Crazy Christmas 2010 [Infographic]
Posted by Bertie onFriday Jan 21, 2011 Under InfographicsCrazy Crimbo 2010 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Ho Ho Ho, Christmas – a time for all things festive, giving and receiving and all things jolly!
Now, after what seems like a lifetime away (was it really only 26 days ago) our marketing bods and analytics geeks have dug out some pretty cool ‘Yule’ stats and pieced them together in this natty Infographic. Enjoy…
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Spend Spend Spend
Us Brits are a generous bunch spending enough to purchase over 6 Space Shuttles which come in at a whopping $1.7B each! Men are more generous, spending £24.57 per gift whilst women spread the love a lot further spending on average £212.99 for 9.5 gifts, compared to a poultry male average of £171.99. Humbug!
Talking of poultry, we consumed a ginormous 10 million turkeys last Christmas and polish off a not so insignificant 200,000 tonnes of choccy! Burp! It would appear that this veritable festive treat wasn’t consumed on the busiest Christmas shopping day of the year (6th December) as £831,000 was spent per minute online during that particular lunchtime.
Waste!
Aside the estimated 1 billion Christmas cards we throw away each year, it is estimated that over 51 square miles of wrapping paper ends up in bins which is enough to wrap the Empire State Building a whopping 523 times or, should it take your fancy almost 6 million elephants. Pass the sellotape.
Top Tech for 2010
Unsurprisingly the top selling goody for 2010 was the Ipad which sold a splendid 14 million Worldwide. Not bad you think. However, had this princely sum been spent on 1997’s top selling toy, the Tamagotchi, it would have landed you just shy of 518 million of the little blighters. Cowabunga!
Other biggies for 2010 were Amazons Kindle selling 8 million units (or as I prefer to say 118 million Rubik’s Cubes) the Windows 7 Phone (15 million Care Bears) and the Apple TV (6.5 million Apple Trees). Blimey!
Not surprisingly, manufacturers of the Kindle, Amazon were the biggest winners online this Christmas netting over 7% of total online sales. Curry’s, Debenhams and Play were also ‘up there’ sharing 5% of the e-commerce market between them.
Snow Joke
The pesky snowfall increased in December 2010 by a monumental 45%. Don’t get me wrong we love a bit of the white stuff here at Prezzybox, but the week before Christmas…. erm… preferably not please big man in the sky.
The chaps at Royal Mail and the couriers did their hardest, but unfortunately over a quarter of all online sales were delivered late because of the snow. Grrrrr!
Disclaimer: Prezzybox disclaims any inaccuracies in the content contained in this blog post/release. Our analyst (me!) spent days and days toiling over the content and to the best of my knowledge it is all correct. If it’s not then you have my humbug apologies!
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