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• Chatbots make up the largest portion of artificial intelligence and they could save insurance, financial services, sales, and customer service departments $174 billion.
• Emerging passenger car markets (China and India) are expected to lead growth in sales and should reach a total of 99 million cars globally in 2050.
• Strength of Apple's iPhone X is expected to drive sales of smartphones in North America, China and Western Europe in 2018.
• If sales are declining the amount of legislation impacting cigarettes is increasing: For example, as of June 1, 2018, the price of a pack of cigarettes will jump to at least $13 in New York City, the highest price in the nation.
• Sales of EVs are expected to be five times higher in 2020 compared to 2015 and to take a rapidly increasing share of the market in an industry whose revenue in 2016 was more than $2 trillion99.
• 451 Research expects sales of MMDCs will accelerate in the coming years.
• Sales of all types of electronic security products are expected to increase 5.0% annually to $17 billion in 2021.
• Sales of security alarm systems are projected to increase 5.1% per year through 2021.
  
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• Global electric vehicle sales will grow at a rate of 10 percent a year from 2019 onwards.
• According to Business Insider, mobile payments, powered by debit cards and loyalty programs could rise by a compound annual growth rate of 80 percent between 2015 and 2020.
• Sales of ultra-high performance and two-dimensional liquid chromatography systems will drive laboratory LC revenues to $ 2,819.4 million in 2018 with an annual growth rate of 6.8 percent.
  
• There is an opportunity for the UK to become one of the most advanced economies for smart energy and technologies.
• PC sales in 2018 will get a further boost from improvement in the Russian economy.
• The UK low carbon economy could grow by an estimated 11 per cent per year between 2015 and 2030 and could deliver between £60 billion and £170 billion of export sales of goods and services by 2030.
• The Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen expect US online grocery sales to grow from $20.5 billion , or 4 percent overall, in 2016 to $100 billion, or 20 percent overall, by 2025.
  
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• By 2021, Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts U.S. electric vehicle sales could reach 800,000 annually.
• Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts EVs will be as cheap as gasoline cars by 2025 and keep dropping in price until EVs overtake them in yearly sales.
  
• markets
• Conventional engines will continue to be the powertrain of choice for buses in many markets during the next 10 years.
• Sales of EVs are expected to be five times higher in 2020 compared to 2015 and to take a rapidly increasing share of the market in an industry whose revenue in 2016 was more than $2 trillion99.
• The Asia-Pacific market will experience high demand, but vendors must promote advanced analytical instruments to customers.
• A Shanghai factory would not only make Tesla's vehicles more palatable but could help it satisfy demand now that the Chinese EV market is truly heating up.
• Emerging passenger car markets (China and India) are expected to lead growth in sales and should reach a total of 99 million cars globally in 2050.
• Annual sales of autonomous versions will steady rise but remain a tiny share of the global addressable market until around 2023.
• In all regions except for China, hybrid buses are expected to continue to capture greater market share than plug-in buses in the near-term.
• Shire predicts 50% erosion in the inhibitor market for Feiba by 2022.
• Everyone from Marc Woo to Jeff Bezos of Amazon agrees that Southeast Asia will be the next major boom market for online sales.
• The trend over the last few decades of the EU automotive industry successfully gaining market share in both mature and emerging markets outside the EU is under threat despite significant investments and growing efforts to localise EU industry abroad.
  
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• In Latin America, annual sales for EVs are projected to reach up to 230,000 units in the next six years.
• Experts expect EV sales in Latin America will take off between 2030 and 2035.
• North America too is expected to contribute to the global growth of B2C E-commerce market due to increase in spending.
• Strength of Apple's iPhone X is expected to drive sales of smartphones in North America, China and Western Europe in 2018.
• North America is going to grow even greener next year, because Canada is getting ready to legalize recreational marijuana nationwide.
• Annual Plug-in Electric Vehicle Sales in North America Are Expected to Exceed 1.1 Million by 2024.
• Global pork exports are forecast nearly 3 percent higher in 2018 driven by strong demand from Mexico, the Philippines, and South America (Argentina, Chile, and Colombia) where competitive prices support gains in per capita consumption.
  
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• European electric vehicles sales will jump from about 1.5 percent of all new registrations on the continent to about 5 percent in 2021 and take off from 2025.
• New car registrations have fallen 3.9% over the first nine months of 2017 in the UK and are expected to record a fall over the year as a whole.
  
• industry
• Sales of EVs are expected to be five times higher in 2020 compared to 2015 and to take a rapidly increasing share of the market in an industry whose revenue in 2016 was more than $2 trillion99.
• The trend over the last few decades of the EU automotive industry successfully gaining market share in both mature and emerging markets outside the EU is under threat despite significant investments and growing efforts to localise EU industry abroad.
  
• growth
• Amazon's share of eCommerce is expected to increase alongside the growth of online retail sales generally.
• Emerging passenger car markets (China and India) are expected to lead growth in sales and should reach a total of 99 million cars globally in 2050.
• Shipments of mobile phones are expected to return to growth in 2018.
• Management has been warning for a while that ad growth will be pressured starting in the second half of 2017 by the fact that Facebook will no longer see major increases in ad load (the amount of ads it shows over a given amount of viewing time) for its core news feed.
• UK consumers look certain to suffer from ongoing negative real income growth through the rest of 2017 as inflation is expected to hover at 3% or just above and earnings growth remains limited to slightly above 2%.
• North America too is expected to contribute to the global growth of B2C E-commerce market due to increase in spending.
• Norway and Sweden are expected to lead improved pharmaceutical spending growth in Western Europe.
• The growing acceptance of sometimes high-priced innovative orphan drugs and ongoing industry consolidation are expected to drive sales growth for the next several years.

Questions

• Imagine a world where your sales team's findings were logged to your CRM immediately?
• Where are my opportunities to increase revenue by introducing incredible speed to my existing sales reporting structures?
• With more sales organizations turning to technology vendors to solve problems, is it only a matter of time before the whole sales function is outsourced?

Metrics

Technological take up in most countries is likely to be slow and will likely take nearly a generation for worldwide acceptance of the new technologies. Regulation, public acceptance and slow take up of new processes are the three biggest hurdles for sales organizations to overcome. But, for the agile, opportunities to grow abound.

Most affected sectors: Manufacturing. IT, Aerospace & Defense, Education, Healthcare, Energy, Construction.

Topic map
The topic map shows the huge extent that technology will have in both reducing sales cost and promoting new products and services in the future.

Heat map
Except for Africa almost every other region in the world can be expected to adopt new sales technologies and take up the new products and services highlighted in Topic Map above.

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Manufacturing and defense markets are likely to be the lead sectors in the next ten years, especially the vehicle idustry.

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