Retail

Our Retail Trend Report takes a deep dive into the key themes shaping consumer behaviour, emerging trends, and how to translate these into engaging product opportunities that will enhance your retail offer and delight your customers. Key themes explored include:

• Comfort and the new wellness
• Human connection and craft
• Escapism through reality, nature and slowness
• Colour as an emotional and commercial strategy
• Shifting consumer identities and values
• Retail opportunities rooted in meaning, longevity and joy.

This insightful report will help you to anticipate shifting consumer needs, respond proactively to cultural and economic change, and make informed decisions that balance creativity with commercial resilience.

Please note the Retail Trend Report is available for members only. You will need to be logged in to access the report via our Member Resources page. (Not yet a member? Join today).

Join us online on 23 September for our next annual Retail Conference, sharing best practice, product innovation and new ideas to enhance your retail offer and drive sales.

• Learn practical approaches you can apply straight away
• Hear real world experience from across the sector
• Share challenges and solutions 
• Leave with new ideas, contacts and confidence

Retail Essentials:
Shop Floor Skills

Retail Essentials:
Visual Merchandising

Retail Essentials:
Buying

Retail Essentials:
Finance

Advanced Visual Merchandising

Visual Merchandising and Consumer Psychology

Bespoke Product Development

PR for
Cultural Retail

Licensing Essentials

Advanced Licensing

Retail Sustainability Framework

A new member resource to help retail teams embed sustainable practices, with templates, tips and strategies to take action at your own pace and achieve your sustainability goals.

Retail Trend Report 2026

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