In Germany, food is rising while household goods fall.

Households are cautious on every stated measure. What they actually bought moved both ways.

3 of 3 stated-position measures sit on the cautious side of their own long-run norms, while 4 of 8 realised-behaviour measures rose year on year.

Coverage

Brands in the Germany edition

Brands appearing in this edition's measurements and analysis. Being named is not the same as having an individual finding, and coverage varies by brand.

Retail & Grocery

Aldi
Edeka
Kaufland
Lidl
Rewe

5 named in published findings

Finance & fintech

bunq
Commerzbank
Deutsche Bank
N26
Qonto
Revolut
Sparkasse
Trade Republic

8 named in published findings

Travel, leisure & hospitality

Center Parcs
Deutsche Bahn
Lufthansa
TUI
Ryanair

4 named in published findings · 1 monitored, no publishable result this edition

A name marked ° is in the edition's measurement universe and produced no publishable finding this quarter — a withheld basket member, an advertiser page that returned the provider's own zero state, or an entity that could not be resolved. It is not a result.

In the complete report

What the complete report reveals

Three findings in the Germany edition name brands against each other. The report answers:

Sparkasse, Revolut, N26, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Qonto and bunq all appear in the finance app chart, read to depth 200. Where does each one sit against the others?
2 financial brands are readable on search attention this quarter. Which way does the evidence say they moved, and where does it decline to say?
Commerzbank, Allianz, Revolut, Sparkasse and others were all running advertising this quarter across finance, retail and travel. At what relative scale, and who was quiet?
Total retail volume and online volume parted company this period. By how much, in which direction, and against what base?

The questions are listed here. The answers are in the report.

Contents

Inside the Germany report

The read

Germany in three minutes

How Cadence reads a market

The market

Where does this market sit against its own history, and what changed this quarter?

Retail & Grocery

Which grocers gained attention, which lost it, and how did retail volumes move alongside?

Finance & fintech

Which financial brands are gaining or losing search attention, and where do the measured digital challengers sit against the established banks?

Travel, leisure & hospitality

Did realised travel activity hold up, and what moved alongside it?

What Germany actually bought

Evidence & method

What was measured, over what period, and what the evidence declines to claim.

13 governed objects · 8 independent findings · 7 sources · 9 quarters of history

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Examine the competitive landscape

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Build market-specific hypotheses

Use behavioural context to inform how a brand might communicate in a market, with the limits of each observation stated.

Work from evidence

Inspect the sources, observation periods and limitations behind every figure, including what was measured and withheld.

These are product capabilities. Cadence makes descriptive claims about how a market currently behaves; it does not forecast demand, measure market share or establish causation.

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