In 2025, the retail sector is transforming as industry giants consolidate power, discount-orientated retailers outperform the market amid economic uncertainty, and social media platforms are evolving into important retail players in their own right. Meanwhile, global sales growth is increasingly fuelled by emerging markets, especially in Asia Pacific, while China-affiliated e-commerce marketplace operators are capturing the attention and loyalty of consumers around the world.
The Top Five Trends in Retail global briefing offers an insight into the size and shape of the retailing industry, highlights emerging trends, their effects on retailing in markets around the world, on the development of channels and consumers’ shopping patterns. It identifies the leading companies and brands, offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they the developments of new store types, the importance of non-store retailing, economic/lifestyle influences, private label or pricing issues. Forecasts illustrate how the market is set to change and criteria for success.
Product coverage: Retail E-Commerce, Retail Offline.
Data coverage: Market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.
The Top Five Trends in Retail global briefing offers an insight into the size and shape of the retailing industry, highlights emerging trends, their effects on retailing in markets around the world, on the development of channels and consumers’ shopping patterns. It identifies the leading companies and brands, offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they the developments of new store types, the importance of non-store retailing, economic/lifestyle influences, private label or pricing issues. Forecasts illustrate how the market is set to change and criteria for success.
Product coverage: Retail E-Commerce, Retail Offline.
Data coverage: Market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.
Why buy this report?
- Get a detailed picture of the Retail market;
- Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
- Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands;
- Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The biggest get bigger
- Low prices, high growth
- Social shopification
- Social Shopification
- Retail rises in the east
- Chinese marketplaces expand abroad
- Conclusion