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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

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Natural and Organic Beauty

Consumers are increasingly aware of the health benefits of natural ingredients in beauty products, and demanding transparency from beauty brands ab...

Mintel : The Body Shop : Kiehl's

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Africa’s emerging middle class

All eyes to Africa, where a new report confirms the emergence of a meaningful number of middle class consumers and further expansion predicted over...

African Development Bank : Ghana : McKinsey & Co

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Craft Beer Market: US

A controversial shift from bottles to cans is part of a strategy to further fuel increases in sales of craft beers in a falling market.

Microbrews : Craft Beer : Cans

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Teens: Nigeria and West Africa

Teens make up a significant proportion of West Africans. Forty per cent of residents are under 15, according to the United Nations’ Population Divi...

Nigeria : World Bank : Blackberry

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Teens: India

Of India’s 1.2bn people, half are under the age of 20, and 163m are teens, according to online newspaper Business Today. By 2015, the proportion of...

India : Business Today : Puma

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Teens: China

There are about 200m teenage Chinese, according to the most recent Chinese national census – although that number is set to fall. The number of Chi...

China : Deloitte : H&M

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Cosmetics Market

It has become a truism that, while many consumer markets struggle in tough times, the cosmetics market holds up, thanks to the lipstick effect. Thi...

L'Oréal : Cosmetics : Lipstick Effect

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Male Beauty Market

In the 90s, the metrosexual was the key target consumer for men’s beauty companies. But now, career-focused men who wish to look more presentable a...

Metrosexual : Anti-ageing : L'Oréal

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Teens: USA

America’s teenage population is slowly falling (the US Census Bureau says it peaked at 26m a few years ago) and summer-time youth unemployment is a...

US Census Bureau : Facebook : Formspring

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Teens: Scandinavia

Scandinavian teens are now the biggest spenders among their age group in the world. Taken from our forthcoming Teen Futures report, this micro mark...

Sweden : Denmark : Finland

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Teens: South Africa

South African teens are exploring their roots, and mashing together influences to create a new identity. Taken from our forthcoming Teen Futures re...

South Africa : Johannesburg : Cape Town

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Fashion Market

Still reeling from the effects of the recent recession, the fashion industry is set to change even more dramatically in the years to come. The turb...

E-retail : M-commerce : Fast Fashion

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Utility Apps

Brands are using mobile apps as practical tools to assist, educate and serve consumers in and out of stores.

Utility Apps : Mobile Apps : Apps

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Kitchen Futures

The kitchen of 2040 will entertain and educate us, will help us to be more space- and energy-efficient, will be personalised to our needs, and will...

Kitchen : Ikea : Philips

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Luxury: Chengdu

Known as the Land of Abundance for its agricultural wealth, Chengdu is also the political and economic centre of western China. The capital of Sich...

Chengdu : China : Sichuan

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Luxury: Mumbai

Journalist and author Suketu Mehta called Mumbai ‘Maximum City’ for several reasons. With a population density of one million people per square mil...

Mumbai : India : Genesis Luxury

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Luxury: São Paulo

Home to 147,000 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), Brazil is the largest luxury market in South America, according to the 2010 World Wealth Report...

São Paulo : HNWIs : World Wealth Report

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Luxury: Shanghai

More than a century after Shanghai’s rise to prominence, the city where the Yangtze River meets the ocean is becoming home to a new wave of interna...

Shanghai : Hurun Report : Grand Hyatt

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Luxury: Ulan Bator

A small but deep pocket of mining wealth is attracting a host of the world’s luxury brands to the capital of Mongolia. And as a result, Ulan Bator ...

Ulan Bator : Mining : Zegna

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