Fashion Futures 2017

From poor working practices to the painfully slow adoption of AI, the fashion industry is reaching a tipping point. Brands in the sector will increasingly need to look beyond its...Read more

Anti-pollution Futures 2017

With urban city centres increasingly enveloped in clouds of harmful smog, air pollution is a key concern for consumers around the world. In this new landscape, there is an urgent...Read more

The Future of Service 2017

Today’s always-on customers demand seamless service, but the gap between their expectations and retailers’ responses is widening. As interactions become faster and shallower, brand loyalty is increasingly hard-won. Our Future...Read more

Luxury Futures 2017

We explore the rise of the new normal in the global luxury landscape, identifying areas of growth and the potential challenges ahead. We consider the unexpected rise of ultra-high-net-worth individuals...Read more

Female Futures 2017

Female Futures is an in-depth look at the current landscape of female entrepreneurialism and highlights an emerging attitude driven by members of Generation Z, who are ditching a broken system...Read more

US Trend Briefing

As the rich get richer and ranks of the poor swell, there is unrest among the American population. In a divided and disconnected nation, the aspirations and behaviours of the...Read more

Beauty Futures 2017

We examine growth areas and emerging markets in the global beauty landscape. We consider how venture capital funding and interest from big brands have changed niche beauty start-ups, and look...Read more

The Age of Re-engagement

With increasingly distracted consumers, a breakdown in traditional systems of governance and the nuclear family relegated to history, the business landscape of the future is uncertain.  The Age of Re-engagement...Read more

Retail Futures

The world of retail stands on unsteady ground in 2017. The ramifications of geopolitical events such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as President of the US are...Read more

Luxury Futures

  Our presentation on the global luxury sector combines detailed market analysis with a timely reconceptualisation of the very notion of luxury. The decade we call the Turbulent Teens has...Read more

Innovators' Toolkit

Our Innovators’ Toolkit Presentation is a road map for those who see innovation, not as an end in itself but as a means to move ahead and escape the status...Read more

The Dislocated World

We live in a dislocated world, characterised by distrust, disconnection, disenfranchisement, disgust and disorder. Public trust in governments, the financial sector and brands is at an all-time low. Racial division,...Read more

New Consumer Summit

The digital-native members of Gen Viz are constantly connected – plugged into multiple browsers not to hide from reality, but to create it anew. Deeply averse to being marketed at,...Read more

Food and Drink Futures

Citizen consumers and producers, empowered by social media and the internet, are together leading a revolution to reset the global dining agenda. A more holistic view of food and drink,...Read more

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