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

Cortisol Control

Tackling stress is a major concern for the wellness community, with new research and innovations emerging to measure and lower cortisol, along with viral content promoting cortisol-focused solutions.

Big Ideas

Austerity, scandals and digital ubiquity chill UK consumers

Big Ideas

Pew study reveals shifts in teen social media use

Internet : Behaviour : Teenagers

Big Ideas

Sweden and Britain diverge on trust in government

Financial : Recession : Sweden

Big Ideas

Male and female attitudes to ageing revealed

Skin : Age : Older

Big Ideas

Males spark a menswear boom through online shopping

Shopping : Digital : Online

Big Ideas

Lego rental service helps parents save

Lego : Rental : Toys

Big Ideas

Clerkenwell Design Week: Top 10 products

Now in its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week’s momentum is increasing, with more brands and designers filling the festival’s imaginative locatio...

Design : Geo Luxe : Hauntology

Big Ideas

FT Business of Luxury Conference 2013 Preview

The champagne is chilling in Vienna as the great and the good of the luxury world prepare to descend on the Austrian city for the Financial Times’ ...

Luxury : Everyday Luxury : Mo‘t Hennessy

Big Ideas

Swedes more optimistic about economy than Brits or Americans

Internet : Smartphone : Online

Big Ideas

Alibaba acquisition to bolster m-commerce capabilities in China

Alibaba, the largest business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer commerce platform in China is adding to its mobile portfolio to bolster its m-co...

Alibaba : Mobile : Sina Weibo

Big Ideas

Forecasters are bullish on wearable technologies

Wearable Technology : Credit Suisse : Electronics

Big Ideas

Visitors flock to UK’s anti-ageing beauty fair

The font of eternal youth sprung up in London for two days in May with the Anti-Ageing Health and Beauty Show, the UK’s first.

Anti-ageing : Skincare : Youth

Big Ideas

Yahoo! acquires Tumblr in $1.1bn deal

Yahoo : Tumblr : Facebook

Big Ideas

New York heads WWD top 10 global retail hotspots

Zurich – New York has taken the number one spot in WWD’s Retail Market Study 2013, a report that looks at the 15 global retail hotspots by retail e...

Retail Estate : New York : Location Group

Big Ideas

Epson proceeds at full tilt on smart glasses

Wearable Technology : Epson : Smart Glasses

Big Ideas

Amazon pushes male beauty with new grooming area

Online retailer Amazon is continuing its drive into the prestige beauty market with an area on its site dedicated to male grooming.

Amazon : Grooming : Curated

Big Ideas

Frieze New York 2013

The hip contemporary show that cut its teeth in London hosted its second New York event this year. Collectors and art lovers converged on out-of-th...

New York : Jonathan Monk : Karl Haendel

Big Ideas

Net-A-Porter bets on demand for ultra-luxury

London – Leading luxury fashion e-tailer Net-A-Porter is to offer its most expensive item to date.

Net-A-Porter : Ultra Luxury : Dolce & Gabbanna

Big Ideas

Americans will pay more for goods made in US

Craft : Watched : Gallup

Big Ideas

Shanghai Motor Show 2013 Review

China overtook the US as the world’s largest vehicle market five years ago. In another five years it is set to become the biggest luxury car market...

Nissan : Mobiility : Motoring

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