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Returning to Trend-Spotting at kbb Birmingham 2022
16th March 2022

As the first big industry trade show since lockdown two years ago, kbb Birmingham is an influential event in the industry calendar. So much has changed in our lives [...]

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Has Covid really changed anything?
10th March 2022

This article was originally published in the kbb Birmingham Special Show Edition March 2022 Has Covid changed people’s lives in the long-term or has it simply accelerated changes that [...]

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Podcast: kbbreview The 2022 Top Ten Consumer Priorities, February 2022
24th February 2022

Trend-Monitor director Jane Blakeborough discusses the new consumer priorities for their homes in 2022 with kbbreview podcast host Andy Davies. Jane talks about the reasoning and methodology behind the [...]

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Podcast: The Quiet Mark Podcast Episode 36, January 2022
8th February 2022

Trend-Monitor director Jane Blakeborough chats with Simon Gosling CMO of Quiet Mark about the latest Trend-Monitor report [...]

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JKMR Overview Report on the UK Fitted Kitchen Market 2021 Edition
4th January 2022

JKMR’s UK Fitted Kitchen Overview Report is used by major players in all sectors of the kitchen market, as well as global investment companies. It is the most comprehensive [...]

Top Ten Priorities for our Homes in 2022

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The Top Ten Priorities For Our Homes In 2022
4th January 2022

Trend-Monitor report looking at the impact of Covid-19 on our behaviours and highlights how this has driven the new priorities we have for our homes. [...]

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Mapping out the future for your brand
25th November 2021

How to map out the specific trends having the biggest impact on your target market, and ultimately your business. [...]

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Industry Talk: Der Kreis KBBG Annual Members Meeting, October 2021
2nd November 2021

Changing Consumer Spending; how the last 18 months has impacted on consumer spending and how will this continue For the first live Trend-Monitor industry talk since lockdown, it was [...]

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WRAP Food Trends and KPI Survey 2021
6th September 2021

The Food Trends & KPI survey is a bi-annual survey of UK households that gathers evidence on food waste attitudes, knowledge and behaviour. Running since 2007, it is the [...]

Build Back Better High Streets Government report July 21

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Build Back Better High Streets
15th August 2021

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government maps out government plans for revitalising the UK high streets so that they can ‘once again become the proud and prosperous [...]

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Geberit Trends Report 2021
26th July 2021

This extensive report by Geberit is ‘shining a spotlight on the must have interior trends’ Featuring commentary from design experts such as Michelle Ogundehim, Sophie Robinson, Busola Evans, Kate [...]

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Panel Discussion: Water Matters April 2021
20th April 2021

In April 2021, our Research Director Jane Blakeborough joined a panel of industry experts at the Water Matters Online Event, hosted by the Unified Water Label, to explore how [...]

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Aviva: How We Live 2020
1st April 2021

Insurance company, Aviva, examines the impact of Covid on a a number of different aspects of our lives. The report looks at how our attitudes and behaviours have changed [...]

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Home Design Trends 2021: A Trend-Monitor discussion with Siemens
30th March 2021

Home appliance giant Siemens spoke to our research director Jane Blakeborough about how the events of last year are shaping the way our households are looking in 2021 and [...]

Are you insights actionable

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Are you turning your business data into actionable insights?
24th March 2021

Actionable insights drive actions that lead to results. Market research, customer analytics or competitor intelligence are all ways of collecting information, but they are not insights and they are [...]

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4GenKi – The Multigenerational Kitchen
5th March 2021

In answer to the growing demand for multigenerational living spaces, The National Innovation Centre Ageing (NICA) has collaborated with kitchen designer Johnny Grey and Profession of Practice Peter Gore [...]

Big Data and how to use it

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Big Data and How to Use It
12th January 2021

Five ways your business will benefit from using Big Data [...]

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English Housing Survey 2019-2020
8th January 2021

The English Housing Survey (EHS) is a national survey of people’s housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England. It is one of the longest [...]

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The New Flexible Home
16th December 2020

The increasing requirement for our homes to be flexible and reflect our individual lifestyles is an emerging trend that Trend-Monitor has been tracking for some time now, And in [...]

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Life after lockdown – a ‘new normal’?
11th December 2020

Research by the ONS highlighting the lockdown behaviours that have not continued [...]

Global Wellness Trends 2021

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Wellness Trends for 2021
2nd December 2020

The Global Wellness Summit held in November this year brought together wellness experts to discuss how the pandemic is shaking up the “wellness concept” and what they predict will [...]

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The New Sustainable Home
25th November 2020

There is a growing interest in products, innovations and apps that make it easy for households to save water and energy, cut down on food waste, recycle, replace single-use [...]

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GB Retail and Leisure Market Analysis H1 2020
17th November 2020

Retail insight comparing the lockdown period to other years [...]

Post Covid Households 2021 and beyond

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The Post-Covid Household in 2021 and Beyond
10th November 2020

Baffled by all the so-called ‘research’ that’s doing the rounds out there? We highlight the research you can trust when planning for 2021. The market research industry is in [...]

Post-Covid Trends: Healthy Homes

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The New Healthier Home
26th October 2020

Post-Covid Trend: Creating a healthier home [...]

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Home: A New Meaning
23rd October 2020

This report by Ring, the home security company, examines changing attitudes towards our homes and reveals that over half of Britons (53%) are viewing their homes in a more [...]

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JKMR Overview Report on the UK Fitted Kitchen Market 2020 Edition
21st October 2020

2021 EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE JKMR’s UK Fitted Kitchen Overview Report is used by major players in all sectors of the kitchen market, as well as global investment companies, [...]

Trend-Monitor Press Release

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Press Release: Trend-Monitor announces a new flexible, cost-effective Insight Management Service
20th October 2020

Specifically tailored to the UK home improvement sector, this new service is for forward-thinking business leaders who want to quickly start generating actionable insights from their available data to [...]

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ONS: Housing Supply Indicators
6th October 2020

The latest release from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on housing supply in England. Published on 30 September, the purpose of this release is to provide [...]

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Podcast: kbbreview Special – Supply and Demand
2nd October 2020

We joined a panel of industry commentators for a detailed look into the highs and lows of the lockdown period for the independent kitchen and bathroom retail market. [...]

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New Insight Resource: The Business Insight Hub
30th September 2020

The Trend-Monitor Business Insight Hub is a new insight resource which will point you in the right direction for free trackers and indices relating to economic conditions, business performance [...]

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12 Very Good Reasons To Use our Insight Management Service
28th September 2020

The new Trend-Monitor Insight Management Service is a systemized approach to generating the market and consumer insights you need to drive business strategy and innovation. This service is specifically [...]

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Ikea Life at Home: The Big Home Reboot
24th September 2020

The Ikea Big Home Reboot report looks at how our relationship with our homes has changed since lockdown [...]

Food and drink trends 2020

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Food Trends: Kindness, Compassion and Simplicity
16th September 2020

The latest food and drink trends report from supermarket Waitrose [...]

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You already have access to more data than you realise
9th September 2020

Nine types of data resources for market and consumer insight generation [...]

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Design trend: Biophilia and creating interior landscapes
9th September 2020

Biophilia, the trend for introducing plants into building design both at home and at work, has life-enhancing benefits From creating kitchens that open up onto the outside area, to [...]

becoming an insight-driven organisation

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Are you running an insight-driven organisation?
4th September 2020

The six steps you need to take in order to run an insight driven organisation [...]

Economic trend: housing market rebound

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Economic Trend: The post-lockdown housing market rebound
28th August 2020

The Zoopla House Price Index indicates that housing market activity is at it's strongest for 5 years [...]

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The Houzz Home Renovation UK Study 2020
21st August 2020

This survey by home renovation platform Houzz investigates UK home renovations carried out in 2019 and homeowners renovation plans for 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on Home ImprovementThe Houzz [...]

2020 Renovation Nation Report

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The 2020 Renovation Nation Report
19th August 2020

This report, by mortgage comparison site money.co.uk, investigates which areas of the home property owners have invested in since lockdown began. How much have UK homeowners invested since lockdown?The [...]

Marmot Report 10 Years on

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How Life Expectancy Has Stalled in the UK
15th July 2020

After 100 years of rising life expectancy, rates have slowed dramatically in the last decade – does this mean the end of a trend? Initially published in 2010, The [...]

Refill is the new recycle

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Consumer Trend: Refill is the New Recycle
6th July 2020

The new supermarket strategy for cutting plastic packaging is good news for kitchen designers as well as the environment As confusion regarding recycling continues, and doubts persist as to [...]

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Podcast: Post Covid-19 Consumer Confidence Survey
10th June 2020

We teamed up with Taylist Media to run a survey of consumers looking at whether they will continue with existing kitchen and bathroom projects after lockdown restrictions are lifted, [...]

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JKMR UK Luxury Kitchen Market Report 2020
2nd June 2020

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Post Covid-19 KBB consumer confidence survey

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Post Covid-19 K&B Consumer Confidence Survey
29th May 2020

For Part Two of our Five Part Plan to support the KBB industry during the Covid crisis, we partnered with Andrew Davies at Taylist Media to run a major [...]

Carbon negative

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How being Climate Positive means going Carbon Negative
28th May 2020

Turning carbon emissions into raw materials is proving to be a positive way for businesses to become carbon neutral and operate more sustainably. In January 2020 Microsoft announced that [...]

primary or secondary research

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When to use Primary and Secondary Research
7th May 2020

Market research can be split into two broad categories; primary research and secondary research. Secondary research simply involves collating and summarising existing research, while primary research consists of collecting [...]

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Urbanisation: Could the Pandemic Disrupt a Global Megatrend?
5th May 2020

As city centres become deserted and city dwellers head to the countryside, we look at the possibility that Covid-19 could reverse the global urbanisation megatrend in the long term. [...]

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Global Megatrend: Personalisation
1st May 2020

Personalisation is the tailoring of a service or product to accommodate an individual’s requirement, and is now widely regarded as a global megatrend In this video/webinar Jane Blakeborough, Research [...]

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Mini-Poll: Lockdown Concerns
30th April 2020

Our latest mini-poll finds that over a third of us are concerned about the amount of energy our kitchen appliances use. Lockdown restrictions over the past few weeks have [...]

Trends driving the global wellness market

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How The Wellness Trend is Evolving
27th April 2020

We look at some of the key takeaways for the home improvement industry from the annual Global Wellness Summit (GWS) The summit which took place in October 19 at [...]

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Research Case Study: Kastus Intelligent Surface Technology
24th April 2020

Kastus used the Trend-Monitor Omnibus Service to provide key statistics relating to their technology [...]

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The New Normal
17th April 2020

Preparing for the Post-Covid-19 World There is little doubt that we will look back and see the Covid-19 pandemic as a genuine driver for change, and the Post-Covid-19 world [...]

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Global Megatrend: The Ageing Population
14th April 2020

The world has an ageing population and here we look at what this global megatrend means for the UK According to the United Nations, every country in the world [...]

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Environmental Trend: 5 New Materials Made From Food Waste
9th April 2020

Removing waste from our systems takes us one step closer to a circular economy and sustainable future. When it comes to manufacturing goods, lessening our environmental impact involves looking [...]

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Mini-Poll: Working Remotely from Home
8th April 2020

Our latest mini-poll found that 31% of people working remotely from home have set up their laptops in their lounge. With so many people now working remotely from home, [...]

Trends driving the global wellness market

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The Future of Wellness 2020
27th March 2020

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) trends forecasting team predicts new directions in health and wellness. According to the GWS, no other forecast is based on the perspectives of so [...]

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Kitchen and Bathroom Trends Spotted at KBB Birmingham 2020
23rd March 2020

Eight key KBB trends spotted at KBB Birmingham previewing the products that will be making an appearance in kitchen and bathroom showrooms over the next year. KBB Birmingham, the [...]

economic trend: rise of middle aged renters

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Economic Trend: The Rise of the Middle-Aged Renter
15th March 2020

We’re used to hearing Millennials described as Generation Rent, but those aged 35 to 44 are now three-and-a-half times more likely to be renting than they were in 1993 [...]

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Design Trend: Broken Plan Living
10th March 2020

Broken-plan layouts offer solutions to the problems caused by an open-plan space, and the advantages of broken-plan living are bringing this trend to the mainstream The open-plan living trend [...]

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Retail Trend: Experiential Retailing
9th March 2020

Also know as known as retailtainment, experiential retailing is the merging of retail and entertainment to create experiences within the retail environment, thereby encouraging footfall to a bricks and [...]

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Trend-Monitor and JKMR combine expertise
25th February 2020

We continue our collaboration with JKMR to provide comprehensive market data for the K&B industry This collaborative partnership with research specialist JKMR enables us to provide an even more [...]

Surface trends from surface design 2020

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Surface Trends Spotted at Surface Design 2020
24th February 2020

Trend-Monitor highlights six important surface trends from this year’s Surface Design Show. This year more than 170 exhibitors showcased their surface and architectural lighting designs at the Surface Design [...]

design trend: maximalism

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Design Trend: Maximalism
20th February 2020

Image by Cerasa.it Maximalism is a design trend that has gained traction with consumers and gone from niche to mainstream. We look at why this is happening now The [...]

Tile trends from Cevisama 2020

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Tile Trends Spotted at Cevisama 2020
19th February 2020

Eight key tile trends spotted by Trend-Monitor at Cevisama 2020 giving a preview of the top tile trends that will emerge over the next year. Keen followers of international [...]

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Six Ways to Access Trend-Monitor Consumer Insights for FREE
12th February 2020

We love to share …. and not just because our trend analysis tells us we are living in a sharing economy. At Trend-Monitor we have gathered ALOT of primary [...]

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Wellness Trend: Indoor Microgreens
12th February 2020

Our desire to get both healthier and closer to nature is leading to a surge in home gardening with indoor microgreens coming top of the list. There were plenty [...]

family and household structure

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The Structure of Families and Households in the UK
10th February 2020

Updated based on 2019 figures from the Office for National Statistics Figures released by the ONS shows the structure of UK families and households is continually changing shape and [...]

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AR and VR – the technology revolutionising KBB retail
7th February 2020

According to a new impact assessment by PwC economists, VR and AR are forecast to add £62.5 billion to the UK economy, a 2.4% boost to GDP, by 2030. [...]

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Ageing, Fast and Slow: Where Place and Demography Collide
6th February 2020

The goal of this report by the Resolution Foundation is to describe differences in ageing by geography, with some places getting older and some getting younger; to understand the [...]

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Demographic Trend: Diverging Age-Groups Across the UK
6th February 2020

Looking at demographic change from a local perspective differs greatly from the national picture, as some parts of the UK are ageing faster than others We’re all living longer. [...]

Global megatrend - Urbanisation

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Global Megatrend: Urbanisation
3rd February 2020

The rapid rise in the number of people living in urban areas is shaping how we live now and in the future The urban population of the world has [...]

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Economic Trend: Britain’s multiple property wealth is on the rise
28th January 2020

The number of people owning more than one house is booming – so what does that mean for Generation Rent? We often talk about Generation Rent, and the problems [...]

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Game of Homes: The rise of multiple property ownership in Great Britain
27th January 2020

Additional property wealth is a big deal in Britain today. One-in-nine adults own some, and its combined value is almost £1 trillion. By value, it makes up one-sixth of [...]

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Five ways kitchens will become carbon-neutral in the future
27th January 2020

As consumers become more aware of the effects of climate change, they will increasingly adopt a more sustainable approach to their home life. Here we look at five areas [...]

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Podcast: How People Really Use Their Kitchens and Bathrooms
23rd January 2020

This week, we are delighted that our consumer insight research is being discussed on the Kitchen & Bathroom Design Podcast. The weekly podcast is hosted by the team at [...]

RIBA Home for the ages report

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RIBA Report: A Home for the Ages
21st January 2020

This report addresses our rapidly ageing society, highlighting the fact that within five years the over 60’s will take up over 25% of the English population and despite this, [...]

Riba Age-Friendly report

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Embracing Ageless Design
21st January 2020

A recent report by RIBA highlights the need for ageless design and homes that are accessible to all ages According to a recent report from the Royal Institute of [...]

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English Housing Survey 2018-2019 (updated)
17th January 2020

The English Housing Survey (EHS) is a national survey of people’s housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England. It is one of the longest [...]

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Social Trend: Single Serve – Catering for Those Living Alone
15th January 2020

As the number of single-person households rises, more products are being developed for this growing cohort. The number of one-person households in the UK increased by 16% between 1997 [...]

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Food Trend: How Eating Got Complicated
8th January 2020

The trend for following different diets is a booming industry that has implications for the KBB market “Do you have any dietary requirements?” is the question that always gets [...]

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Influencer Interview: Justyna Korczynska, Colour Consultant for Crown Paints
2nd January 2020

We talk to colour consultant for Crown Paints, Justyna Korczynska, and discuss how social trends and global events influence the brand’s new colour launches Interview by Emma Hedges TM: [...]

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Consumer Trend: Eco-shaming
20th December 2019

The climate emergency has triggered a new response to double standards when it comes to making damaging lifestyle choices and ‘Eco-Shaming’ is the way consumers are highlighting environmental hypocrisy [...]

JKMR MDA market report 2019

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JKMR UK Integrated Major Domestic Appliance (MDA) Market Report 2019
15th December 2019

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Fresh Air as a Luxury
13th December 2019

The more consumers learn about the impact of poor air quality on their health, the more alarmed they become. Stats from the European Heart Journal this year revealed that [...]

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Pinterest 100 Trend Report
12th December 2019

This week, the social media platform Pinterest released their Pinterest 100 report which highlights the top 100 emerging trends as indicated by the platform users Pinterest consider an idea [...]

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Pantone Colour of the Year 2020
5th December 2019

Pantone has announced 19-4052 Classic Blue as the colour of the year for 2020 Described as ‘instilling calm, confidence and connection‘, Classic Blue was chosen because it highlights ‘desire [...]

Sleep and Eat 2019

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Seven Design Trends Spotted at Sleep + Eat 2019
30th November 2019

Trends gathering pace in the hospitality sector often transfer over to interior design and for this reason Sleep+Eat is always an important and interesting event for Trend-Monitor to cover. [...]

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Consumer Trend: Slow Living, The Backlash Against Speed
26th November 2019

‘Slow living’ is a new consumer trend that holds benefits for the planet as well as our own mental wellbeing Time has become an increasingly valuable commodity. More and [...]

The nomad generation, a product of several global trends

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The Nomad Generation
22nd November 2019

The Nomad Generation is a product of several global trends We’ve all talked a lot about Generation Rent and sympathised with the plight of Millennials who have found themselves [...]

Dark Kitchens and their impact on kitchen design

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‘Dark’ Kitchens and their impact on kitchen design
18th November 2019

As increasing numbers of us turn to our phone apps to order food in instead of cooking a meal, how much will ‘dark’ kitchens impact on way domestic kitchens [...]

rising trend for young adults to live with parents

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Demographic Trend: More young adults are living with their parents than ever before.
11th November 2019

Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the rising trend for young adults living at home with their parents. Over one in four people aged [...]

Jayne Barber Interview

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Influencer Interview: Jayne Barber, Founder-Director of JKMR
4th November 2019

In this interview with the kitchen industry’s best kept secret, Jayne Barber, we draw on Jayne’s 30 years of experience researching the UK kitchen market to find out about [...]

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Demographic Trend: Falling UK Birth Rates
1st November 2019

The UK birth rate has fallen dramatically – why does this matter? [...]

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John Lewis Report ‘How we shop, live and look’ 2019
21st October 2019

This annual report by John Lewis & Partners looks back on the past 12 months and what shaped the year that has been. The UK waged war on plastic [...]

john lewis retail report 2019

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John Lewis Retail Report 2019 proves Trend-Monitor is spot on
21st October 2019

The John Lewis Retail Report for 2019 highlights five trends that we have already predicted will have an impact on consumer purchasing behaviour Regular readers of Trend-Monitor’s updates will [...]

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Influencer Interview: Chaline Church – FreeSpace Design
16th October 2019

In this interview with Chaline Church, interiors architect and founder of FreeSpace Design, we discuss the ‘Cradle-to-Cradle’ design framework and why our homes will become increasingly healthy in the [...]

Urban Village Project

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The Urban Village Project
8th October 2019

A vision of how we will live in the future The Urban Village Project is a concept for living from Ikea’s Space 10 and Effekt Architects which looks at [...]

Retail Trend: Drones and Robots

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Retail Trend: Robots and Drones
7th October 2019

Robots and drones have now officially joined the workforce with Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Essex reportedly having several thousand two-wheeled drones moving products around the warehouse. US retail giant [...]

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Five Bathroom Design Trends from Cersaie 2019
6th October 2019

Running between 23-27 September 2019, this year’s Cersaie in Bologna recorded a total of 112,340 visitors from all over the world despite the challenges currently facing international markets.  The [...]