The New Morality
Where next for consumer values and what this means for brands and branding?
Thursday 30th March – 08:30-09.30
Happenstance, 1a Ludgate Hill, London EC4
We first identified the trend we call The New Morality back in 2012. The term describes how the experience of the economic crash and subsequent recession fundamentally re-shaped consumer values and created several sub-trends:
- The Self-Preservation Society: a shift away from consumer interest in global issues and towards concern about the local and the personal
- C-Suite Scrutiny: a transformation of the pre-cash corporate social responsibility agenda away from the established ‘ethical consumption’ agenda, with a new focus on corporate governance and probity
- The Death of Deference: at the turn of the Millennium it was common to talk of the Decline of Deference towards brands and institutions. It is now more accurate to talk of the Death of Deference, an extreme and more challenging form of the earlier trend
The New Morality trends have played out to spectacular effect in the intervening years, not least in the major political upheavals of 2016. Five years on from its first appearance, Trajectory’s next Trends Breakfast will take stock of where The New Morality is now and where it will head next. The implications for brands and branding are fundamental and, potentially, existential.
Our Trends Breakfasts have been running for over three years, and each month sees a different topic discussed and debated over coffee and croissants. Taking place in the private room of a popular city location, an array of figures from different industries hear our thoughts on the chosen topic, which often draws on latest findings from our global attitudes and values survey, Trajectory Global Foresight.
Please email Isabelle (isabelle@trajectorypartnership.com) to reserve your place for free and join us for breakfast!