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Published March 2012: This comprehensive, inspiring report reveals the size of, and opportunities in, the world’s packaging markets. It shows how to make sure your brand’s packaging promotes, protects, and proves what’s inside in the best way possible in the 2010s. Learn about the importance of portion control, pensioner packaging, and single-servings. Find out how Brazilians, Russians, Indians, and Chinese prefer their packaging. Keep up with the key emerging trends and design directions, such as Trackaging, Postal Packaging, and Transformer Packaging. And hear what industry experts such as brand director at Mulberry Georgia Fendley, former editor of Design Week Lynda Relph-Knight, and co-founder of design brand Seymourpowell Dick Powell think about the packaging tax, material costs, and the opportunity in sustainability. The report comprises Executive Summary: Market Overview: Emerging Markets: Emerging Trends: Design Directions: Innovate: Portfolio: Futures 100<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Packaging Futures Report: No 13 Further Details
Published December 2011: Offering optimism, excitement and inspiration amid the economic gloom, our Travel & Hospitality Futures report 2012 reveals how the BRICs millions will help travel and hospitality brands to defy the recessionary doomsayers. Learn about the profit potential of a SLIMMA future, the demands and desires of the Single Saris and Luxury Pilgrims, and the 24/7 Bleisure potential of the New Luxury Millennials. Global industry experts including Six Senses Resorts & Spas CEO Sonu Shivdasani and Travel & Leisure editor-in-chief Nancy Novogrod unpack dynamic emerging trends such as the Power of Place, Craftsmanship of Care and Digital Word of Mouth, and explain why experience is the new destination. The report comprises Executive Summary : Market Overview : Tribe – New Luxury Millennials : Tribe – Yama Girls : Innovate : Futures 100<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Travel & Hospitality Report: No 12 Further Details
Published September 2011: Covering tea, coffee, cocktails, beer, water, white and dark spirits - you're sure to be shaken and stirred by the information and inspiration in this Drinks Futures report. Through categories to watch such as ethical drinks and low-alcohol wines, to emerging trends such as Co-opetition and Gourmet Junk, design directions such as Scrawl Script, case studies such as All About Tea, and our typology and tribe reports, this is all you need to know about consumer thinking and drinking now and in the future. The report comprises: Executive Summary : Market Overview : New Markets Rising : Emerging Trends : New Drinks Consumers : Tribes : Case Studies : Design Directions : Futures 100<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Drinks Futures report No. 11 Further Details

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Published July 2011: If you work in the food sector, you have to have this report. Featuring in-depth consumer typology studies, reports on markets such as confectionery and functional foods, emerging trends such as Gourmet Junk, Revivalist Recipes and Dirty Dining, and insights on how consumers will be treating and eating food in the future, Food Futures 2011 will give you the essential insights and inspiration to connect with consumers today and tomorrow. The report comprises: Executive Summary : Market Overview : New Markets Rising : Emerging Trends : Restaurant Futures : New Food Consumer : DIY Foodies Tribe : Rurbanites Tribe : Case Studies : Design Directions : Futures 100<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Food Futures Report: No.10 Further Details
Published May 2011: New brands, new ingredients and new sectors to consider – it's all here, in our 122-page consumer insight and Beauty Futures report. Our analysts look at the extracts that matter, the science that counts and the hair, beauty and skincare discoveries that are set to make it big in 2012 and beyond.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Beauty Futures Report: No 9 Further Details
Published February 2011: From smartphones to superphones, from Check-in Culture to Utility Apps, this report analyses the rising markets, innovative brands and changing consumers across the technology landscape of tomorrow.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Technology Futures Report: No.8 Further Details

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Published January 2011: From LS:N Global's correspondents, in association with our consumer research division, Future Poll, we look at what is new, next and making waves in 8–18-year-old consumer culture.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Teen Futures Report: No 7 Further Details
Published November 2010: This report analyses the markets, brands and consumers in today's and tomorrow's luxury industry. Global case studies, typology studies, easy-to-use toolkits, in-depth market analyses and insight reports help readers to understand the luxury consumer landscape.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £850 ex vat. Luxury Futures Report: No 6 Further Details
Published June 2010: Charting the retail landscapes in the BRICs, Europe, the USA and the N-11, we report on what's new and next in E-commerce, M-commerce, the rise of social media shopping, the new convenience store, retail apps, and the new department store. Also featuring Beyond Retail, the report explores how exporiums, luxury vending, swap shops, untethered retail, and the growing use of abandoned spaces are revitalising retail after the downturn.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £550 ex vat. Retail Futures Report: No 5 Further Details

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Published May 2009: Climate change, fuel surcharges, global recession, political unrest, and an increasingly challenging, internet-savvy consumer are all turning traditional notions of how we rest, play and travel on their head.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Leisure and Hospitality Futures: No 4 Further Details
Published May 2008: Changing ethical tastes, upcoming EU legislation, the return of thrift and a new generation of synth-friendly consumers are kick-starting a revolution in how we create, market and consume food.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £550 ex vat. Food Futures Report: No 3 Further Details
Published November 2007: This report considers the new and emerging global trends set to impact on the luxury goods sector as markets fragment, and new definitions of luxury emerge.<br /><br />This report is now available to download for £450 ex vat. Luxury Futures Report: No 2 Further Details