Retail occupancy levels are at an all time low as out-of-town centres and online shopping boom. Will bricks and mortar retailing truly be replaced by the online experience, leaving town centres deserted?

WARNING: If controversial recommendations are to be taken seriously, they need to come from a credible source, says Jeremy Bullmore

In the June issue of Market Leader, Hugh Davidson identified banks and other sectors as value extractors.

 In his excellent article, ‘Only consumers can make capitalism work’ (Market Leader, June 2012), Hugh Davidson raised a number of interesting points in relation to the future of capitalism following the financial crisis.

Max Planck, the German theoretical physicist, had a friend who was an economist. “Why don’t you turn your mind to economics, Max?” the friend once asked. “I couldn’t,” he replied. “The maths is too difficult.”

The waistlines of the West are getting larger, with increasing numbers of people in the US, UK and Australasia described as clinically obese.

David Jones describes the evolving social landscape in which companies and brands will operate. Good behaviour will be required by more discerning consumers, placing demands on companies never previously experienced.

Hugh Davidson explains how a proper appreciation and application of the marketing principle and its values across all aspects of business would make consumer-led capitalism a model in which everyone had a stake and guard again

Martin Glenn, CEO Birds Eye Iglo Group dicusses why brand marketing needs a relaunch and how to do it. 

Vincent Rousselet observes that a growing body of literature is devoted to the measurement of human happiness in addition to the traditional economic metrics.