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Subject: Market size Data on gift cards, tickets, money transfers, telephone recharge
Category: Business and Money > Advertising and Marketing
Asked by: philo888-ga
List Price: $120.00

Posted: 21 May 2006 01:42 PDT
Expires: 20 Jun 2006 01:42 PDT
Question ID: 730912

I need the following DATA for PRODUCTS globally for the last five years. Data must come from credible sources which must be provided: PRODUCTS: electronic gift cards, money transfers, prepaid telephone recharge, event tickets, lottery tickets DATA: size in $, growth rate %, average transaction value Can anyone help?
Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 22 May 2006 16:24 PDT Hello philo888-ga, My preliminary research shows that grouping ?electronic gift cards, money transfers and prepaid telephone recharge? might make sense since these are all Stored Value Cards or Instruments. I?ve found some market research reports for this field but it doesn?t look like a yearly breakout will be available for any/all of them. I?m also wondering what you meant by ?globally for the last five years.? Market research reports tend to be available for a limited range of geographic areas. This is a new market and standard metrics have not yet emerged. I suggest that I research everything available for the Stored Value Cards industry in the past five years and provide you with whatever market information is available. Will this suit your needs? Have you already researched this topic? What did you come up with? I don?t want to duplicate any work that you might have completed on your own. "Event tickets" and "lottery tickets" seem to be very different categories of products from the Stored Value Cards and from each other. I suggest that you post separate new questions for each to maximize your chances of getting an answer. As you have the question posted, it?s not likely that you will get an answer because if a researcher can?t find even one part of the answer, they will not be able to post a final answer. In addition, if you split the question to ask about each product separately multiple researchers can be working on your questions at the same time and you are likely to get at least partial answers if complete information is not available for all the products you?re interested in. I look forward to your clarification. ~ czh ~
Clarification of Question by philo888-ga on 22 May 2006 17:14 PDT Hi CZH, a) I'm fundamentally looking for a table that shows the following credibly sourced and referenced for the global market: 2000 2002 2005 Growth Rate Number of transactions X Y Z GR Money transfers prepaid: gift cards prepaid: telephony Tickets: event Tickets: lottery Tickets: airline Total $ volume A B C GR b) I've been able to find some data on the prepaid gift cards and prepaid telephony - even then not from terribly credible sources. I didn't want to spend thousands on the reports that seemed to have the information. Do you have access to these? c) I am having real trouble getting data on ticketing (event, airline and and lottery tickets). d) i am also having real trouble getting something credible for money transfers outside annual report tertiary source type stuff. This should be relatively easy to find If you can populate the table with definitive, credible answers for my table i'm really happy to pay up to $375 I need the information today though. Please help...
Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 22 May 2006 19:38 PDT Hello philo888-ga, Thank you for the clarification. Since you?ve indicated that you need the information as soon as possible I?m unlocking this question. Maybe another researcher has access to industry information that is not readily available on the open Web. I think bits and pieces of what you?re looking for are available but putting your table together will be a great challenge. If the question remains unlocked I will post my partial findings and suggest that you post a question for me priced according to the value of what I?ve found. I will have some material for you later tonight. Wishing you well. ~ czh ~
Clarification of Question by philo888-ga on 22 May 2006 20:21 PDT Thanks for your help
Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 22 May 2006 23:27 PDT Hello again philo888-ga, As I promised earlier, I?ve posted some of the statistics I found to help you with filling in your table as a Comment below. If any of it is useful to you, please post a new question to my attention at the appropriate price so that I can get paid. Best wishes for your project. ~ czh ~
Clarification of Question by philo888-ga on 22 May 2006 23:31 PDT Hi can't see the results...please can you post
Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 23 May 2006 09:35 PDT Hello again philo888-ga, I don't know why you can't see the information I posted in the Comments. Here is the same information. Good luck. ~ czh ~ ------------------------------ Hello again philo888-ga, It is very difficult to research your question because you have not explained how the six categories you?ve listed are inter-related in your thinking. It?s also not clear if you?re looking for volume of sales by item sold or by dollar value ? or both. It would take focused research to try to find information about each of the categories you?ve listed. The resources I listed under general information are mostly from market research organizations. You can review these sites to try to find relevant statistics for your categories. I'd need additional information to be able to do any meaningful research on your "ticket" categories. I hope the material I found will be useful to you. All the best. ~ czh ~ GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STORED VALUE CARD INDUSTRY http://www.atmmarketplace.com/research.htm?article_id=24897&pavilion=41&step=story The Stored Value Market in 2006 The debit card market has seen dramatic changes over the last few years and 2005 was no exception. The U.S. retail gift card volume topped $18.6 billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation, and with more hybrid debit-card products hitting the marketplace, 2006 promises to be a banner year for both signature- and PIN-based branded stored-value cards. ------------------------------------------------- http://www.cfsinnovation.com/document/svcpaper2.pdf Stored Value Cards Overview of the SVC Market Product Description Like traditional debit cards, stored value cards (SVCs) utilize magnetic stripe technology to store information and track funds. However, because they are prepaid, SVCs differ from traditional account-based debit cards in that they have limited risk of overdrafts while providing nearly immediate liquidity for consumers. Mercator Advisory Group measures the dollar volume loaded onto ?prepaid instruments,? which includes SVCs of all kinds, as well as all prepaid non-card products, such as prepaid wireless telephone services. Under this rubric, Mercator estimates that $157 billion was loaded onto prepaid instruments in 2003. Of that, the largest segments were the gift card and government program card segments, with each accounting for 25% of the total. According to Mercator, payroll and other employee benefits cards accounted for 17% of the total, while general spending products accounted for 15% (Sloane, 2004). ------------------------------------------------- http://mercatoradvisorygroup.com/index.php?doc=research Mercator Advisory Group offers research and advisory memberships that offer unparalleled, independent and objective analysis into the use of technology and its impact on business process within the consumer payments industry. ------------------------------------------------- http://www.pelorus-group.com/pelreprt.htm The PELORUS Group ? Reports -- STORED VALUE: New Markets, New Growth -- STORED VALUE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE -- STORED VALUE: Transforming The Payments Industry MONEY TRANSFERS/REMITTANCES http://www.pelorus-group.com/Reports%20-%20covers/Prepaid%20Wireline%20-%202004.htm NORTH AMERICAN PREPAID CARDS: Wireline Markets In Transition Prepaid Calling Cards and Dialtone Opportunities and Strategies through 2008 ------------------------------------------------- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060428/bs_ibd_ibd/2006428managing Moving Money In A Borderless World For one thing, the world remittance market is big business. It's worth about $280 billion annually, according to the World Bank. The U.S.-Mexico corridor alone accounts for $20 billion and is growing 25% a year. PREPAID: GIFT CARDS http://www.trintech.com/GiftCardReportOverview.html European Gift Card Research European Guide to Maximising Revenues from Gift and Stored Value Cards ------------------------------------------------- http://www.thewisemarketer.com/features/read.asp?id=84 Should we believe the hype about prepaid cards? According to Tower Group, gift card sales reached US$45 billion with banks generating US$3 billion in sales in 2004. By 2007 sales of bank-issued gift cards will exceed US$31 billion or over half of gift card volume for that year. ------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/pf35775-prepaid-card.html The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market In our new report, The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market, Packaged Facts assesses the growth and diversification of the consumer gift card market, which the report estimates at $35.3 billion in 2005. ------------------------------------------------- http://www.towergroup.com/research/index.jsp http://www.towergroup.com/research/content/search/search_report_exhibit.jsp?simpleKeywords=gift+card&searchType=newSimple&simpleResearchFormatId=10&reportSort=sunriseDate&exhibitSort=sunriseDate& TowerGroup is the world's leading research and consulting firm focused on the global financial services industry. Search for topics of interest. ------------------------------------------------- http://promomagazine.com/incentives/news/giftcards_apparel_022206/ Gift Cards Outpace Apparel as Gifts of Choice Packaged Facts projects that the overwhelming popularity of gift cards across generations will continue to drive card sales upwards of 5% annually to surpass the $47 billion mark by 2010. Holiday season sales of gift cards alone jumped from $17.34 billion in 2004 to approximately $18.48 billion in 2005, and sales are expected to continue to climb as consumers turn to them as the perfect gift for all occasions. TICKETS: LOTTERY http://www.scigames.com/sgcorp/industryinfoLottery.asp Lotteries Around the World (lots of statistics)
Clarification of Question by philo888-ga on 23 May 2006 15:29 PDT Thanks CZH I will review and see if this helps
Clarification of Question by philo888-ga on 24 May 2006 17:05 PDT CZH please will you lock off the question, place your answers as the response, that way I can get you paid.

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Subject: Re: Market size Data on gift cards, tickets, money transfers, telephone recharge
Answered By: czh-ga on 24 May 2006 19:34 PDT
Rated: 4 out of 5 stars

Hello again philo888-ga,

Thank you for taking my answer at an adjusted price. I'm glad I was
able to help even though I couldn't find all the information you're
looking for. I think it might be easier to approach this project if
you segmented the question into more manageable pieces. That way
several researchers can work on it at the same time and they might be
able to come up with additional information. I hope you'll be back
with future research projects.
~ czh ~



It is very difficult to research your question because you have not
explained how the six categories you?ve listed are inter-related in
your thinking. It?s also not clear if you?re looking for volume of
sales by item sold or by dollar value ? or both. It would take focused
research to try to find information about each of the categories
you?ve listed.

I hope the material I found will be useful to you. 

All the best.

~ czh ~

====================================================
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STORED VALUE CARD INDUSTRY
====================================================

http://www.atmmarketplace.com/research.htm?article_id=24897&pavilion=41&step=story
The Stored Value Market in 2006

The debit card market has seen dramatic changes over the last few
years and 2005 was no exception. The U.S. retail gift card volume
topped $18.6 billion last year, according to the National Retail
Federation, and with more hybrid debit-card products hitting the
marketplace, 2006 promises to be a banner year for both signature- and
PIN-based branded stored-value cards.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.cfsinnovation.com/document/svcpaper2.pdf
Stored Value Cards

Overview of the SVC Market 
Product Description 
Like traditional debit cards, stored value cards (SVCs) utilize
magnetic stripe technology to store information and track funds.
However, because they are prepaid, SVCs differ from  traditional
account-based debit cards in that they have limited risk of overdrafts
while providing nearly immediate liquidity for consumers.

Mercator Advisory Group measures the dollar volume loaded onto
?prepaid instruments,? which includes SVCs of all kinds, as well as
all prepaid non-card  products, such as prepaid wireless telephone
services. Under this rubric, Mercator estimates that $157 billion was
loaded onto prepaid instruments in 2003. Of that, the largest segments
were the gift card and government program card segments,  with each
accounting for 25% of the total. According to Mercator, payroll and
other employee benefits cards accounted for 17% of the total, while
general spending products accounted for 15% (Sloane, 2004).

-------------------------------------------------

http://mercatoradvisorygroup.com/index.php?doc=research
Mercator Advisory Group offers research and advisory memberships that
offer unparalleled, independent and objective analysis into the use of
technology and its impact on business process within the consumer
payments industry.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.pelorus-group.com/pelreprt.htm
The PELORUS Group ? Reports

 -- STORED VALUE: New Markets, New Growth
 -- STORED VALUE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
 -- STORED VALUE: Transforming The Payments Industry


=============================
MONEY TRANSFERS / REMITTANCES
=============================

http://www.pelorus-group.com/Reports%20-%20covers/Prepaid%20Wireline%20-%202004.htm
NORTH AMERICAN PREPAID CARDS: Wireline Markets In Transition
Prepaid Calling Cards and Dialtone Opportunities and Strategies through 2008

-------------------------------------------------

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060428/bs_ibd_ibd/2006428managing
Moving Money In A Borderless World

For one thing, the world remittance market is big business. It's worth
about $280 billion annually, according to the World Bank. The
U.S.-Mexico corridor alone accounts for $20 billion and is growing 25%
a year.


===================
PREPAID: GIFT CARDS
===================

http://www.trintech.com/GiftCardReportOverview.html
European Gift Card Research
European Guide to Maximising Revenues from Gift and Stored Value Cards

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.thewisemarketer.com/features/read.asp?id=84
Should we believe the hype about prepaid cards?

According to Tower Group, gift card sales reached US$45 billion with
banks generating US$3 billion in sales in 2004. By 2007 sales of
bank-issued gift cards will exceed US$31 billion or over half of gift
card volume for that year.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/pf35775-prepaid-card.html
The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market

In our new report, The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market, Packaged
Facts assesses the growth and diversification of the consumer gift
card market, which the report estimates at $35.3 billion in 2005.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.towergroup.com/research/index.jsp 
http://www.towergroup.com/research/content/search/search_report_exhibit.jsp?simpleKeywords=gift+card&searchType=newSimple&simpleResearchFormatId=10&reportSort=sunriseDate&exhibitSort=sunriseDate&
TowerGroup is the world's leading research and consulting firm focused
on the global financial services industry. Search for topics of
interest.

-------------------------------------------------

http://promomagazine.com/incentives/news/giftcards_apparel_022206/
Gift Cards Outpace Apparel as Gifts of Choice

Packaged Facts projects that the overwhelming popularity of gift cards
across generations will continue to drive card sales upwards of 5%
annually to surpass the $47 billion mark by 2010. Holiday season sales
of gift cards alone jumped from $17.34 billion in 2004 to
approximately $18.48 billion in 2005, and sales are expected to
continue to climb as consumers turn to them as the perfect gift for
all occasions.


================
TICKETS: LOTTERY
================

http://www.scigames.com/sgcorp/industryinfoLottery.asp
Lotteries Around the World (lots of statistics)


===============
SEARCH STRATEGY
===============

market research stored value cards

philo888-ga rated this answer: 4 out of 5 stars

Comments

Subject: Re: Market size Data on gift cards, tickets, money transfers, telephone recharge
From: politicalguru-ga on 21 May 2006 01:53 PDT

DDear Philo,

I recommend that you'll divide your question (post a separate question
for each item). This would help you get an answer effectively.

Subject: Re: Market size Data on gift cards, tickets, money transfers, telephone recharge
From: czh-ga on 22 May 2006 23:30 PDT

Hello again philo888-ga,

It is very difficult to research your question because you have not
explained how the six categories you?ve listed are inter-related in
your thinking. It?s also not clear if you?re looking for volume of
sales by item sold or by dollar value ? or both. It would take focused
research to try to find information about each of the categories
you?ve listed. The resources I listed under general information are
mostly from market research organizations. You can review these sites
to try to find relevant statistics for your categories.

I'd need additional information to be able to do any meaningful
research on your "ticket" categories.

I hope the material I found will be useful to you.

All the best.

~ czh ~

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STORED VALUE CARD INDUSTRY

http://www.atmmarketplace.com/research.htm?article_id=24897&pavilion=41&step=story
The Stored Value Market in 2006

The debit card market has seen dramatic changes over the last few
years and 2005 was no exception. The U.S. retail gift card volume
topped $18.6 billion last year, according to the National Retail
Federation, and with more hybrid debit-card products hitting the
marketplace, 2006 promises to be a banner year for both signature- and
PIN-based branded stored-value cards.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.cfsinnovation.com/document/svcpaper2.pdf
Stored Value Cards
Overview of the SVC Market
Product Description
Like traditional debit cards, stored value cards (SVCs) utilize
magnetic stripe technology to
store information and track funds. However, because they are prepaid,
SVCs differ from
traditional account-based debit cards in that they have limited risk
of overdrafts while
providing nearly immediate liquidity for consumers.

Mercator Advisory Group measures the dollar volume loaded onto
?prepaid instruments,? which includes SVCs of all kinds, as well as
all prepaid non-card products, such as prepaid wireless telephone
services. Under this rubric, Mercator estimates that $157 billion was
loaded onto prepaid instruments in 2003. Of that, the largest segments
were the gift card and government program card segments, with each
accounting for 25% of the total. According to Mercator, payroll and
other employee benefits cards accounted for 17% of the total, while
general spending products accounted for 15% (Sloane, 2004).

-------------------------------------------------

http://mercatoradvisorygroup.com/index.php?doc=research
Mercator Advisory Group offers research and advisory memberships that
offer unparalleled, independent and objective analysis into the use of
technology and its impact on business process within the consumer
payments industry.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.pelorus-group.com/pelreprt.htm
The PELORUS Group ? Reports

-- STORED VALUE: New Markets, New Growth
-- STORED VALUE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
-- STORED VALUE: Transforming The Payments Industry

MONEY TRANSFERS/REMITTANCES

http://www.pelorus-group.com/Reports%20-%20covers/Prepaid%20Wireline%20-%202004.htm
NORTH AMERICAN PREPAID CARDS: Wireline Markets In Transition
Prepaid Calling Cards and Dialtone Opportunities and Strategies through 2008

-------------------------------------------------

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060428/bs_ibd_ibd/2006428managing
Moving Money In A Borderless World

For one thing, the world remittance market is big business. It's worth
about $280 billion annually, according to the World Bank. The
U.S.-Mexico corridor alone accounts for $20 billion and is growing 25%
a year.

PREPAID: GIFT CARDS

http://www.trintech.com/GiftCardReportOverview.html
European Gift Card Research
European Guide to Maximising Revenues from Gift and Stored Value Cards

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.thewisemarketer.com/features/read.asp?id=84
Should we believe the hype about prepaid cards?

According to Tower Group, gift card sales reached US$45 billion with
banks generating US$3 billion in sales in 2004. By 2007 sales of
bank-issued gift cards will exceed US$31 billion or over half of gift
card volume for that year.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/pf35775-prepaid-card.html
The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market
In our new report, The U.S. Prepaid and Gift Card Market, Packaged
Facts assesses the growth and diversification of the consumer gift
card market, which the report estimates at $35.3 billion in 2005.

-------------------------------------------------

http://www.towergroup.com/research/index.jsp
http://www.towergroup.com/research/content/search/search_report_exhibit.jsp?simpleKeywords=gift+card&searchType=newSimple&simpleResearchFormatId=10&reportSort=sunriseDate&exhibitSort=sunriseDate&
TowerGroup is the world's leading research and consulting firm focused
on the global financial services industry. Search for topics of
interest.

-------------------------------------------------

http://promomagazine.com/incentives/news/giftcards_apparel_022206/
Gift Cards Outpace Apparel as Gifts of Choice
Packaged Facts projects that the overwhelming popularity of gift cards
across generations will continue to drive card sales upwards of 5%
annually to surpass the $47 billion mark by 2010. Holiday season sales
of gift cards alone jumped from $17.34 billion in 2004 to
approximately $18.48 billion in 2005, and sales are expected to
continue to climb as consumers turn to them as the perfect gift for
all occasions.

TICKETS: LOTTERY

http://www.scigames.com/sgcorp/industryinfoLottery.asp
Lotteries Around the World (lots of statistics)

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