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Hair Removal Market
The conversation on hair removal is changing, from the aesthetics of men’s shaving to the way people achieve their hairless look.
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Global Futures Forum: Meet our disruptors of 2017
We explore how six disruptors are challenging thinking in their fields and changing the future landscape through their work.
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Global Beauty Market 2016: Part 1
We examine the changing face of the global beauty market and the rapid rise of exciting new trends in the industry, from Social Power to Phygital S...
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Luxury Travel Futures Market – Trends
For experience-hungry luxury travellers, one-of-a-kind adventures are more important than prestigious products.
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Milan 2013 Preview
The biggest design event on the calendar is here again. Italy’s industrial centre will play host to a myriad of new trends and design directions as...
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The Great Wealth Transfer
Wealth ownership, distribution and the politics that influence cross-generational spending are all in flux, according to the latest findings of The...
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Chinese fashion brands to watch
Beijing – New Emerging Affluents in China shop at domestic fast fashion retailers with global aspirations alongside foreign brands that have expand...
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Emerging Youth: UAE
The UAE’s Gen Z are leading the nation’s evolution by redefining tradition to mirror their own values and vision.
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Sponsorship Futures
Current estimates show that despite recession and the ensuing collapse in advertising expenditure, worldwide spending on sponsorship and related ac...
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Redemptive Diets
Brands and consumers are uniting to build future-fit food systems that support changing social values, protect precious resources and secure supply...
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Arabian Travel Market 2025: Five Trends to Watch
Global travel preferences are undergoing a major transformation. From the UAE’s rise as a next-generation entertainment hub to offering more inclus...
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Futures 100
Futures 100 Innovators: February
In our second instalment of Futures 100 Innovators, we spotlight the people democratising Web3, giving voices to disabled youth and augmenting luxury.
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Delhi Revivalists
A creative mela, or festival, is taking off in New Delhi’s Hauz Khaz Village. Alternative designers, fashionistas and foodies are putting their own...
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AI Optimism Market
Pushing back on doom, dive into the AI boom’s potential to make consumers healthier, more productive and equal.
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Membership Retail
A wave of apparel brands are shunning mass selling in favour of membership models, in turn reducing product waste and cultivating stronger communit...
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Five Future Home Scenarios for 2050
As the climate crisis escalates, our population ages, and the way we live is reshaped by new technologies and materials, our homes will look very d...
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Asian Urban Farming Market
Concerns about food security, climate change and loss of livelihood are re-affirming urban farming as a model for sustainable living in Asia’s me...
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Chocolate Market
Despite climate change threatening supply chains, the chocolate sector is thriving, with product innovation fuelling regional flavours and free-fro...
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Modest Wear Market 2019
Beyond luxury apparel, fashion brands and retailers are winning over modern Muslim customers with new iterations of modest clothing.
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M-commerce goes bricks-and-mortar, interactive typography made for AR
Depop helps users grow their brand, Sensei prioritises nutrition over yield of crops, Nike creates a retail destination for women.
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Global Spirits Market
The landscape of the global spirits market reveals changing consumer tastes, highlighting the desire for more premium products and sophisti...
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Tech Market: Part 2
How are artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and virtual reality technologies reshaping consumer lives?
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AI Learning
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Shanghai Singles
Unmarried women in their late twenties or older are often derogatorily called sheng nu or ‘leftover women’ in Chinese society, implying that they’v...
The Girly Girl
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Dafang Chai
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The Multi-Tasker
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New Luxury Millennials: Update
New Luxury Millennials (NLMs), the well-heeled, high-spending branch of the collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial Millennials, are rapidly becom...
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Beauty Mavericks
The Beauty Mavericks have gone their own way, creating their own products and services to cater for their specific beauty needs.
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