaters, underwear etc. The infantswear sector is calculated as sales of garments for children between the ages of 0-2 years.

Industry value is calculated at retail selling price (RSP), and includes all taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used within this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

Asia-Pacific consists of China, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia.

The global industry refers to the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Datamonitor's Apparel Retail: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the apparel retail industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The majority of the world’s large developed markets such as the US and Japan are struggling to contend with reduced consumer spending due to tight economic conditions.

Developing countries such as China, India parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe are characterized by rapid economic expansion and strong growth in consumer spending, which has led to very healthy increases in apparel retail revenues.

One of the most significant issues affecting the industry has been the expiry at the beginning of 2005 of the Multi Fiber Arrangement, which imposed strict limits on imports of apparel and textiles from developing to developed countries.

Why you should buy this report:

* Spot future trends and developments

* Inform your business decisions

* Add weight to presentations and marketing materials

* Save time carrying out entry-level research

Definition

The apparel retail industry consists of the sale of all menswear, womenswear and infantswear. The menswear sector includes all garments made for men and boys. It includes both outer and under garments. The womenswear sector consists of the retail sale of all women's and girls' garments including dresses, suits and coats, jackets, tops, shirts, skirts, blouses, sweatshirts, sweaters, underwear etc. The infantswear sector is calculated as sales of garments for children between the ages of 0-2 years.

Industry value is calculated at retail selling price (RSP), and includes all taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used within this report have been calculated using constant 2004 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

Asia-Pacific consists of China, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia.

The global industry refers to the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific.