Category: Consumer Goods & Retailing
Consumer Goods & Retailing market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Voice of the Consumer: Lifestyles Survey 2025 Key Insights
The Voice of the Consumer: Lifestyles Survey reveals key shifts in consumer values, spending habits and sentiment over the past year. It highlights rising uncertainty, evolving brand loyalty, weakened in-person connections, the growth of generative AI (GenAI) and a reimagined view of luxury. Strateg ... Read More
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Tissue and Hygiene in South Africa
Despite a positive performance in 2024, impressive value growth of tissue and hygiene in South Africa was mainly driven by inflation. South African consumers faced several challenges in the first half of 2024, including political uncertainty, elevated food and fuel prices and high interest rates. An ... Read More
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Retail Tissue in South Africa
Retail tissue in South Africa continued to record solid growth rates in 2024, supported by the essential nature of many of these products. While the country’s unstable economic landscape suppressed consumer affordability and spending towards the end of the review period, sales of retail tissue remai ... Read More
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Menstrual Care in South Africa
Menstrual care in South Africa continued to record strong growth rates in 2024, despite the country experiencing tough economic factors such as high inflation and rising costs in the first half of the year. As a result, this influenced the value performance of menstrual care, with rising costs ensur ... Read More
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Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene in South Africa
Away-from-home tissue in South Africa continued to record solid growth rates in 2024, attributable to rising levels of urbanisation, an increase in tourism activity and the growing foodservice channel under horeca. As the economy continued to stabilise in the second half of 2024, people began to spe ... Read More
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Wipes in South Africa
Wipes in South Africa continued to record strong current value growth in 2024, despite inflation at the beginning of the year pushing up unit prices, thereby placing pressure on consumers. As a result, individuals turned to cost-reducing opportunities. In health and beauty specialists, rewards progr ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in South Africa
Retail adult incontinence in South Africa continued to display double-digit current value growth in 2024, although some of this growth can be attributed to the early inflationary pressures experienced in the first half of the year. Nevertheless, overall demand also continued to rise, driven by an ag ... Read More
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Nappies/Diapers/Pants in South Africa
Nappies/diapers/pants in South Africa continued to record robust value and volume growth in 2024 due to the country’s relatively stable birth rate and the essential nature of these products. Although the category experienced a solid performance over the review period, local consumers have had to ada ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in the United Kingdom
Retail adult incontinence in the UK continued to record strong growth rates in 2024, driven by demographic trends. As the local population is ageing, the occurrence of incontinence is increasing and therefore the demand for accessible products offering protection is growing. However, age is not the ... Read More
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Appliances and Electronics Specialists in Nigeria
Despite Nigeria’s economic difficulties, appliances and electronics specialists remained the preferred purchasing channel for tech products. Inflation and a sharp depreciation of the Naira significantly raised import costs, making appliances and electronics increasingly expensive. In addition, the s ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Switzerland
Leading apparel and footwear specialists such as Chicorée are adopting new services like click and collect and self-checkouts as they look to compete more fiercely with pure e-commerce players. However, the category was impacted by the exit of important retailer Esprit which went bankrupt. This also ... Read More
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Nappies/Diapers/Pants in the United Kingdom
Nappies/diapers/pants in the UK continued to record a positive performance in 2024, although value growth was higher than volume growth due to further price increases. Towards the end of the review period, inflation and the elevated cost of production and raw materials, helped drive up value sales, ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Switzerland
Supermarkets saw a decline in 2024 both in current value terms and in terms of the number of outlets. The decline in value sales was due in part to the decreasing number of outlets with companies restructuring and closing less profitable outlets. However, it was also due to the higher level of price ... Read More
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Direct Selling in Switzerland
Direct selling in Switzerland recorded a slight increase sales in current value terms in 2024, although growth was significantly slower than that seen during the pandemic. Local consumers returned to shopping outside of the home, visiting stores more frequently and using remote sales concepts less o ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in Switzerland
Hypermarkets are much less prevalent in Switzerland with significantly fewer outlets than supermarkets or discounters, or convenience stores. Even though the product variety tends to be higher in hypermarkets, this does not justify the longer trip to reach them for many consumers. Furthermore, their ... Read More
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Discounters in Switzerland
Discounters is a highly popular channel among Swiss consumers and it continued to see strong and stable growth in 2024 due to the ongoing price sensitivity brought on by the recent financial insecurity and strain. Factors such as elevated inflation, lower disposable income, the aftermath of COVID-19 ... Read More
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General Merchandise Stores in Switzerland
General merchandise stores saw a decline in current value terms in 2024 as consumers looked to cut down on non-essential spending (especially on non-grocery products) in the face of price increases, inflation, and financial insecurity. Additionally, some consumers switched to spending on experiences ... Read More
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Appliances and Electronics Specialists in Switzerland
When it comes to appliances and electronics consumers in Switzerland tend to favour quality products with a long lifespan. However, many people chose to investment in new and replacement appliances and electronics in 2023 following the end of the pandemic and as a result there was less call for repl ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in Switzerland
Health and beauty specialists saw strong and steady growth in current value terms in 2024. Sales were boosted by the prevailing health and wellness and fitness trends which continued to be fuelled by the growing popularity of social media. Influencers and marketing have helped to create a growing ma ... Read More
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Wipes in the United Kingdom
During the pandemic, many consumers adopted wipes in the UK as a staple in their lives, with the product considered convenient while also contributing to a higher degree of hygiene, both in the home and on a personal level. Post-pandemic, many local consumers have continued to purchase wipes due to ... Read More
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Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene in the United Kingdom
Greater mobility post-pandemic continued to boost sales of away-from-home tissue in the UK in 2024, ensuring a full recovery to 2019 levels in volume terms. In addition, certain cleaning habits that were adopted during the pandemic remained relevant at the end of the review period, acting as a posit ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Nigeria
Supermarkets in Nigeria continued to build momentum in 2024, benefiting from a mix of expansion into tier cities, digital integration, and value-driven offerings such as loyalty schemes and private label. Retailers like Spar adopted conservative physical expansion strategies, instead focusing on par ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in Switzerland
Home improvement and gardening stores saw a further decline in sales in current value terms in 2024, continuing the downturn in fortunes after the strong growth seen during the pandemic. Consumers still looked to maintain a well-kept home with regular quick and easy fixes, but with the pandemic over ... Read More
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Rx/Reimbursement Adult Incontinence in the United Kingdom
Rx/reimbursement adult incontinence in the UK continued to record volume declines in 2024, due to strong competition from retail adult incontinence. Although the category experienced value growth in 2022 and 2023, this was a result of a strong increase in unit prices, as inflation and the cost of pr ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in Nigeria
In 2024, beauty specialists in Nigeria faced significant headwinds due to rising inflation and the steep depreciation of the naira. These factors led to elevated prices for imported beauty products, dampening consumer spending. However, resilience in skincare, especially products with natural ingred ... Read More
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