by carterjmrn | Oct 16, 2015 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Anyone paying attention to the stock market over the past six months will have borne witness to the incredible run up of the price of electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, Inc. Back in March the stock was trading in the mid thirties, but had reached almost $170 by...
by carterjmrn | Sep 16, 2015 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Many a time, it has been said that Japan likes to do things its own way. And nowhere is this truer than in the music business. In the past decade in Western markets we have witnessed an almost complete transformation in the landscape of the music industry. Starting...
by carterjmrn | Jun 27, 2013 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Those of us who have lived in Japan for some time will often marvel at how quickly and definitely the seasons change. One day it’s winter and the next it’s spring — such is the speed with which the seemingly entrenched weather pattern can change. So also it seems with...
by carterjmrn | May 21, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Retailers of all types are having to work harder to attract and hold consumers’ attention in the “real” versus “virtual” worlds, as consumers of all ages become increasingly engaged with all things digital. But several recent retail concepts in Tokyo show the...
by carterjmrn | Apr 21, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
Nowadays, it’s often said that television is a dying medium and that newer, more interactive forms of media are taking its place. This is certainly as true in Japan as it is anywhere else. But even in the world’s biggest advertising market, the US, TV still has an...
by carterjmrn | Mar 27, 2012 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Marketing Trends and Insights
When I first came to Japan in the late 1990s, one of the most telling signs of the country’s consumer technology progress versus America, Europe and Australia was its cell-phone network. Not only were Japanese handsets much more advanced than what was available on the...
