Generations

Tracking the key characteristics and values of generational demographics as each cohort evolves.

Download: Generations Now and Next

From Baby Boomers and Gen X to Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, uncover what unites and divides consumers across generations

Macro Trends

Gen X: Ambiguity to Advocacy

Having long lived in the shadow of Baby Boomers and Millennials, Gen X are racing against time to make their influence felt

Macro Trends

Millennials: Pink to Prime

After a stuttering start to their adult lives, the first generation to use the internet as children are hitting their prime earning years

Macro Trends

Gen Z: Vision to Contradiction

Without the tools or role models to help them enact the change they want to see, Gen Z find themselves paralysed by paradox

Macro Trends

Alphas: Sandbox to Roblox

Many of the technologies, careers and crises that will define and shape the lives of Gen Alpha are yet to exist

Big Ideas

Kurt Geiger rubs shoulders with fashion bloggers

Magtail : Kurt Geiger : Fashion Blogs

Big Ideas

Pret-a-Portas puts luxury gloss on high street

Mary Portas : House Of Fraser : VIP

Micro Trends

Foraging Futures

Once seen as a means of survival for the thrifty and impoverished, food-foraging is driving sophisticated diners wild.

Forage : Wild : Seasonal

Micro Trends

Gourmet Junk: Drinks

Driven by nostalgia, today’s urban consumers demand upscale versions of junk food and drink.

Junk Food : Nostalgia : Milkshakes

Big Ideas

Asda and Diageo create UNITversity Challenge

Students : Alcohol : Kiosk

Micro Trends

Food Raves and Rodeos

Forget rock and roll music and psychedelic drugs, the latest rebellion of choice comes in the form of stir-fried pork belly and home-made flax crac...

DIY Culture : Entertainment : Festivals

Big Ideas

Retailers are old hands at targeting elderly

Coffee : Marketing : Grey Affluents

Communities

New Luxury Millennials

Drinking at The Connaught hotel in London one night, dining at Pershing Hall hotel in Paris the next, and having a business brunch at The Lydmar Ho...

Food : Affluent : Bob Bob Ricard

Design Directions

Scrawl Script

Brands are responding to the consumer’s need to know that there is a person behind their product, not a machine.

Handwritten : Painterly Primitive : Authentic

Markets

Fragrance

The global market for fragrances is set to grow, boosted by organic ingredients and a revival of Middle Eastern scents in the West.

Global Intelligence Alliance : Avon : Bulgari

Micro Trends

Co-opetition

Forward-thinking drinks brands are starting to cooperate as well as compete, helping to grow their respective categories and their own businesses. ...

Cooperation : Competition : Common

Micro Trends

Gourmet Junk

A new wave of independent and small-scale restaurants and retailers are creating premium upscale versions of fast food classics for reformed junk f...

Fast Food : Burgers : Nostalgia

Design Directions

Az-tech

As previously explored in our Mix Mash design direction, an optimistic and energetic aesthetic is emerging from the post-recession gloom.

Tribal : Neon : Ritualistic

Big Ideas

Hotels all of a Twitter about instant messaging

Twitter : Discounts : Communication

Big Ideas

All change: designer concept spaces get a facelift at Dover Street Market

Dover Street Market : Designer : London

Big Ideas

Uniqlo spreads web of influence in New York

Uniqlo : Twitter : Facebook

Markets

Luxury car market: China

With China due to overtake the US as the world’s biggest luxury consumer market in the coming five years, the country is seeing a burgeoning demand...

China : Autos : Hurun Report

Big Ideas

Gap goes behind the jeans with in-store videos

Transparency : Manufacturing : Facebook

Big Ideas

Sales of luxury cars among affluent Chinese continue to rise

Cars : Sports-car : Limousine

Big Ideas

Kids investment is child's play for Liberty

Kids investment is child’s play for Liberty

Liberty : Toys : Department Stores

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