Featured reports from just-style’s research store this week include a look at jeans in Italy, the top five emerging apparel markets, and clothing accessories in Greece.
- Impulse buying and the digital world: How retail is adapting
Internet retailing growth has been driven by price and product range, but as store-based retailers learn to leverage their multichannel capabilities and smartphones blur the lines between in-store and online, e-tailers must raise their offer in order to compete. This report investigates how the online world can harness a key in-store sales driver, impulse buying, by adapting new technologies and reinventing old retail strategies.
- Jeans in Italy
Buoyant demand for super premium jeans within Italy and rising demand for Italy’s denim exports led to a high level of optimism among Italy’s jeans manufacturers during 2012, especially in light of the overall declines recorded in apparel. Women’s jeans recorded a less severe current value decline in 2012 than men’s jeans as both categories continued to suffer from the economic crisis. This report takes a look at the market.
- Thailand – Country report
This report contains detailed forecasts and analysis for Thailand, including trade and investment analysis, economic forecasts, political risk assessments and demographic trend analysis. It contains detailed economic data and forecasts, analysis of trade and investment opportunities and coverage of the key political issues facing the country.
- Apparel Retail – Top 5 emerging markets industry guide
The five emerging apparel retail industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: retail market size (value 2008-12, and forecast to 2017). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading retailers including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
- Global clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods specialists market size and forecast to 2017
This report provides detailed data on the size and development of retail sales of individual product types through clothing, footwear, accessories and luxury goods specialists globally. It provides a detailed and comprehensive quantitative analysis of the trends affecting market development through both historic and forecast data.
- Clothing accessories in Greece
With Greek consumers left with less money to spend and consumer confidence at very low levels, it comes as no surprise that accessories sales display negative growth both in value and volume terms. In 2012, sales decline by 14% to land at EUR218m. This is primarily the result of consumers having been forced to cut down spending on non-essential items; accessories ranking quite high on the list of nice to have, yet not essential, things. This report takes a look at the market.
- Middle East and North Africa – Region report
This report contains detailed forecasts and analysis for Middle East and North Africa, including trade and investment analysis, economic forecasts, political risk assessments and demographic trend analysis. It contains detailed economic data and forecasts, analysis of trade and investment opportunities and coverage of the key political issues facing the country.
- Tailoring apparel to a New Latin America
Over the next five years, apparel strategy in Latin America will be more important than anywhere else in the world. With Brazil hosting the World Cup and Olympics back-to-back, leading sportswear brands will need to be at the top of their game. At the same time, a new and aspirational middle class has fuelled big opportunities for fast fashion brands positioned at premium prices. How well leading players engage with the tastes and demands of Latin Americans will determine who comes out on top.