Catégorie : Research

Meituan reports $1.52 billion 2025 Q1 profit Meituan, China’s leading food delivery platform, reported a 46.2% increase in net profit for Q1 2025, reaching RMB 10.9 billion ($1.52 billion), surpassing analyst expectations. Revenue rose by 18.1% year-over-year to RMB 86.6 billion, driven by strong performance in its core local commerce segment. Despite these gains, CEO…

Thank you to all the people who worked on this year’s Digital Consumer Trends, which has just launched. A 50 page deck of slides is available to everyone. A theme that becomes clearer with every year is how the UK consumer is satiated with many aspects of digital. Some examples: adoption of devices has barely…

The consumer price index rose 0.1% in May, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.4% — less than economists expected, indicating that tariffs haven’t yet had a significant impact on inflation. According to federal data released Wednesday morning, lower energy and gas prices helped offset most other increases. Food prices, however, increased 0.3% month-over-month and…

In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, we’re featuring an episode from our webinar series, Hotel Moment Deep Dive. Revinator Anisha Yadav, VP of Customer and Product Marketing, and Jennifer Hill, VP of Commercial Strategy at Kalibri Labs, review some of the latest data from the hospitality landscape, including key U.S. hotel demand…

Alexandria, Va. – The GBTA Foundation, the cause-led arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), just unveiled its Sustainable Business Travel Transition Pathway yesterday at the GBTA Sustainability Summit, which gathered over a hundred travel leaders and sustainability experts from all sides of the industry in Washington, D.C. Business travel is a $1.48 trillion…

From staffing shortages and rising energy costs to the constant pressure of maintaining exceptional guest satisfaction, today’s hotel managers face plenty of challenges. With profit margins often razor-thin, even small innovations can have a significant impact. That’s why solutions that enhance productivity, reduce costs, support staff, and ultimately enrich both the guest journey and the…

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal- ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo- cus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy.…