Sales of home organization products in the U.S. were on a tear until the recession and housing crash ground growth to a halt. In fact sales declined in 2008 and 2009 before beginning a r ecovery that continued through 2014. In the report Home Organization in the U.S.: General Purpose, Closets, Garages, and Storage Sheds, 3rd Edition , Packaged Facts estimates that U.S. manufacturer’s sales of home organization products reached $8.5 billion in 2014. The market grew at a compound annual growth rat...
January 5, 2015Nearly a third (31%) of U.S. adult have gardened in the last 12 months. Gardening has fallen off slightly since 2005, with participation rates dropping by a couple of percentage points. Despite this longer-term slight decline, the percentage of people gardening held firm during the recession--as way to reduce stress, grow food, gain more sense of control over one’s life, or simply because consumers were at home more or more practical-minded in their leisure spending. Gardeners tend to be 35 an...
October 8, 2013