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Store of the Future 2030

Our vision of the store of the future provides an operational and progressive framework to inspire the industry to start the journey to create the store of 2030.

Global grocery markets growth 2023 - 2028

In this presentation we look at the regional and country forecasts for grocery retailing to 2028.

Walmart bets big on the future of physical retail

We recently visited two of the retailers' flagship Supercentres and in this report we explore the ways that Walmart is reviving the format and making its stores destinations where customers want to spend their time.

UK Country Presentation

A guide to the UK's grocery market and how we expect the country, its leading retailers and channels to evolve over the next five years.

Brands vs private label: driving the return to growth in 2024 and beyond

This report explores the areas retailers are looking to brands for support in growing sales in 2024.

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A year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, thrusting generative AI into the mainstream. Over the last 12 months the technology has continued to evolve. It has been integrated into more business tools, other companies have launched their own generative AI applications and developers now can develop their own GPTs and usher in a new wave of creativity. We look at some of the ways it’s been applied in our industry to date.

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Ok, I must admit I have had my tree up for two weeks already, I am Christmas fan and today I got to open my first advent calendar window. Here at IGD we share our thoughts on the tradition of advent calendars, how it has evolved and what our employees gave and received. Advent calendars – stepped in religious history dating back to the 19 th century – Charl Baird, Insight Manager It is b...
Tesco has installed its 1,800 th in-store digital screen, a significant increase from the 400 screens it had in place in March this year. As first reported by The Grocer, the network of screens covers 420 of Tesco’s stores, making it the largest in the UK grocery market. The news comes after Sainsbury’s announced its plans for an 800-screen network last month. Tesco’s Chief Commercial Of...
Asda’s expansion into the convenience channel shows no signs of slowing down. Following the recent opening of its 100 th Asda Express store the retailer has announced plans to treble its convenience store presence in London by the end of March. Since its first London Asda Express opened in December 2022 , the retailer has brought the number up to eight stores. This will rapidly expand i...

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As global inflation has started to ease, we have reforecast our growth expectations for global, regional and country channels to 2028 This report shares the European view of our channel forecasts to 2028, combining data from 21 major markets across the region. It provides data by market on different channels’ performance and summarises the key insights and implications for suppliers.
As global inflation has started to ease, we have reforecast our growth expectations for global, regional and country channels to 2028 This report shares the global view of our channel forecasts to 2028, combining data from 42 major markets across all regions. It provides data on different channels’ performance and highlights which regions and markets lead the way in terms of channel development.
A guide to the UK's grocery market and how we expect the country, its leading retailers and channels to evolve over the next five years.
Our vision of the store of the future provides an operational and progressive framework to inspire the industry to start the journey to create the store of 2030.
Global retail trends 2023

We highlight six trends we expect to shape the global retail market over the next 12 months and beyond. 

Latest innovations

We are spotting thousands of innovations from the food and CPG industry each year from around the world. To help businesses stay up-to-date we present the ones to watch. See all our innovation case studies in our innovation tracker.

Industry-leading research and supporting webcasts

Explore our series of webcasts keeping you up to date with insights across retail, shopper and supply chain.

Four forces of change

To survive and indeed thrive, businesses need to know and understand these four forces and assess the potential impacts and opportunities for their business, and then apply this thinking to their future plans and strategies.

5-year forecasts to 2028

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Gain a view of what future growth to expect and start building your long-term strategy with our retailer and market forecasts to 2028.

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