{"id":16233,"date":"2021-07-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/13\/new-research-signals-the-rise-of-a-growing-aspirational-consumer-class-in-hong-kong-increasingly-dominated-by-millennials-according-to-new-research-by-iab-seaindia-and-carousell-media-group\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:00:00","slug":"new-research-signals-the-rise-of-a-growing-aspirational-consumer-class-in-hong-kong-increasingly-dominated-by-millennials-according-to-new-research-by-iab-seaindia-and-carousell-media-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/13\/new-research-signals-the-rise-of-a-growing-aspirational-consumer-class-in-hong-kong-increasingly-dominated-by-millennials-according-to-new-research-by-iab-seaindia-and-carousell-media-group\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Signals The Rise Of A Growing Aspirational Consumer Class In Hong Kong, Increasingly Dominated By Millennials, According To New Research By IAB SEA+INDIA And Carousell Media Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 13 July 2021 -&#13;<br \/>\nAccording to a new report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/mediagroup.carousell.com\/\">Carousell Media Group (CMG)<\/a> and IAB&#13;<br \/>\nSoutheast Asia and India (IAB SEA+India), income levels and purchasing patterns&#13;<br \/>\nin Hong Kong signalled towards a growing aspirational consumer class. 64% of&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kongers noted that their household income was in the top 50% income tier.<b>\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The report on the <b>Millennial Motivations and Buying Behaviours Online across Southeast&#13;<br \/>\nAsia and Hong Kong,<\/b> conducted across five Carousell Group&#8217;s markets -&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia (for both Carousell and Mudah.my&#13;<br \/>\nplatforms) and Vietnam (Cho Tot) with over 3,500 of its respondents, also&#13;<br \/>\nuncovered that the global trend of recommerce &#8211; or the buying and selling of&#13;<br \/>\npre-owned items &#8211; is accelerating in this part of the world. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This research captures a&#13;<br \/>\nhighly engaged millennial audience who are in the browsing and buying mindset,&#13;<br \/>\nmotivated by a great deal, variety of options, and by their belief that&#13;<br \/>\npurchasing pre-owned is more sustainable. In addition, when we took a closer&#13;<br \/>\nlook at the Luxury Category, we found that half of all respondents bought&#13;<br \/>\nluxury items in the past 12 months. Overall, Singapore, Carousell Malaysia and&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong are above the purchasing average; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/03\/15\/southeast-asias-post-pandemic-recovery-outlook\/\">despite being in the midst of a global economic slowdown<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\nThis signals the rise of a growing aspirational consumer class, dominated&#13;<br \/>\nprimarily by under 35s.&#8221; JJ Eastwood, Managing Director, CMG shared. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This regional research&#13;<br \/>\nestablishes the audience profile in each market then explores income and&#13;<br \/>\nspending habits, how the audience spends their time online, and offline, motivations&#13;<br \/>\nto use buy-and-sell marketplaces, as well as attitudes towards sustainability&#13;<br \/>\nin relation to their purchasing habits. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Key findings include:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>93% of Millennials in Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nfelt that purchasing pre-owned items is more sustainable<\/li>\n<li>62% of respondents in Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nbought a luxury item in the past 12 months, with over 50% buying Bags &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nWallets from brands like Gucci, etc. Luxury accessories and\u00a0 belts are significantly more popular in&#13;<br \/>\nMillennials vs over 35s. <\/li>\n<li>Millennials were more likely to&#13;<br \/>\nsave to buy luxury items vs over 35s. We see that most of the Millennial&#13;<br \/>\nhousehold income goes towards savings (27%), which is higher than the regional&#13;<br \/>\naverage. However, over 35s are significantly more motivated by promotions and&#13;<br \/>\nsales when it comes to purchasing a luxury item. <\/li>\n<li>Millennials overall, also cared&#13;<br \/>\nmore about social issues such as sustainability, social responsibility and&#13;<br \/>\nclimate change in comparison to over 35s. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>In the majority of markets, both&#13;<br \/>\nthose under 35 and over 35 are equally motivated to use the platform as the&#13;<br \/>\nenvironmental impact is lesser when purchasing a pre-owned item. <\/li>\n<li><i>Gaming, Mobile, Gadgets or Accessories<\/i> is the&#13;<br \/>\ntop category in Electronic Items, followed by <i>Computer Accessories<\/i> and <i>Home&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Kitchen Appliances<\/i>; these are all categories that facilitate&#13;<br \/>\nentertainment, communication, virtual working and cooking as respondents spent&#13;<br \/>\nmore time at home due to COVID-19. <\/li>\n<li>Asian platforms dominate the&#13;<br \/>\ncompetitor landscape against similar Western platforms such as Amazon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across all the local market research, what&#13;<br \/>\nwas consistently obvious is that we are witnessing the explosive growth of&#13;<br \/>\nrecommerce as it feeds two key needs of consumers today; the demand for&#13;<br \/>\nsustainability and the hunt for a good deal. This&#13;<br \/>\njuncture of ethics and eCommerce creates fertile ground for retail media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/publications\/2021\/how-to-compete-in-retail-mediaretailers%E2%80%99%20ability%20to%20access%20first-party%20data%20and%20%E2%80%9Cclose%20the%20loop%E2%80%9D%20by%20identifying%20those%20who%20make%20a%20purchase%20after%20seeing%20an%20ad%20makes%20retail%20media%20a%20compelling%20new%20channel%20for%20advertisers.\">because of the&#13;<br \/>\ninterplay among customer data, closed-loop reporting, and real-world results&#13;<br \/>\nthat generate more and better data<\/a>.&#8221; Miranda Dimopoulos, Regional&#13;<br \/>\nCEO, IAB SEA+India said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recommerce has become&#13;<br \/>\nsynonymous with sustainability and this research demonstrates how important&#13;<br \/>\nthis has become to young people across the region. As we see users spending&#13;<br \/>\nmore on high-value products like luxury, and cars, we also see them being&#13;<br \/>\nincreasingly conscious of where they spend their money. This presents a unique&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity for brands to win the hearts and minds of this core consumer&#13;<br \/>\nsegment around issues they care deeply about,&#8221; said JJ Eastwood.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For full access to the local market reports&#13;<br \/>\nand to discuss retail media opportunities with Carousell Media Group in more&#13;<br \/>\ndetail, email us at <a href=\"mailto:mediagroup@thecarousell.com\">mediagroup@thecarousell.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Any research questions or feedback can be&#13;<br \/>\nsent to <a href=\"mailto:hello@iabseaindia.com\">hello@iabseaindia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-13\/85254\/new-research-signals-the-rise-of-a-growing-aspirational-consumer-class-in-hong-kong-increasingly-dominated-by-millennials-according-to-new-research-by-iab-seaindia-and-carousell-media-group\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 13 July 2021 -&#13; According to a new report published by Carousell Media Group (CMG) and IAB&#13; Southeast Asia and India (IAB SEA+India), income levels and purchasing patterns&#13; in Hong Kong signalled towards a growing aspirational consumer class. 64% of&#13; Hong Kongers noted that their household income was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}