Japan's self-storage industry has been growing with all the favourable conditions – a high percentage of middle class population, shoebox-size living spaces, a high population density and an active culture of consumerism.
Thailand is expected to retain its position as the main automotive production hub within ASEAN with export production will see continued modest growth at 3%.
The confluence of economic growth, rising middle class, and upcoming ASEAN Economic Community have drawn many international players to the potential of frontier markets.
Over the past 3 years, medical device companies in Thailand performed well from both revenue and net profit perspective. Thailand is expecting to be the leader of Healthcare and medical device market in ASEAN.
This 33-country survey highlights what we get wrong and why we are so often wrong about topics such as immigration, teenage pregnancy and how to change that.
Stability or stagnation? As we enter the final stretch of the year, all three economic assessment categories remain static—demonstrating no change over the last month in the global national (39%), local (24%) or future local (30%) economy assessments.
Consumers and shoppers are purposeful and will more likely act consistently with their underlying preferences and motivations. This is what makes consumers neatly or broadly rational. Rationality does not assume consumers are conscious of their preferences, motives and decision processes. Consumers operating under System 1 may not always make the most consistent choices but that doesn’t make them in essence irrational consumers.
