NORTH AMERICA- As Amazon hosts its annual Prime Day promotional event, we take a look at what draws different age groups to the e-commerce retailer and how other retailers can mirror Amazon’s success.

Despite Brexit concerns, U.K. toy sales increased by 6.3 percent and generated more than £3.5 billion for the first time, according to The NPD Group and the British Toy and Hobby Association.

With the U.S. election falling in the middle of the holiday shopping season, many consumers say they will have a more conservative spending budget this year, according to the National Retail Federation.

The National Retail Federation reports that those celebrating the big game will spend slightly less than they did last year.

U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to online shopping for their holiday season purchases, according to the NPD Group’s 2016 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey.

On the heels of a decade-long rise in Valentine’s Day spending, 2017 will see a market correction on Cupid’s birthday, according to the National Retail Federation.

Although nearly 58 percent of holiday shoppers have already begun their seasonal shopping, millions are expected to turn out for the biggest holiday shopping weekend of the year.

The National Retail Federation is projecting that U.S. retail sales (excluding automobiles, gas stations and restaurants) will increase between 3.7 and 4.2 percent over 2016.

With the holiday season’s halfway mark approaching, more than half of consumers have already started shopping, according to the National Retail Federation’s mid-season survey.

Hundreds of executives from the brand licensing industry’s foremost companies will converge at the NYC Licensing Summit March 2-3 for two days of business building and networking as the event nears sell out.