Personal care is one of the major end users for surfactants. Surfactants are used as ingredients in a variety of products, such as foaming agents, dispersants, emulsifiers, solubilizing agents, cleansers, and conditioners, among others, in the personal care segment. The personal care industry accounted for a healthy share of the global market, in 2018. Consumers are facing numerous skin- and hair-related problems, like eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, ichthyosis, dry hair, scalp diseases, grey hair, dandruff, and premature baldness, among others. This is likely to lead to a growth in demand for personal care products, and consequently to the growth of the surfactant market, across the region.

Spine surgery is one of the fast-growing surgical techniques. It has evolved into one of the major segments of the orthopedic industry. Spinal surgery is traditionally performed as open surgery, wherein a long incision allows a surgeon to access the spinal anatomy of a body.  However, owing to the recent technological advances, the number of minimally invasive procedures has increased significantly, thereby, the report covers minimally invasive procedures, along with the traditional open surgery techniques. The market estimates provided in this report have been derived as a product of average selling price (ASP) and the volume sold in a year.

Wearable technology is an emerging trend that integrates electronics to the daily activities and fits into the changing lifestyles, and can be worn on any part of the body. The ability to connect to the Internet, and enabling data exchange between a network and a device, is the driving factor that leads to the trend of wearable technology. Wearables imply wristbands that are launched by companies like Fitbit, Jawbone, Apple, and act as activity trackers, which has gained significant traction, owing to the boom in the fitness trend across consumers. In fact, the number of wristbands/fitness trackers that monitor heart rate and physical activity increased from 58,000 in 2010 to 22.295 million in 2016. The companies later expanded their market reach by introducing new products, and reported number of devices sold in 2018 to be 13.939 million. The decreased y-o-y sales can be attributed to the increased share of other fitness tracker providers.

These thermostats are termed as 'smart‘, due to the inherent capabilities of being able to communicate with IoT devices within a smart building, ability to learn with AI capabilities, active geofencing features, reduce energy consumption, and ability to communicate with emerging virtual private assistants.Smart thermostats refer to the devices that allow remote connectivity and can be managed through a handheld device, finding its applications in residential sector. These are the devices that are connected and allow remote connectivity in the consumer sector. Therefore, the non-programmable devices, and the devices used to control the appliance temperature in industrial sector are not made a part of the study scope.

Smart metering solutions comprises of meters or modules with communication capabilities (either unidirectional or bidirectional), embedded within the meter or attached to the meter. Smart electricity meters account for the most significant share of the total market, which is expected to witnesses a declining demand, primarily due to decline in volume sale from China, the largest market for these systems. Although the overall market in terms of shipments is declining, the market excluding China is expected to witness substantial growth. Europe is one of the major markets where smart electricity meters are expected to witness opportunities for growth.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Smart Manufacturing are systems that are “fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systems that respond in real time to meet changing demands and conditions in the factory, in the supply network, and customer needs.” The term "smart" encompasses organizations that develop and use data and information throughout the product life cycle, intending to create flexible manufacturing processes that respond rapidly to changes in demand at low cost to the firm, without affecting the efficiency and environment.

The self-storage industry is a sub-sector of the commercial real estate market. The growth in this industry is expected to be positive, during the forecast period, due to the trends of increased urbanization and improved economic outlook, across regions, which have led to new business growth. Although self-storage facilities are widely available in mature market, such as the United States and western Europe, they still remain as a relatively new concept in Asian markets, such as China and India. The prevailing trend in the e-commerce sector, of opening physical stores for pick-up and delivery, also supports the growth of the self storage market. Along with the rising growth of the e-commerce sector across the world, niche service demands, like climate-controlled environment and specialized spaces for sports equipment, across many regions, also provide many growth opportunities, to the global self-storage market (henceforth referred to as the market studied).

Security screening has become an essential, in order to avoid unethical practices and maintain security within public spaces. Airports account for a significant share of demand for security screening solutions, and are expected to continue its dominance over the forecast period, owing to the robust rise in the number of airports and consequent air passenger traffic.  Increased air passenger traffic might lead to a rise in threats to passengers because of the higher chances of unacceptable practices and passenger threats.

The global salt and flavored salts market is segmented into: type and distribution channel. By type, the market is dominated by table salt segment, whereas, formed the largest distribution channel for the sale of salts and flavored salt. The global salts and flavored salts market was valued at USD 1,954.81 million in 2018, and it is projected to reach USD 2437.46 million in 2024. The market is also expected to register a CAGR of 3.83% over the forecast period, 2019-2024.  The strength of distribution channel is high for the salt and flavored salt industry. The suppliers in the market have high reliability on the existing distribution channels for the deeper market penetration and efficient distribution of salt and flavored salts.

Geographically, the market scope covers Canada, for which the market size and forecast value are provided separately. The market size provided in the report has been derived from the revenue generated by products. For estimating the market size of the product, the average selling price (ASP) of a product in the region was multiplied with the sales volume (new sales and replacement rate, based on applicability). While each drug is unique in the way it works in helping patients with diabetes, to keep their condition under control, certain drugs have similar actions and are, thus, grouped in the same class of drugs. The way in which they are administered can also differ, with some medicines taken orally and others injected directly into the blood (insulin and GLP-1).