Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – A Snapshot of Mature Market Trends Shaping the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail Industries – I recently read an interesting report by IRI on Boomers and the CPG category that had some interesting stats, charts and findings. IRA segments the mature market [...]
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Adolescence Again – Your Thoughts on “Middlescence?”
Remember those adolescent years? Some of you may wish you return there again. Others may say, “No way!” When we reach our middle years, some suggest we go through a second adolescence called “middlescence.” In the first adolescent phase, we had to deal with the challenges of moving into adult life and planning for our [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – $20B For Healthcare Information Technology – All politics are local, so the saying goes. So, it is worth noting that the amount of money being allocated in the new recovery and reinvestment law will affect all of us in some way on a [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Mature Market Experts LinkedIn Membership Climbs Past 300! I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the growth of our LinkedIn networking group. We are now the largest networking LinkedIn group for people serving the mature market. Our group connects investors, bankers, real estate developers, consumer [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mature Market Experts Stat of The Day: Mature Market Working Longer and Claiming Unemployment
Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Mature Market Working Longer and Claiming Unemployment- Whether it is driven by need or the desire to stay connected; more of the mature market is working longer. “The number of unemployed workers 75 and older increased to more than 73,000 in January, up [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – What Does The Mature Market Cut In A Bad Economy?- AARP’s research “A year-end look at the Economic Slowdown’s Impact on Middle-Aged and Older Americans,” which was a review of 2008 provides some interesting insight on what changes the mature market makes during [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – A Need That Recession Can’t Stop – Interesting story in yesterday’s Dallas News that includes a quote from me (Tom Mann of TR Mann Consulting) about how the greying population means job stability for at least one sector of our economy.
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – Boomer Real Estate Preferences – “An National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) survey of consumer preferences shows that Boomers prefer single-level living with three bedrooms (compared to their younger cohorts who want four bedrooms in a two-story house). Ease of maintenance, energy efficiency [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – The Changing Role of Men As Caregivers -”The Alzheimer’s Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimate that men make up nearly 40 percent of family care providers now, up from 19 percent in a 1996 study by the Alzheimer’s Association. About 17 [...]
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Mature Market Experts: more mature market news and stats more often – mature market skiers and the economy – I recently went skiing close to home (Deep Creek, Maryland) with my wife and children and couldn’t help but notice the slopes were packed. Long lines everywhere you went. Didn’t seem like the economy was slowing [...]
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