Reports

Market sector updates, forecasts, category futures – the reports, white papers and insights that our editors, analysts and researchers have developed to make your brand smarter and your business even more agile and future-facing.

Female Futures Report 2017

Help to prepare your business for the changes ahead by downloading the Female Futures Report 2017 now. Overview As we wrestle with the modern demons of our post-crash, post-truth world,...Read more

Luxury Futures Report 2017

The trends, consumer tribes and innovations shaping the future of luxury. Overview As the markers of luxury evolve to transcend the physical trappings of wealth, political and economic upheaval are...Read more

The American Middle Report

Packed with unique research, this report explores the key drivers and forces shaping the American Middle, and gives practical recommendations on how to implement its insights. : Overview The Future Laboratory...Read more

Beauty Futures Report 2017

The trends, consumer tribes and innovations shaping the future of beauty.   Overview In a radically re-aligned beauty landscape, established brands and innovator start-ups are finding new paths to success....Read more

Retail Futures Report 2017

A toolkit to build winning strategies from the endless possibilities of Total Retail   Overview As omni-channel retires, the era of Total Retail begins in earnest. Customers are demanding frictionless...Read more

Innovators' Toolkit Report 2016

Overview The Innovators' Toolkit Report draws on The Future Laboratory’s wealth of research and thinking, and the insights and observations of a string of global experts, to consider anew what...Read more

Luxury Futures Report 2016

Overview Our annual report on the global luxury sector combines detailed market analysis with a timely reconceptualisation of the very notion of luxury. The decade we call the Turbulent Teens...Read more

Food & Drink Futures Report 2016

 OverviewOur annual report on the global food and drink industry is your definitive guide to future-proofing your brand in this rapidly evolving sector.The report begins with an Insight Overview, which...Read more

New Consumer Summit Report 2016

Overview Our annual report on The New Consumer is your definitive guide to future-proofing your brand to meet the demands of the next generation. With today’s teenagers increasingly embracing authenticity...Read more

Youtube : Entertainment Futures

A new golden age of Fluid Entertainment will dawn as another 1.4bn people flood online in over the next decade, hungry for innovative new forms and formats of entertainment and...Read more

Sustainability Summit Report 2016

Our free Sustainability Summit Report redefines the term ‘sustainable’ for the modern age. Sustainable thinking is now a cornerstone of good business rather than a nice to have. The report...Read more

Beauty Futures Report 2016

Overview Our annual report on the global beauty industry is your definitive guide to future-proofing your brand in this rapidly evolving sector. As the beauty industry shifts towards a holistic...Read more

Placemaking Summit Report 2016

Placemaking Summit Report 2016 Our inaugural Placemaking Summit Report tackles the importance of physical space in the digital age, from revolutionary retail concepts to geo-branding and locally embedded businesses. Instead of...Read more