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Retail Perspectives
Weekly intelligence briefings designed to deliver Kantar Retail’s timely analysis of breaking news and the latest developments in the retail industry. Members receive several Retail Perspectives each month focusing on a specific retail industry sector. Each week our analysts will explore two to three hot topics. Recent topics explored include: CE Manufacturers Getting Closer to Customers », The Tween Scene Heats Up » and Supermarkets Get Private ». For more information on Retail Perspectives, follow this link ».

Industry Outlooks
In-depth assessments and strategic insights on the outlook for key lines of trade where homegoods are distributed and sold. Detailed assessments cover industry size, growth and outlook; structural changes; performance; consumer-shopping behavior; new developments; and emerging trends and issues with a strategic perspective by Kantar Retail retail thought leaders.

  • Homegoods Program: 4 Industry Outlooks per year—Mass Channel, Consumer Electronics, Home Improvement, Home Furnishings

Shopper Updates
Findings from Kantar Retail's monthly online survey of 4,000 consumers. Reports analyze trends in shopping behavior, shopping frequency by retail format, purchase patterns for major categories by store type, shopper and fashion profiles, and store choice factors. Analysis, charts and strategic perspectives are provided by Kantar Retail thought leaders.

  • Homegoods Program: 4 Shopper Updates per year

Economic Forecast
This annual publication focuses on the outlook for the retail economy in the United States and provides a strategic perspective on the forces driving and threatening the outlook and gives five-year forecasts by line of trade and consumer spending category developed by Kantar Retail's senior retail economists.

  • Homegoods Program: Five-year forecasts for relevant lines of trade and durable homegoods categories.

To learn more about the benefits of becoming an Homegoods Program member contact Katherine Clarke, Vice President of Marketing at 614.355.4009 or katherine.clarke@kantarretail.com ».

 

 

Timely Analysis of Breaking News from
Retail Forward

Homegoods Retail Perspectives: Martha Stewart—Taking the Glue Gun to Merchandising, August 2010 »

Homegoods Retail Perspectives: Retailers Should Rev Up Occasion-Based Selling, July 2010 »

Softgoods Retail Perspectives:
No End to Mauling: Declines in Monthly Mall Shopping Incidence Persist, July 2010
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FDM Retail Perspectives:
Value Will Remain a Focus, July 2010
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Home Improvement Retail Perspectives: The Post-Modern Marketplace Evolves, August 2010 »

Company Performance, August 2010 »

A Moving Target, August 2010 »

Retail Update, August 2010 »

Walmart Fact Book *Update*, August
2010 »

Target Fact Book *Update*, August
2010 »

Retailing in Emergent Markets, August 2010 »

Home Improvement Shopper Update: The Home Depot and Lowe's—Shopper Showdown 2010, August 2010 »

Softgoods Shopper Update:
Shopping-Related Smartphone Usage Still in Infancy, August 2010
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Home Depot Fact Book *Update*, August 2010 »

Lowe's Fact Book *Update*, August 2010 »