Blogs
Wal-Mart says consumers under "more pressure"
The major retail groups are excellent indicators of future trends in chemical consumption. Since before the Crisis began, consumers have been focusing more on price and value-for money.
European consumers focus on people, not things (Chemicals & The Economy)
As promised, the blog is today looking at a key European consumer trend, as part of its Budget Outlook week. 70% of chemical sales are consumer-related, so changes in these trends are very important. Earlier this month, it shared a...
Baby-Boomers cut spending, start saving (Chemicals & The Economy)
Consumer spending is 70% of US GDP. And because US GDP is so large, this means the US consumer is 17% of global GDP. This is the same as the combined GDP of China and Japan, who rank 2 and...
Chemicals: The backbone of green cleaning
As the blog mentioned in the past, there's no doubt that the green trend is very much prevalent within the cleaning chemicals market although they prefer to call it more as sustainability. Within my first day at the Soap and...
EU consumers worry about the economic outlook (Chemicals & The Economy)
European consumers remain very wary about the future. The slide above, from the monthly CEFIC report, shows that fear of unemployment is THE major concern. Almost half the population, a net balance of 44.3%, worried about this in December (yellow...
The new frugal and greener consumer (Asian Chemical Connections)
Trendspotting, green conscience, eco-buying, recycling, environmental footprint, cost saving, greed-guilt
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