Summary Slides Home improvement forecasts and outlook: Spring 2019 update 29 Mar 2019 By: Doug Hermanson. 11 Slides Kantar Consulting’s latest home improvement forecasts indicate a sea change is upon the channel after it led the retail average for most of the postrecession period. Summary Slides Going Fast in a Slowdown: How a Recession Might Impact the Near Future of Commerce 21 Mar 2019 By: Bryan Gildenberg, Doug Hermanson. 52 Slides Now is the time to prepare for a potential economic slowdown. Kantar Consulting’s Chief Knowledge Officers and lead economist provide a new framework for speeding up your engagement with consumers as the economy slows. Summary Slides U.S. macro outlook: 2019 channel forecast 11 Mar 2019 By: Doug Hermanson. 40 Slides The latest macro outlook focuses on the job, price, channel, category, and geographic trends expected for the 2019 sales season, including what the 2018 holiday means for growth this year. Summary Slides U.S. retail outlook for 2019+ 16 Jan 2019 By: Kantar Consulting Research Team. 60 Slides What’s on tap for U.S. retail this year? Our comprehensive report covers macro, shopper, channel, and retailer expectations for 2019. Summary Slides US eCommerce outlook: Category group forecasts 31 Oct 2018 By: Doug Hermanson. 9 Slides This slide deck summarizes Kantar Consulting’s U.S. online and in-store category spending forecasts to 2023. Additionally, gain access to all data and charts for fifteen online categories through a link on the webpage. View All Event Presentations Summary Slides Life stage spending: Forecasts and implications for the next decade 15 Dec 2018 By: Doug Hermanson. 51 Slides Understand the forces shaping shoppers’ expectations about what a shopping experience can and should be. Learn the main “types” of value equations that shoppers today are seeking to maximize. Discover strategies to cope with this complex and uncomfortable shopper landscape and unlock growth. Summary Slides Forming new alliances in the battle for share: Key insights and interactive workshop 14 Dec 2018 By: Doug Hermanson. 30 Slides Identify the fastest-growing areas of the consumer industry. Learn how CPG categories are teaming up with fast-growing areas of the consumer industry to outpace total growth. Summary Slides Capitalizing on the future of services in an interconnected retail environment 14 Dec 2018 By: Doug Hermanson, Hannah Hayes. 57 Slides Recognize the opportunity to generate incremental sales as shoppers shift more spending toward retailer services. Understand how new technology and the push to create seamless, interconnected retail operations enable both new opportunities and disruptions to the services landscape. Summary Slides Turkey: Retail Today and Tomorrow (But Mostly Today) 10 Dec 2018 By: Ray Gaul. 31 Slides An overview of the Turkish retail landscape, the drivers and economic and consumer shifts shaping the environment and presenting both challenges and opportunities to retailers and suppliers throughout the market. Summary Slides Hard discounters in Russia: A trend or a fad? 11 Oct 2018 By: Vadim Khetsuriani. 25 Slides Explore the role of private label and exclusive brands versus national brands in hard discounters. Examine the different hard discount business models in place in Russia, and know how your category operates in each. Understand specific shopper trips that hard discounters capture. View All Webinar Presentations Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: A changing climate for category growth 25 Apr 2019, 11:00 AM EST With the release of Kantar Consulting’s annual category forecasts in April, the economic climate in the next decade will become the focus of the outlook. Gone is the chill of the post-recovery era. Soon to fade will be the warmer growth felt late in the 2010’s. Arriving in the 2020’s will be a different economic and demographic climate in which some categories will continue to flourish while others will see their growth curtailed. Expect to learn: ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Preparing for peak growth in 2019 13 Feb 2019, 11:00 AM EST Economic and policy trends lifted growth in 2018 to its strongest pace in seven years. While much of this momentum is expected to continue into 2019, some of these trends will change course by the end of the year. All of this will keep the consumer industry on its toes, both to run after growth opportunities and potentially sidestep slower growth late in the year. Tune in to this webinar to learn the macro trends, forecasts, and strategies you need to win 2019. As part of this discussion, ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Putting a spotlight on the (life)stage of shoppers 29 Nov 2018, 11:00 AM EST In the past, the age, generation, and lifestage of household shoppers may have been considered one and the same to suppliers and retailers—middle-aged boomers with children at home. Now, those three characteristics of household shoppers are quite distinct. For instance, the age at which households have children has change drastically from previous decades.Tune in to this webinar to learn the spending and shopping patterns of households as they move through a half dozen different lifestages. ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Holiday 2018 Forecast - Staying on course in the wake of macro disruption 22 Aug 2018, 11:00 AM EDT Many retailers this holiday will find themselves in an unfamiliar situation since the Great Recession made waves—trying to keep themselves sailing downwind, rather than just trying to plug the holes in their boat. Big box mass and select specialty retailers began to turn themselves around last holiday as shopper confidence gained strength. Tax policy changes and job gains will once again provide shoppers motivation this holiday, but retaining the loyalty of holiday shoppers will be ... Webinar US Home Improvement Webinar: Home improvement strategic checkup - Understanding the current retailer and shopper landscape to build future growth 2 Aug 2018, 01:00 PM EDT As the macro environment stabilizes in a post-recession economy, the home improvement channel has fared particularly well, with a continued positive outlook in future forecasts. Amid this period of growth, key home improvement retailers have been proactive in investing in initiatives that will drive future growth, rather than resting on the laurels of recent successes. Six months after announcing major changes to strategic initiatives, Home Depot’s investment of over $11 billion, aimed ... View All