Category: Retailing
Retailing market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Supermarkets in Sweden
Supermarkets in Sweden Supermarkets in Sweden were at the forefront of the battle against inflation surges in Sweden towards the end of the review period. This is unsurprising as supermarkets is the highest-value channel within grocery retailers in the country. In 2023, the channel posted high singl ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in Sweden
Home Products Specialists in Sweden Home products specialists in Sweden were impacted by the lowered rates of new construction, which started to decrease in 2022. In 2023, the rate of new construction reached its lowest point since 2011, with only 25,500 new houses starting construction, compared to ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in Sweden
Hypermarkets in Sweden Like other types of grocery retailers, hypermarkets in Sweden were impacted directly by historically high inflation, which reached high single-digit rates in 2022 and 2023. As a result, consumers became more price-sensitive and they started to look for best possible deals in t ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Sweden
Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Sweden Apparel and footwear specialists in Sweden had to deal with unstable macroeconomic and geopolitical environments towards the end of the review period. The high inflation rates in 2022 and 2023 forced consumers to prioritise purchases of essential products, ... Read More
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Retail E-Commerce in Sweden
Retail E-Commerce in Sweden Retail e-commerce in Sweden, after almost a decade of double-digit retail current value growth, peaking over 2019-2021, witnessed stabilisation or correction towards the end of the review period. Following a small drop in 2022, retail e-commerce current value sales saw a ... Read More
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E-Commerce in Soft Drinks
E-Commerce in Soft Drinks E-commerce represents a small but thriving global retail channel for soft drinks. This briefing examines Euromonitor International’s e-commerce data across 15 markets, focusing on soft drinks brands’ performance in 2023. Leading brands, categories and retailers for online b ... Read More
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Inflation in Packaged Foods: Causes and Implications of Price Growth
Inflation in Packaged Foods: Causes and Implications of Price Growth Global packaged food sales are set to exceed USD3 trillion in 2024, with volumes growing over the forecast period. Even with inflationary pressures moderating, each grocery category (staple foods, dairy products and alternatives, s ... Read More
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World Market for Retail
World Market for Retail During 2023, global retail sales posted a slight recovery, despite inflationary pressures. Broader trends favoured shifts to value-focused retail channels such as discounters, while e-commerce also continued to grow – albeit more slowly than prior to the pandemic. Loyalty pla ... Read More
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Where Consumers Shop for Personal Accessories
Where Consumers Shop for Personal Accessories Global sales of personal accessories rebounded in 2023, driven largely by price increases due to high inflation, with volume sales posting a more modest increase. Retail offline dominates global personal accessories sales; however, e-commerce gained sign ... Read More
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Hypermarkets in Italy
Hypermarkets in Italy Although more stable than in the previous year, inflation rates still remained high in Italy in 2023 with the price of food and other grocery and non-grocery items continuing to rise. In the context of high inflation, hypermarkets continued to struggle through 2023, losing shar ... Read More
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Convenience Retailers in Italy
Convenience Retailers in Italy The geopolitical developments of 2022 and 2023 have had a big impact on retail in Italy. Russia's war in Ukraine continued in 2023 with no sign of resolution at the time of writing, while the emergence of further instability in other parts of the world have also create ... Read More
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Discounters in Italy
Discounters in Italy Despite the easing of inflationary pressures in Italy over 2023, price increases and thus inflation rates remained high in the country. Therefore, price and value remained the most pressing concerns for many consumers when choosing to shop for their groceries. This price sensiti ... Read More
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Retail in Poland
Retail in Poland High inflation led to a deterioration in consumer purchasing power in 2023 with many consumers who had the additional financial burden of mortgages and other loans being particularly badly affected. Instalments increased significantly as a result of rising interest rates in 2021-202 ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in Poland
Home Products Specialists in Poland Despite substantial price increases amidst soaring inflation, overall current value sales growth for home products specialists in 2023 was slightly weaker than in 2022. Trade in the two largest channels of home improvement and gardening stores and homewares and ho ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in Poland
Health and Beauty Specialists in Poland In 2023, health and beauty specialists recorded strong growth in value sales. This channel has thus far been relatively resistant to the rising cost crisis in the country. This is influenced by its wide range of products and rapid response to the changing need ... Read More
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Direct Selling in Italy
Direct Selling in Italy After two years of solid growth, direct selling experienced a decline in current value terms in 2023. However, performances varied within direct selling in 2023 with some categories continuing to perform well in 2023, but especially those with a lower penetration. Indeed, foo ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Italy
Supermarkets in Italy Supermarkets is the grocery retailers channel with the highest penetration in Italy and it saw moderate growth in current value terms in 2023 as inflation started to show signs of stabilising, albeit prices continued to rise. Aside from the impact of inflation, the growing impo ... Read More
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General Merchandise Stores in Italy
General Merchandise Stores in Italy General merchandise stores recorded dynamic double-digit growth in current value terms in 2022 with department stores and variety stores both seeing elevated sales. This performance was backed by a renewed sense of optimism as concerns around the pandemic softened ... Read More
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Convenience Retailers in Poland
Convenience Retailers in Poland Convenience stores recorded slower value dynamics than overall retail in 2023. Higher prices in this channel stimulated a consumer shift towards discounters and supermarkets. The situation in the market favoured retail chains that can afford to offer attractive promot ... Read More
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Retail E-Commerce in Italy
Retail E-Commerce in Italy Retail e-commerce in Italy posted a relatively moderate increase in current value terms in 2023, with growth largely driven by foods, beverages and beauty products. After a steep increase in market penetration of fast moving consumer goods sold through e-commerce in the pa ... Read More
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Retail in Italy
Retail in Italy High inflation rates continued to negatively affect producers, distributors, and most importantly consumers in 2023, despite inflation being slightly more stable than in the previous year. Indeed, as issues in the supply chain, logistical space, and labour market eased inflationary p ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Poland
Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Poland Apparel and footwear specialists recorded moderate value sales growth in 2023. A positive impact on the channel is the rapidly changing fashion that drives the sale of fast fashion, and even the visible trend of ultra-fast fashion, where consumers buy cloth ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in Italy
Health and Beauty Specialists in Italy Health and beauty specialists saw moderate growth in current value terms in 2023, although this was largely the result of price inflation rather than an increase in demand. When it comes to pharmacies small and independent players account for most sales and mos ... Read More
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Direct Selling in Poland
Direct Selling in Poland In 2023, direct selling registered marginal growth in retail value sales. After a decline in 2022, direct selling returned to positive if marginal growth. The cost-of-living crisis proved beneficial for the industry as more people sought to be hired as consultants to earn ex ... Read More
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General Merchandise Stores in Poland
General Merchandise Stores in Poland In 2023, general merchandise stores recorded strong current value sales growth. Much of this stemmed from the strong performance of variety stores, which in keeping with its performance throughout the review period, recorded high double-digit growth in current va ... Read More
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