The restaurant industry includes both fast-food chains, which offer limited service, and full-service establishments with sit-down table service. This includes burger joints like McDonald’s, coffee houses and bakeries like Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and Panera, as well as pizza places and other chains serving up international culinary favorites like Tex-Mex, Mexican, and Asian foods.

The global sports market will rise at an annual growth rate of around 6% to nearly $614 billion by 2022, the report Sports Global Market Opportunities and Strategies from The Business Research Company shows.

During the forecast period, the growing popularity of esports events is expected to drive the global sports market. eSports, or competitive video gaming, is a multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers.

The year may be winding down, but our analysts haven’t put the brakes on yet. Our in-house publishing divisions — including Packaged Facts, The Freedonia Group, and Simba Information — released a ton of new articles and press releases in the last two weeks.

See the latest headlines below on a wide range of industries, including restaurants, higher education course materials, power lawn & garden equipment, and much more.

American mothers make the majority of household purchasing decisions and spend more than $2 trillion per year. Given the vast spending power these moms yield, it’s no surprise that companies in a broad array of industries are eager to appeal to this influential demographic.

Wire and cable companies manufacture insulated fiber optic cables — which are network cables containing strands of glass fibers inside an insulated case — and coaxial cables and other insulated nonferrous wires, which are copper and aluminum wires used by industries such as energy, automotive, telecoms and others.

Read on to learn more about this vast, complex global industry, with data and analysis from a recent report by The Business Research Company.

MarketResearch.com's publishing divisions released a flurry of articles and press releases this week, highlighting new market research on a wide variety of industry categories, from pet products and services to academic testing to pharmaceutical packaging and more.

Check out all the latest headlines and access new market insights below.

In 2018, Amazon’s global net sales reached $233 billion, and its impressive growth continues to rattle the retail industry.

Amazon is on a path to become the largest retailer in the U.S. — and is expected to overtake Walmart by 2022, according to data from a recent market research report by Packaged Facts titled Amazon Strategies and the Amazon Shopper, 2^nd Edition. Amazon’s U.S. gross merchandise sales will contribute nearly half of U.S. e-commerce sales by 2022, up from 43% in 2019 and 28% in 2015.

In this blog post, we bring you the latest articles and press releases from our publishers that include new market data and analysis on a variety of dynamic industries.

Learn what's next for Amazon, how beer brewers are branching out, holiday gift trends in the pet industry, and much more.

In addition, be sure to check out this week's featured video on eating trends and restaurant use.

Would you be surprised to find a body weight scale, body mass indicator chart and height indicator in your office restrooms? What about an employer-sponsored counselling facility on site? Deloitte India offers these as part of its employee wellness program, and more and more global companies are following suite with similar initiatives to boost the health and productivity of their employees.

The global breakfast cereal market is expected to grow 3% per year to reach $40 billion in 2023, according to new research and analysis from Packaged Facts, a leading market research firm and division of MarketResearch.com.

Breakfast cereal is a highly penetrated category in mature markets such as the U.S., but there is plenty of room for growth, particularly in Asia, Africa, and the Mideast, as Western diets become more common across the world.