As retailers continue to push the start of the holiday season earlier and earlier, consumers tell NPD they don’t anticipate starting their shopping until later and later.
October 2007 Issue 56
NEW FROM NPD
- Accessories Tracking Services
- Plus-Sized Children's Apparel: Insights and Opportunities
- High Definition Video Player Report Series
- Market Level Information
- Kids & Gaming
- Juvenile Products: Exploring the Booming Baby Business
- The Connected Home
Theater Report - Men's & Women's Swimwear Exposed Report
- MealScape Lunch Study
- Targeted Investment Research
- Clubs & Mass: Are Tech Consumers Changing Channels?
Insights Mission
NPD Insights® is a newsletter of The NPD Group, Inc. NPD Insights presents vital information on key market trends and features the NPD services, which help our clients understand, anticipate and capitalize on these trends to build their businesses.
CLIENT CLOSE-UP
Since its inception in 1985 as a menswear line, the Tommy Hilfiger brand has focused on bringing a fresh perspective to traditional, all-American stylings. The company has grown from a single line of business to one that strives to meet the many needs of a customer following that includes children, teens, and adults from a wide range of backgrounds.
Consumer perspective
More than half of consumers polled say they will shop in discount stores for at least some of their holiday gifts this season. National chain stores and online shopping are also near the top of consumers’ planned purchase outlets, with nearly 40 percent of consumers intending to shop at each.
Industry news
Amount Of Time Kids Spend Playing Video Games Is On The RiseFrom toddlers to tweens to teens, more than one-third of kids in the United States are spending more time playing video games today than they did one year ago. This trend is particularly pronounced for online game play, according to Kids & Gaming, the most recent report from The NPD Group.
Click to Continue Reinventing Television: Make Way for Broadband Content in the Living Room
Entertainment Center
According to a new report from The NPD Group, the home theater is fast evolving from a closed system confined to limited programming feeds and store-bought discs to one that exploits broadband access, so consumers can store and play digital entertainment content. Click to Continue NPD Reports on Ethnicity and the Frequency of Beauty Product Usage
As the population of the U.S. becomes more and more ethnically diverse, women of different ethnic groups continue to change the face of beauty. According to The NPD Group’s Ethnic Consumer Beauty Report, not only are there differences in the types of beauty products used by women of color, but differences also exist in their frequency of use.
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LA Times