The Million Dollar Fine
If you’re a woman in North America, the OECD estimates that you make $10,000 less than your male counterparts each year, and you’re charged between $1,300 and $2,135 more for products and services. It’s a gender fine that adds up to about half a million dollars over your lifetime—and...
The Database: Can Corporate Citizenship Be Good for Communities and the Bottom Line?
This episode explores how brands are incorporating corporate social responsibility into their daily business practices, how they’re engaging their employees to amplify their impact and retain talent, and how social good can be good for communities and the bottom line.
The Database: The Business of Sustainability
By 2021, we expect sustainably minded shoppers in the U.S. to spend up to $150 billion on sustainable consumer packaged goods. But while we’ve been tracking sustainable intentions and spending trends for some time, we wanted to explore the broader impact of this behavior – what it means for...
Webinar: Changing Consumer Prosperity
In this webinar, we explore the regions where consumers have experienced the biggest improvement in their financial situations since 2016. We also discuss consumers’ changing spending behavior on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) categories over the past five years.
Changing Consumer Prosperity
The Nielsen Changing Consumer Prosperity report reveals consumers’ sentiment toward their financial situations and explores the behavior and impact on spending, and how this has changed over time.
Webinar: Nielsen and the UN’s Global Big Data Platform
Nielsen has been supporting the UN’s special task team on scanner data, which is working to identify new trusted data and develop methods so that national statistics offices (NSOs) around the world can improve calculation of consumer price indices, an important economic measure.
With Consumer Confidence Up Last Year, 2018 Shows Promise for Global Product Companies
2017 was a good year for global consumers, with consumer confidence ending the year at a near-record level. Notably, 51 markets finished the year with higher confidence than they did in 2016, and the gains were bigger than 2 points in 46 markets.
Modern Day Women: The Powerhouse That Invests, Engages and Influences
What if you could easily reach a dynamic audience that is influential, educated, entrepreneurial and committed to the continued growth of society? Increasingly, that driving force is women, a rumbling economic powerhouse.
Identifying Pockets of Opportunity Around the Globe
Backed by improving global consumer confidence, many regions are seeing improved conditions for businesses and the fast-moving consumer goods industry. Here, we’ll look at trends in a few select countries.
Where Are Consumers Spending and Saving Around the World?
Consumers globally were more confident in the second quarter of 2017 than at the end of 2016, but concerns remain. So where are consumers spending any extra cash and cutting back on expenses?