A recent Packaged Facts report ("Affluent Consumers: Demographic Patterns and Spending Trends, 7th Edition", October 2017) reveals that an ongoing change in consumer values is a major part of the evolving mindset of upper-income consumers in an age of inequality
October 24, 2017The slowdown in healthcare cost inflation, often attributed to the 2007-2009 recession, has generated questions such as what caused it and whether it will last. Notably, as Figure 1 shows, the rate of healthcare inflation has dropped to historically low levels, suggesting structural factors could also be a major driver of the slowdown.
July 18, 2017While consumer credit card loans outstanding are on the rise, growth remains relatively subdued, especially in comparison to automobile and student loan growth rates, suggesting that consumers continue to approach card debt conservatively.
June 1, 2017Marketers and retailers have long recognized the exceptional role Hispanic consumers play in their growth strategies. Sheer numbers are one reason. Yet, Hispanics embody far more than just an extraordinarily fast-growing population segment of the American population. They now represent a market with outsize spending power that will only continue to grow in the future.
November 28, 2016Just in time for summer, Packaged Facts provides industry-leading market research on home-related consumer goods products in the report Lawn and Garden Equipment in the U.S. 11th Edition. Americans love to care for their lawns and gardens. But the economy and weather haven’t been very cooperative for marketers. Lawn and Garden Equipment in the U.S. 11th Edition details how L&G equipment sales peaked at the height of the housing boom in 2005, and have been declining and trying to recover since....
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