Summary Slides U.S. eCommerce Outlook: Category Group Forecasts 19 Jun 2017 By: Doug Hermanson, Robin Sherk. 12 Slides This slide deck summarizes Kantar Retail’s U.S. online channel forecast and in-store versus online category spending forecasts to 2022. Summary Slides Home Improvement Forecasts and Outlook 25 Apr 2017 By: Doug Hermanson. 12 Slides Kantar Retail’s home improvement channel sales forecasts feature a breakout of sales in nominal and inflation-adjusted terms for the home centers, hardware stores, and other building specialty channels. Forecasts can be viewed in a summary slide or excel format. Summary Slides U.S. Channel Forecasts: Q2 Outlook 23 Mar 2017 By: Doug Hermanson. 11 Slides Curious what spring has in store? This channel forecast summary slide deck features forecasts for the second quarter. Data for all underlying channel forecasts—nominal, real, and price series—are available via a link on the webpage. Summary Slides Holiday 2016: Channel and Category Sales Results - Updated 22 Feb 2017 By: Doug Hermanson. 13 Slides This publication features updated government-reported holiday results for a dozen retail sales channels and ten categories which were initially published in January. It has been updated with actual results for some underlying channels and categories which were previously estimated by Kantar Retail. Summary Slides U.S. Macro Outlook: Demand in 2017 Dampened by Higher Gasoline Prices 10 Feb 2017 By: Doug Hermanson. 34 Slides This slide deck features Kantar Retail’s latest U.S. macro outlook for the 2017 sales season. The current and future macro landscape is painted through a key implications slide, and over two dozen slides featuring macro data graphics and forecasts. View All Event Presentations Summary Slides Essential Macro Insights for Retail Planning 25 May 2017 By: Doug Hermanson. 50 Slides This session will provide the critical macro insights needed to identify the challenges and opportunities for growth. Summary Slides Retail Implications From Macro Trends 9 Dec 2016 By: Doug Hermanson. 27 Slides This presentation will detail the key macro trends shaping the future of retail. Summary Slides Macro Planning Considerations for Canada 15 Sep 2016 By: Doug Hermanson. 29 Slides Canada’s retail environment has become more challenging amid varying global effects. As conditions remain volatile, Canadian suppliers will need to become more agile to capitalize on pockets of strong growth and cushion themselves from weakness in lagging markets and shopper segments. Summary Slides Finding the “Micro” in Macro Retail Trends 13 Jun 2016 By: Doug Hermanson. 46 Slides his class will present the key macro trends that will heavily influence the future retail marketplace and the key “micro” implications needed to evolve your operational and marketing strategies. Summary Slides Channel and Category Insights from Macro Trends 8 Jun 2015 By: Doug Hermanson, Frank Badillo. 73 Slides Leaders and laggards continue to emerge among the channels and categories that Kantar Retail tracks and forecasts based on macroeconomic sources. View All Webinar Presentations Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Category Insights 2022 - First Look at Kantar Retail's Updated Forecasts 10 May 2017, 11:00 AM EDT We are moving quickly to a post-recovery world which will still look relatively unfamiliar and daunting to suppliers and retailers. Escalating online penetration, renewed pockets of inflation, diverging spending confidence, and demographic shifts are among the many macro factors which will influence category spending in the coming years. Tune in to find out Kantar Retail's latest perspective on category growth, and how retailers and suppliers will need to adjust to succeed in this post-recovery ... Webinar US Home Improvement Webinar: The Connected Home Story and Macro Trends for 2017 9 Mar 2017, 01:00 PM EST "Stress-free" continues to be the shopping mantra of 2017. In the search for convenience and ease, shoppers are seeking out new and innovative ways to remove friction from their lives, and increasingly their homes. From smart thermostats to home security systems, connected home technology provides shoppers with new alternatives for home maintenance and stress-free living. With Kantar Retail's lead economist expecting positive macro tailwinds in 2017, The Home Depot and Lowe's will be frontrunners ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Calibrating for 2017 - Macro Predictions, Retail Considerations 2 Feb 2017, 11:00 AM EST The turn of the year is the most popular time to make resolutions to do better; the same is likely the case for those in the retail and supplier industry. Well, Kantar Retail is here to help. Tune into the first Emerging Macro Retail Trends webinar of the year to cement your understanding of the trends that defined the 2016 sales season, and more importantly how to adjust your strategies toward selling more in 2017. As part of this discussion, expect to learn: How the shifting macro ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Macro Realities for Low-to-Middle Income Shoppers: Mining for Retail Gold 17 Nov 2016, 11:00 AM EST The financial situation of low-to-middle income shoppers has improved relative to the years immediately following the great recession. Still, this segment presents a uniquely challenging sales opportunity for retailers and suppliers. They are tightly budgeted, but aspirational; they are large in numbers, but very diverse. These are among the many contrasts that differentiate them from their upper-income counterparts which tend to be more homogeneous. The emergence of limited assortment food ... Webinar Emerging Macro Retail Trends Webinar: Kantar Retail’s Holiday 2016 Forecast - Is Your Game Plan Aligned? 25 Aug 2016, 11:00 AM EDT Even though air conditioner units are still running on high, the winter holiday shopping season is already on the mind of many retailers and suppliers. Potentially higher sales during the season are certainly heightening this anticipation, but challenges may weigh on some minds as well. Many of these challenges, as well as opportunities, gain even more traction during the holiday. For instance, Amazon's growing portfolio of programs, Prime benefits, and products which are often launched ... 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