This week we look at the trading performance of retailers over a very challenging Christmas period, and the trends that emerged.
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Is converting vacant retail property to residential housing the answer for town centres?
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We look at who has benefited from the `hometainment’ trend, and whether it is here to stay.
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As we've had to spend so much time at home recently, people are spending money on improving their living spaces.
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The long term impact of coronavirus on retailing has yet to be determined, but as we come out of lockdown, we take a look at five important trends that have already emerged.
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The countries which relaxed lockdown first offer an interesting insight into how physical retail and hospitality might recover elsewhere.
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What might be the first things people want to buy when lockdown eases? We see three retail sectors that will benefit the most, in the short-term.
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More and more retailers are selling wellbeing homewares, whilst also addressing the global sustainability call with environmentally friendly materials .... and it's working.
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Currently, 25% of UK households use Smart home technology, compared to over 30% for the US and Scandinavia. UK penetration, however, is expected to increase to c.45% by 2024, when 12.6m households in the UK are forecast to be Smart
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The demand for flexible and affordable living space has created a new shared living concept: Co-living.
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Among the many headlines about a slowdown in retail sales, we shouldn't lose sight that household goods was the only retail sector that did not see a decline in sales in the last three months of 2019.
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There is a growing trend of homeware and furnishing brands investing in hotels and hospitality businesses.
Gardening is enjoying a resurgence in the UK. Worth £4.6bn in 2018, up 5% from 2017, this market is forecast to increase by 14% to 2022. Gardening is enjoying a resurgence in the UK.
The laundry and surface care sector is a sizeable market with interesting opportunities.
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The emergence of the furniture rental market, worth an estimated $742m in the US market alone last year, can be attributed as much to modern-day economic necessity as to shifting consumer attitudes.
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Recently there has been a proliferation of fast fashion retailers launching homewares ranges through private labels.
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Single-product brands selling direct to consumers (D2C) is not a new phenomenon in the home and furniture market. But is it a sustainable business model?
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