Young, Mobile and Growing: The State of U.S. Hispanic Consumers
Nielsen Wire (April 17, 2012)
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than 52 million strong and representing the majority of population
growth over the next five years, Latinos have become prominent in all
aspects of American life. A growing, evolving population, Latinos are a
fundamental component to future business success, with a buying power of
$1 trillion in 2010 that is projected to grow 50 percent to $1.5
trillion in 2015.
In State of the Hispanic Consumer: The Hispanic Market Imperative report,
Nielsen has identified several unique circumstances that combine to
make Hispanics the largest population group to exhibit culture
sustainability-ever. Borderless social networking, unprecedented
exchange of goods, technology as a facilitator for cultural exchange,
retro acculturation, and new culture generation combine to enable
Hispanic culture in the U.S. to be sustainable. In other words, Hispanic
culture may evolve but will not go away.
For businesses, this makes understanding Hispanic consumers essential. Key findings of The Hispanic Market Imperative include:
The overall U.S. population is graying,
but the Latino population remains young and the primary feeder of
workforce growth and new consumption. The median age of the Latino
population is 28 years old, nearly ten years younger than the total
market median age of 37 years. Given that the age for a new home buyer
is between 26 and 46 years old, Latinos will become a force in
residential purchasing over the next ten years.
Technology and media use do not mirror the general market
but have distinct patterns due to language, culture, and ownership
dynamics. For example, Hispanics spend 68 percent more time watching
video on the Internet and 20 percent more time watching video on their
mobile phones than non-Hispanic whites.
Latinos exhibit distinct product consumption patterns
and are not buying in ways that are the same as the total market.
Hispanics make fewer shopping trips per household than non-Hispanics,
for instance, and spend more per trip.
Rapid Latino population growth will persist.
Between 2000 and 2011, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the
U.S. population increase; in other words, their 10-year increase was
slightly greater than that of all other non-Hispanics combined.
Hispanics will contribute an even greater share (60 percent or higher)
of all population growth over the next five years.
Hispanic culture is sustainable.
A 2011 national survey of Hispanic adults found that nine out of ten
Hispanic parents and parents-to-be want their children to be able to
speak Spanish, even though they also want them to become fluent in
English.
Invisible Boycott Under Way - Many people are avoiding Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and other unwelcoming states, the same for Business. Nobody wants to be harassed by Ignorant and Brutal Policemen. Or by idiotic employees or bureaucracies ( public or private ) :
ReplyDeleteThe Super Power of a Wallet :
People love their wallets and moneys and don't want to give them to scoundrels.
Let's assume that you are a tourist with some money to spend in traveling, vacation, merchandise, souvenirs.
Are you going to spend that money, your time and resources, in places where you are not welcome ??
Where you are tortured, harassed and humiliated ??
By ignorant bigots, racists, haters that everyday listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, or some other cretin and idiot repeating the same stupidity in every program ??
By people with inferiority complexes and psychological inadequacies, poor losers that have a revenge against life and want to turn you into a victim, to satisfy their sadism ??
Do you want "souvenirs" from states where people vote laws of hatred, discrimination, segregation and apartheid ??
Yes, Slavery was very popular and won many elections, Segregation was very popular and won many elections, the Ku Klux Klan was very popular and won many elections, Apartheid was very popular and won men elections.
The Nazis were very popular and won many elections and Hitler was elevated to Chancellor of the Reich by legal methods and the "Rule of Law".
But Henry David Thoureau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King taught us to despise "The Rule of Law" when it is INJUSTICE, DOMINATION, HUMILIATION and HATRED.
I don't know what the U. S. Supreme Court is going to decide on SB 1070, but if this court wants to legislate from the bench overpowering President Obama and Congress then the new "Four Horsemen" will be losers at the end and will be defeated in elections.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt could finally defeat the "Four Horsemen" of "Social Darwinism" ( his own words ) that plagued his presidency. He finally changed the U. S. Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama will do the same if the new "Four Horsemen" want to be so unwise.
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