April’s edition features our Flair France report, a global study on gender equality, a report on Russian outbound travel trends and a paper examining purchase decisions from a behavioural science perspective.
The average global economic assessment of national economies surveyed in 28 countries is down one point this wave with 47% of global citizens rating their national economies as ‘good’.
Ownership of voice-activated speakers is now at 8% amongst GB adults. Ipsos Connect's Tech Tracker is a quarterly, GB nationally representative research survey which measures the emerging trends and developments in technology.
The alcoholic drinks industry, like many others, has experienced an interesting journey over the past few years. Regulatory changes and barriers, demographic shifts, changing consumer preferences, increased concern about health and technological evolutions are just some of the reasons why the market place has been disrupted.
Having described France as a time-bomb at the heart of Europe and a country frivolously denying reality, The Economist designated France as the country of the year in 2017. Perhaps Emmanuel Macron’s election has already changed the global outlook on the country.
The country is still heading in the wrong direction to 95% of Brazilians, repeating the result of previous months. In Brazil, this decline in confidence was fired off in January 2015 and stabilized at very high levels since then. It seems that this perception will only change with the economic recovery and reduction of uncertainties regarding the electoral scenario.
