Sales of sweet biscuits, snack bars, and fruit snacks in Slovenia are projected to show positive volume growth in 2025, driven by increasing consumer demand for convenient, nutritious, and protein-enriched options. Snack bars, in particular, continue to benefit from this trend due to their portable, ...

Ice cream consumption in Slovenia is on the rise, with solid volume growth anticipated for 2025. While the market is showing signs of maturity, it continues to avoid stagnation by focusing on value-added differentiation. Brands are increasingly offering high-quality, premium products at accessible p ...

Retail volume sales of sugar confectionery in Slovenia are expected to remain stable in 2025, despite EU-driven political and health-related pressures regarding sugar consumption - particularly concerning front-of-pack labelling. While these initiatives have yet to significantly alter consumer behav ...

Retail sales of snacks in Slovenia are set to increase in current value terms in 2025, driven by a combination of favourable economic conditions and shifting consumer trends. Demand is being driven by rising wages, easing inflation, and a robust rebound in tourism, with tourist arrivals soaring duri ...

Retail sales of chocolate confectionery in Slovenia are expected to rise significantly in current value terms in 2025, primarily driven by increasing unit prices resulting from global cocoa shortages. These shortfalls have elevated production costs, which manufacturers have passed on to retailers an ...

Retail volume sales of gum in Slovenia are expected to see slightly accelerated growth in 2025, supported by increasingly busy lifestyles, rising retail footfall, a rebound in tourism, and more frequent impulse purchases. Chewing gum continues to dominate the category, largely due to its perceived f ...

Sales of savoury snacks in Slovenia are projected to grow in both volume and value terms in 2025, as global brands expand their presence into smaller markets with premium, well-known products. Meanwhile, local and regional brands are adapting to a maturing market by producing products that are suita ...

The Slovenia passenger cars market in 2023 reflected a balanced mix of traditional and alternative fuel vehicles, with new registrations still dominated by petrol and diesel cars, though hybrid and electric models gained increasing importance. The share of new passenger cars with alternative fuel en ...

Total volume sales of alcoholic drinks in Slovenia rose moderately in 2024, albeit slightly faster than in 2023. Meanwhile, total current value sales increased strongly, if at a slower rate than in 2023. While the high rates of inflation in 2022 and 2023 slowed appreciably in 2024, product prices st ...

Total volume sales of wine in Slovenia increased, albeit modestly, in 2024. Nonetheless, wine continued to benefit from the perception among many local consumers that it is a more natural alcoholic drink. As a result, there was a significant consumer shift towards wine over the review period, albeit ...

Total volume sales of spirits in Slovenia continued to rise moderately in 2024. Despite the maturity of the most robust, with the exception of “other” distilled beverages and cream-based liqueurs, all spirits categories registered positive total volume sales growth in 2024. Some niche spirits, which ...

RTDs in Slovenia registered moderate total volume sales growth in 2023 and 2024, following fast growth in 2021 and 2022. This indicates the category’s good health as it still maintains significant growth potential despite the strong market penetration of dominant malt-based RTDs. The very wide prese ...

Despite moderate price increases amidst lingering inflationary pressure, beer in Slovenia registered moderate total retail volume growth in 2024. Beer is a highly popular beverage when socialising, benefiting significantly from abundant and sophisticated global advertising and promotion campaigns, e ...

Total volume and current value sales of cider/perry in Slovenia increased dynamically in 2024. Significant consumer demand for the competitively-priced Somersby brand by Carlsberg resulted in very fast growth for regular cider/perry. Despite lingering upward pressure on product prices due to the eff ...

Cigarettes registered a further fall in volume sales in Slovenia in 2024. Smoking prevalence continued to fall as consumers safeguarded their health and also due to a pronounced consumer shift towards reduced harm products, particularly heated tobacco products. Those who continued to smoke cigarette ...

Smoking prevalence decline continued to take a toll on the performance of cigars and cigarillos in Slovenia in 2024, with volume sales falling. Consumers are increasing safeguarding their health and avoiding smoking. On top of this, Slovenian consumers, known for their frugality, are less intereste ...

Both e-vapour products and heated tobacco registered growth in Slovenia in 2024. When young consumers now try tobacco for the first time, they are more likely to try vaping than cigarettes. As such, there was modest growth for e-vapor products. In addition, there was a pronounced consumer shift in f ...

Overall, there was a fall in volume sales in tobacco in Slovenia in 2024, as smoking prevalence continued to fall and consumers increasingly safeguarded their health. This decline was seen in traditional tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos, and pipe tobacco. The only except ...

We lowered our 2025 GDP growth forecast for Slovenia by 1.2ppts to just 0.8% due to a large surprise contraction in Q1. We expect domestic demand to be the main growth driver, while net trade will be a drag. An escalation in trade tensions, a weaker labour market, and households saving rather than s ...

Persistently low birth rates remained a significant challenge for Slovenia’s baby and child-specific products market in 2024. Young families are increasingly postponing parenthood, often prioritising career development or grappling with economic uncertainty - factors exacerbated by recent inflationa ...

New product innovation, rooted in the latest scientific advancements, continued to be a key driver of growth in Slovenia’s hair care market in 2024. Slovenian consumers are increasingly drawn to high-performance hair care brands and specialised formulations that address specific hair and scalp conce ...

Mass beauty and personal care continues to perform steadily in Slovenia, achieving moderate current value growth in 2024. This has been largely supported by rising prices - an ongoing effect of recent inflationary pressures that are now beginning to ease. Between 2022 and 2023, double-digit price in ...

Growth in the Slovenian fragrances market slowed in current value terms in 2024, compared to the two previous years. Inflation began to subside, resulting in more modest price increases. However, price-sensitive consumers continued to economise, often switching from fragrances to deodorants or cutti ...

The beauty and personal care market in Slovenia experienced positive growth in current value terms in 2024, albeit at a slower pace compared to 2022 and 2023. This deceleration was primarily due to a decline in the annual rate of inflation, following a period of significant price hikes that affected ...

The summer of 2024 was one of the hottest on record in Slovenia and the wider region, significantly accelerating consumer demand for sun care products despite rising prices and the lingering effects of inflation. Although sun care remains highly seasonal, longer, hotter summers with persistently hig ...