CES 2025: AI Takes Centre Stage, Shifting Focus Beyond the Hype
23 Jan 25It is impossible to review CES 2025, the annual tech extravaganza in Las Vegas, without mentioning AI, especially with every major company at the event touting their AI offering. This year, AI agents and physical AI emerged as key themes, demonstrating how this transformative technology is poised to reshape our homes, workplaces, and the world around us.
Tim Chuah
Emerging Brands Disrupt Consumer Electronics: Lessons from India for Other Emerging Markets
30 Aug 24New Indian brands like Noise and Fire-Boltt dominate consumer electronics in India with affordable but feature-rich products. This trend of affordable indulgence is reshaping consumer behaviour, with India's TWS earbuds and activity wearables market projected to reach USD8.2 billion by 2029.
Loo Wee Teck
Identifying Air Conditioner's Next Growth Market Using the Forecast Model
19 Jan 24The Forecast Model for Consumer Appliances and Consumer Electronics was built to help the industry understand growth drivers in an easy-to-understand visual presentation. It provides tools to easily compare market growth and growth decomposition by product and country. In this piece, we will take you through a step-by-step methodology to identify which are high growth markets and the growth drivers behind them.
Tim Chuah
Five Appliances Trends to Watch in 2024
5 Dec 232024 promises to be an exciting year for the appliances industry. As inflation fears subside together with the expectation of no more rate hikes and, dare we say it, a cut in rates, the next year is full of growth opportunities.
Tim Chuah
Forecast Model for Consumer Appliances and Consumer Electronics
23 Nov 23The durables (Consumer Appliances and Consumer Electronics) market is changing rapidly and the environment in which it operates is more turbulent than ever. Euromonitor International is delighted to introduce a new tool, the Forecast Model Durables (FM Durables), that can assist in plotting a course through this disruption and navigate future market evolution.
Loo Wee Teck
IFA Leaders Summit
Messe Berlin Messedamm 22 14055 Berlin 1 September 2023 11:30 CETFor almost 100 years, IFA has been at the forefront of innovations and presents the latest products and innovations from around the world.
Ratna Sita Handayani
Connectivity, Smart Home and Sustainability at IFA2022 Berlin
21 Oct 22IFA 2022 Berlin took place in a physical space for the first time after a three-year break. The conference featured the latest product innovations and industry hot topics, and also allowed experts to get back together. The 2022 IFA conference revolved around three themes, as expressed by IFA’s Senior Vice President David Ruetz in his opening speech – connectivity, smart home and sustainability.
Valeriya Sorokina
Trends Impacting Forecast Sales of Consumer Electronics
5 Sep 22The latest consumer electronics research shows that retail value sales are projected to register a 4% CAGR over the forecast period worldwide, despite inflationary pressure and global supply chain constraints causing havoc globally. What are the factors that are driving the growth of consumer electronics as the world transitions to the new normal?
Veronika Kandusova
New Business Models: From Connectivity Boom to Pandemic Dynamism and Inflation Surge
22 Jul 22Only 55 companies have remained on the Fortune 500 list continuously since its inception in 1955. In that year, GM was the biggest company in the world. 70 or so years later, Wal-Mart, a discount store, is the biggest, while GM filed for bankruptcy in 2009. A generation ago, a “Kodak moment” referred to a picture-worthy moment. Today, it is widely used to describe companies that failed to adapt to market disruptions. Clearly, companies need to innovate their products and business models to survive.
Ian Bell
Apple Inc: Focus on Services to Grow User Base
6 Jun 22Apple achieved its highest ever sales in 2021, despite global macroeconomic challenges. The company is shifting its business towards services, a strategy intended to avoid overreliance on sales of iPhones and to grow the company's user base.
Euromonitor International
Samsung in Consumer Electronics: From Products to Ecosystems
6 May 22Samsung enjoyed a stellar 2021, as high demand continued to be driven by pandemic-related interest in TVs, smart wearables and headphones. To fight competition from China, Samsung offered affordable 5G lines of smartphones. The company also invested in the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem and service development, to maximise cross-selling and as a further challenge to Apple.
Veronika Kandusova
The Fight for Headphones Supremacy - Design as a Differentiator in TWS Earbuds
16 Feb 22Headphones is the fastest growing category in consumers electronics with many brands flooding the market. How can new entrants or established brands stay relevant in the overly crowded headphones market?
Loo Wee Teck
5G Adoption and Availability in the United States
11 Dec 19The much anticipated rollout of high-speed 5G networks in the United States began in earnest in 2019 when many of the nation’s wireless carriers began offering coverage in large cities. Urban areas like Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta were the first…
Euromonitor International
AI & Big Data Leaders Summit Hong Kong 2019
9 Dec 19The AI and Big Data Leaders Summit were hosted by Forward Leading at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on the 5-6th November. At the two-day event, 42 speakers came from a wide variety of backgrounds, ranging from finance to creative…
Daegal Leung
Google Acquires Fitbit for $2.1 Billion
1 Nov 19Tech giant Google announced that it would buy Fitbit, a leading wearable electronics manufacturer, for $2.1 billion today. The move marks Google’s second high-profile investment in wearable technology this year, after its January 2019 $40 million…
Euromonitor International
Smart Living Innovation at KES 2019
25 Oct 19Korea Electronics Show (KES) is the largest electronics show in South Korea and has been running for 50 years. Innovative technology was a key factor at KES, showing how advanced technology will enhance smart living in the future. LG and Samsung ran…
Euromonitor International
IFA 2019 (Part Two): Sustainability, Commoditisation and Functional Aesthetics
24 Sep 19This is the second in a two-part recap of IFA 2019. For the consumer electronics recap – see here. 5G, Voice and AI were the main highlights of IFA 2019 which took place in Berlin, 4-11 of September. During keynotes, panel discussion and…
Valeriya Sorokina
IFA 2019: Software Launches Outweigh New Product Releases
16 Sep 19The consumer electronics and appliances industry gathered in Berlin for IFA 2019, a key fair in the industry’s event calendar. It comes at a difficult time as trade wars are in full swing and sales growth is declining across the globe, falling to…
Euromonitor International