Outsourcing has transformed virtually every other consumer industry.

Nowadays, we're in a consumer industry where you like something one day and forget about it the next.

This year there are 30 retailers and consumer industry companies and 26 travel and leisure firms.

But it could quickly transform consumer industries such as furniture, textiles and toys.

Our gardens have become repositories for needless, impractical and often idiotic attempts, pushed by the consumer industries, at recreating the indoors outside.