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Top 100 City Destinations Index 2025: Driving Growth and Innovation
2 Dec 25The Euromonitor International Top 100 City Destinations Index 2025, produced in collaboration with Lighthouse, assesses 100 cities using more than 50 metrics across six core pillars to deliver an overall city attractiveness score. Covering economic and business activity, tourism performance, infrastructure, tourism policy and appeal, health and safety, and sustainability, the Index offers a holistic perspective on the factors driving urban success and resilience.
Vitalij Vladykin
Where is US Apparel and Footwear Headed Amid Relentless Change?
24 Nov 25The US economy has endured years of rising costs, and 2025 brought renewed uncertainty as geopolitical risks and market volatility disrupted recovery. Trade agreements and tariff adjustments with partners like China have offered some relief, but instability has eroded business confidence and weakened consumer sentiment – especially in discretionary categories such as apparel and footwear.
Jitong Li
Groceryshop 2025: Challenges and Opportunities in US Grocery Retail
12 Nov 25From 28 September to 1 October 2025, US-based events organiser Shoptalk held its annual Groceryshop conference in Las Vegas. Across four stages hosting presentations and panel discussions, thought leadership focused on the impact of AI, the challenge of serving customers across digital and physical channels, the currently fragmented but promising retail media space, and declining sales volumes.
Leah Boston
GLP-1 Medications Reshape the US Weight Loss Market
7 Oct 25Access to GLP-1 medications is set to grow in the US with the expansion of telehealth and the development of pill formats both driving costs down. This will have a significant impact on traditional weight loss products which are struggling to compete. Companies operating in the weight loss space must cater to the new GLP-1 consumer and their evolving need states.
Ashley Mandel
US Retailers Confront Uncertainty at Shoptalk Fall 2025
2 Oct 25During 17-19 September, US-based retail events organiser Shoptalk held its annual Shoptalk Fall conference in Chicago. Industry leaders gathered for keynotes, panels and interactive sessions exploring themes ranging from agentic AI to retail media to the impact of the Trump administration’s new tariff regime. Euromonitor International was in attendance and is pleased to share some of the most important takeaways.
Bob Hoyler
Energising Everyone: How New Segmentation is Powering US Energy Drinks Beyond the Core
18 Aug 25Energy drinks remains one of the growth stars in US soft drinks, and more widely across consumer packaged goods. Despite many categories struggling to stimulate meaningful volume with a financially stretched US consumer, energy drinks achieved 4% retail volume growth in 2024 – even accounting for weaker traffic in the higher-priced, inflation-impacted convenience channel, a challenge which appears to be somewhat abating in 2025.
Howard Telford