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Consumer Goods and Retail

World Industry Outlook; September 2012

EIU, 2012


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s overview of trends in global consumer goods and retail markets through 2017 offers worthy analysis and information. It’s a road map that identifies the best destinations to steer toward, as well as the trenches and dead ends to avoid. getAbstract recommends this statistics-heavy article to all manufacturers, retail professionals and investors seeking a route ahead in a still-uncertain world.

Take-Aways

  • By 2017, emerging economies, including China, India and Russia, will dominate global retail growth.
  • China’s annual retail sales will be worth approximately 50% more – “in dollar terms” – than US sales.
  • Food producers must balance competing on pricing against the rise in commodity prices, which will squeeze margins.

About the Author

The Economist Intelligence Unit is an independent research and analysis unit of the Economist Group.


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