Uruguay Household Products

Wipes registered both healthy current value and volume growth in Uruguay in 2024. One key factor that contributed to the positive performance was a significant drop in cross-border shopping into Argentina, due to the appreciation of the Argentine peso. There was also a significant decline in smuggli ...

Having exhibited strong growth during the early part of the review period, largely due to increased awareness of hygiene among local consumers due to COVID-19, retail current value sales of dishwashing fell in 2023, but 2024 saw the reversal of most of these losses. Euromonitor International's Dishw ...

Retail current value sales of air care rebounded in 2024, but they continued to decline in constant value terms, albeit at a slower rate than in previous years. Earlier in the review period, air care demand in Uruguay was negatively impacted by cross-border shopping in Argentina, but this trend weak ...

There was a sharp acceleration in retail current value sales of home care in 2024, with a decrease in small and medium-scale smuggling from neighbouring Argentina a key driver. Cross-border smuggling waned as the gap between the official and informal exchange rates in Argentina narrowed, which reduc ...

Retail volume and current value sales of surface care continued to rise at a robust pace in 2024, supported by a decrease in low-level smuggling from Argentina to Uruguay. However, retail constant value sales of surface care continued to decline, albeit at a slower rate than in 2023. Moreover, growt ...

Retail value sales of polishes decreased in both current and constant value sales during both 2024 and the review period as a whole. Although demand was supported by an improving economic environment (most notably a reduction in inflation) and a reduction in smuggling from neighbouring Argentina dur ...

Having exhibited strong growth earlier in the review period, both current and constant retail value sales of toilet care declined in 2024. The waning threat of COVID-19 played a major role in this, as retail constant value sales were lower in 2024 than in 2019. Euromonitor International's Toilet Car ...

The rate of growth in retail current value sales of bleach slowed significantly in 2023. Moreover, both retail constant value sales and retail volume sales declined. Having surged in 2020 due to COVID-19, retail volume sales declined steadily during the remainder of the review period, as the threat ...

There was a significant acceleration in the rate of growth in retail current value sales of laundry care in Uruguay during 2024. In line with the trend observed in the last decade, liquid detergents continued to significantly outperform powder detergents in terms of retail current value sales during ...