Research and Markets: Everything You Need to Know about Holiday and Seasonal Home Decorating.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets announces the addition of 'Seasonal Decorating Report, 2004: The Who, What, Where, How Much, and Why of Holiday and Seasonal Home Decorating' to their offering.

Consumers are expressing a new and growing passion for more decorations to help them celebrate important holidays and party events throughout the year. And not just Christmas, but Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter are becoming an important new seasonal decorating opportunity. And passion to decorate the home for parties and celebrations is driving purchases for party decorations.

Consumers' passion for decorating their home for the holidays is growing and this report will give you the detail data to understand the opportunity

You have probably heard how the end of the cocooning trend and the emergence of the new connecting trend are distinguished by consumers turning away from buying purely decorative home accents, while seeking solutions to get rid of unnecessary clutter that has accumulated in their homes. The one exception to the new 'anti-clutter' movement is Christmas and holiday decorating.

To help decorations marketers and retailers better understand the bright opportunities available in helping consumers with their holiday and party decorating needs, a new research study of the holiday and event decorating market has been conducted. It includes an in-depth quantitative research study among 1,000 holiday decorators and decorations buyers.

With a focus on the consumer, their needs, desires and preferences, this report is a groundbreaking study of consumer holiday decorating and buying behavior that includes statistics about:

--Which holidays they decorate for and whether they focus their decorations inside and/or outside of the home

--What holidays they purchased decorations for in the past year and what items they bought

--Did they buy decorations to celebrate any special events, such as birthdays, weddings, showers, reunions, etc.

--How much was spent buying decorations for each holiday or event

--Which stores do they prefer to buy decorations?

--Trends in spending on decorations and whether or not they are placing more emphasis on decorating now and into the future

Special Section: Christmas 2004 Decorations Buying Plans

A spend future vision section of the consumer survey focused on their buying plans for the 2004 Christmas season. Did you know that about 10% of decorations buyers are already shopping for new holiday decorations? Or that traditional Christmas red and green will be the 'hot' new/old color for this year's holiday celebrations?

For a complete index of this report click on http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/225310

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