Summary Slides Global macro outlook 1 Jul 2019 By: Doug Hermanson. 17 Slides Global growth is slowing, altering the price and demand trends expected at global retailers. Find out in this summary slide deck the leading and lagging markets and the implications for retailers. Summary Slides Online Retail Country Profile: China 6 Jun 2019 By: Kelly Petropoulou. 13 Slides Learn how China's fast-evolving and future-focused online sector is developing as we use Kantar’s 2018 Digital CommerceScope data to explain where growth can be found for FMCG in one of the largest and digitally advanced retail environments worldwide. Summary Slides Online Retail Country Profile: Germany 6 Jun 2019 By: Harriet Leach. 13 Slides Using Kantar’s 2018 Digital CommerceScope data, this report details the growth areas within Germany's growing eCommerce space, detailing opportunities for category development and the best plays on which to focus in the emerging online sector. Summary Slides Russia: modern trade channels update - May 2019 30 May 2019 By: Vadim Khetsuriani. 16 Slides Stay up to date on the latest trends, forecasts and initiatives across this vast key market as consolidation and transformation continues to impact supplier strategy among key customers. 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. View All Event Presentations Summary Slides Macro trends shaping the future of Kroger 20 Jun 2019 By: Doug Hermanson. 50 Slides Understand the economic, demographic, and geographic trends influencing retail growth. Learn how Kroger shoppers are likely to react to economic disruptions in the upcoming decade. Identify growth opportunities at Kroger that will be shaped by the retail economy. Summary Slides Climate change: Macro planning for the next era of retail 23 May 2019 By: Doug Hermanson. 67 Slides Understand the hot, cold, and cooling macro trends in retail. Learn about the new era of retail that will emerge in the next couple of years due to drastic changes in the macro environment. Identify which shoppers, categories, and retailers will transition easiest to this new retail era. 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. 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