Our Industry outlook and ESG assessment

What to know

Our market growth and driver analyses triangulate multiple credible sources to provide a sensible starting point for your own analyses.

Our ESG Assessment covers a broad range of factors and qualitatively analyses the evidence raising or mitigating ESG risk exposure, plus any stated focuses or accreditations.

Market growth and drivers

We aim to present a credible market outlook, using multiple reputable sources, including Gain.pro interviews, for market sizing and industry growth projections.

 Based on data availability, this may cover global and regional markets, individual segments and relevant proxies.

ESG assessment

We assess a number of environmental and social factors that include, but are not limited to:

• Ecological: carbon emissions, water stress, raw material sourcing, (electronic) waste, energy consumption, packaging material,
• Social: labour management, health & safety, human capital development, demographic risk, privacy, access to health care

The exposure to risk is rated for each of these criteria based on the number and severity of risks and aggregated in a star rating for the segment as a whole. In addition, we identify ESG outperformers, which stand out based on their third-party rewards and accreditations related to ecological and social aspects: