Business & Economy: in this section we focus on key macroeconomic trends, developments in the world of business and the financial attitudes and behavior of consumers.
Data Snapshot
% of respondents who feel a lot of anger when thinking about their country today: Big business maximizes profit at the expense of community and consumers
Source: Global MONITOR 2012
Good business is doing good
Trend & Tonic
Our trends & culture blog
13 June 2013
Sometimes the right thing for a brand riles up the wrong people. That’s what happened with the Cheerios ad featuring a multi-racial family.
The Future Shopper
5 June 2013
Henry Tucker, Deputy Managing Director at The Futures Company and Steve Mader, Director of Digital Retail at Kantar Retail explore how changing shopper attitudes and technology are re-shaping retail.
WPP Atticus Awards 2012
5 June 2013
Our Future Perspective, ‘Unlocking new sources of growth: How to find new value in new places’, has just won the WPP Atticus Grand Prix Award for original thinking
Top 50 global brands
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Our trends & culture blog
14 May 2013
Kantar Worldpanel recently released their 2013 Brand Footprint report.
“Chicas Bondi”: Argentine everyday beauty
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Our trends & culture blog
23 April 2013
“Chicas Bondi” is a photographic project fed by Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, which has recently generated national coverage and controversy in the media.
US economic snapshot: March 2013
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Our trends & culture blog
11 March 2013
February saw the net addition of 236,000 new jobs (10,000 public sector jobs lost, 246,000 private sector jobs gained), bringing the unemployment rate down to a 4-year low of 7.7%.
You're invited to a Trends Party
US MONITOR LIVE
7 Signals from the edge to watch in 2013
26 February 2013
Trend & Tonic contributors invite you to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Trend & Tonic as they walk us through the now and next of all seven trends at this Futures Company house party.