Behaviours

Everything you need to face your future consumer with confidence, including the latest ethnographic research, generational insight, consumer-related stats and overarching human needs.

Sacred Sojourns

Religious tourism is booming as a new generation of travellers seeks spiritual meaning, cultural rituals and connection across sacred destinations worldwide.

Markets

The Bromeopathy Market

Bromeopathy is entering the mainstream as the wellness industry caters for a new wave of men seeking science-backed products and supplements to fuel their masculinity. 

Big Ideas

SXSW 2025: Reclamation Versus Resistance

SXSW 2025 marked a radical shift from resistance to reclamation, as industry leaders build agency in a challenging democracy, create decentralised media platforms and focus on a shared humanity.

Markets

Gen Z in Indonesia

With millions of young, tech-savvy and entrepreneurial Indonesians reshaping culture, business and faith, Gen Z is a force no brand can afford to ignore.

Markets

The Sexuwellness Men’s Market

Meet the innovators rebranding men’s sexual wellness as a pillar of male pleasure and wellbeing.

Markets

Restaurant Tech

Savvy restaurateurs are waking up to wider advances in technology and are harnessing IT to deliver better dining experiences.The restaurant indus...

Restaurants : Technology : Grillshack

Big Ideas

Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan 2014 Preview

The global design calendar’s main event, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is set to descend on Milan for the show’s 53rd year. The city becomes ...

Milan : Milan Salone : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile

Big Ideas

Major fragrance exhibition lands at Abu Dhabi airport

DFS Group, the luxury travel retailer owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, will present the Masters of Fragrance showcase at Abu Dhabi Intern...

LVMH : Duty Free : Abu Dhabi

Big Ideas

African mobile payment system branches out into Europe

Vodafone is rolling out its popular mobile payment system M-Pesa in Europe for the first time.

NEAs : Vodafone : M-Pesa

Big Ideas

App finds the perfect fit for women’s bras

US – Start-up company ThirdLove aims to make shopping for a bra a seamless experience.

3D Body Scanning : Athena : Women

Big Ideas

People feel emotional attachment to brands in times of fear

US – Consumers are more emotionally attached to brands that are present during moments of fear, according to a forthcoming study to be published in...

Scare Marketing : Marketing : Advertising

Big Ideas

4D cinema technology set for premiere in US

Wind, scent and rain will be part of the programme at a Los Angeles cinema this summer.

Los Angeles : Cinemas : 4D

Markets

Shock of the New Chic: Dealing with New Complexity in the Business of Luxury

The world’s consumers are in love with luxury, spending $1.8 trillion (€1.3 trillion, £1.1 trillion) in 2013 on luxury goods and services. Yet th...

Boston Consulting Group : Ipsos : China

Big Ideas

NASA invites the public to vote on new space suit design

NASA is developing a new space suit prototype and has asked the public to vote on the external design.

NASA : Science : Space

Markets

New categories in beauty

The beauty industry doesn’t do recession. Sales remain buoyant and the industry is continuing on the front foot, developing ever more clever prod...

Product Categories : Hair Fragrance : Cleansing Waters

Big Ideas

Travel website arranges meetings with the locals

My Plus One brings together travellers and locals for a small fee.

Plus One Berlin : Clare Freeman : Home From Home Hospitality

Big Ideas

Retail Week Live 2014: Part 2

Multi-channel is dead. Omni-channel is done. Welcome to the new fusion of physical and digital retail: phy-gital. We have been using this portmante...

Omni-channel : Multi-channel : Phy-gital

Big Ideas

Facebook to acquire Oculus Rift maker in $2bn deal

Facebook has announced it will acquire the virtual reality hardware start-up.

Facebook : Oculus Rift : Virtual Reality

Big Ideas

Almost half of young European adults live with their parents

An EU study shows the scale of the phenomenon in Europe.

Millennials : UK : Recession

Markets

Polarity Paradox Retail

From 5:2 diets and splurging and saving to bingeing on box sets before embarking on a digital detox, consumers are making sense of their lives by...

Binge Culture : Diets : Dystopia

Big Ideas

Retail Analysis: Zorlu Centre, Istanbul

Istanbul – A new futuristic development in Turkey’s largest metropolis puts shopping, housing, culture and parks at the heart of the ancient city.

Istanbul : Shopping Centre : Zorlu Centre

Big Ideas

Young men and women see technology in different ways

Young men prioritise quality whereas young women prioritise price, according to new research.

Millennials : Gender

Big Ideas

Luxottica and Google join forces on Glass eyewear

The Italian eyewear maker will design and distribute Google Glass.

The Convergence Economy : Google Glass : Luxottica

Big Ideas

Delta brings together entrepreneurs and mentors

US – Delta Air Lines has picked up on the craze for thought leadership with its Delta Innovation Class. The programme offers young hopefuls the ...

Delta Airlines : LinkedIn : TED2014

Big Ideas

Birchbox embraces Total Retail with New York store

US – Birchbox, the online beauty box subscription service, will open its first store in New York this spring.

Birchbox : Total Retail : Small Box Retail