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Pets Are Big Business: Americans spent nearly $30 billion on pet related products and services in ‘02, according to a new Unity Marketing study. Today 55% of American house-holds own one or more pets. Consumer expenditures are divided into pet foods and supplies, which totaled $18 billion in ‘02, ...read more
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In ‘01 Americans spent $593.9 billion on fun, an amount equal to the GNP of Canada. (Foster letter ...read more
Wal-Mart will require 100 key suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) to track pallets of goods through its supply chain by 1/05. RFID involves a chip with an antenna that, when activated by a reader can send or receive information. The industry is on ...read more
Christians Shop Wal-Mart: According to The NY Times, AOL-Time Warner books unit chairman Laurence J. Kirshbaum said he decided to start Warner Faith publishing “because a book buyer at Wal-Mart told him that more than half its ...read more
Retirement Ready? 74% of Baby Boomers believe they are financially prepared for retirement, but 59% expect to carry debt into retirement and 46% have less than $50,000 in savings. More than 50% of pre-retirees underestimate their life expectancy. According to mortality tables, a married couple at ...read more
The bottled-water industry is now a $7.7 billion a year market. (Foster letter ...read more
Among the 75-and-overs, only 29% carry any debt at all compared with 85% of the 45-to-54 group. (Foster ...read more
Dollar Shoppers: 62% of U.S. households shopped at a dollar store last year, up from 52% in ’99 reports ACNielson. The typical dollar shopper is the female head of a 3-4-member household with an ...read more
Big Brands according to Business week, the most valuable brand in America is Coca-Cola, followed in order of value by Microsoft, IBM, GE, Intel, Nokia, Disney, McDonald’s, ...read more
Microsoft’s cash hoard is so large it exceeds the $45 billion annual gross output of Romania. (Foster ...read more
Wal-Mart serves 15.7 million customers daily in the U.S. (Foster Letter ...read more
Last year Americans spent $620.1 billion on recreation and entertainment, nearly 50% more than on clothing and accessories. ...read more
Wal-Mart Facts Business Week reported this interesting data on Wal-Mart: · 82% of American households made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart last year. · 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart every week. · It commands about 30% of total U.S. market share for toothpaste, shampoo, and paper ...read more
Forbes.com estimates that Wal-Mart owns $1 billion of the total Christian product retail market of $1.2 billion. (Foster ...read more
College Costs have risen 13% this year and 47% over the past decade. That’s an annual average increase of 3.9%. If room and board costs are included, the average student pays $26,854 a year to attend a private university and $10,636 for a ...read more
Annual Health Insurance out-of-pocket costs for employees of large companies have more than doubled since ‘98, to $2,126 this year, according to Hewitt Associates, a benefits consulting firm. Hewitt is expecting a 22% jump next year, to $2,595. Employers still pay 70% of total health care costs but ...read more
1.3 million people work for Wal-Mart, about as many as serve actively in the U.S. military. (Foster ...read more
The average American household owes $8,500 on their credit cards. (Foster Letter ...read more
“Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it ...read more
“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of ...read more
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