Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Tunisia, the government put a lockdown in place in mid-March, which required all non-essential stores to close while supermarkets and pharmacies remained open. The lockdown period also required consumers to stay at home, working and learning from home where possible. Tissue and Hygiene in Tunisia...
The COVID-19 pandemic had an immediate and substantial impact on the retailing landscape in Switzerland in 2020. Due to health considerations and government-imposed lockdowns affecting store-based retailing, consumer foodservice, entertainment and inbound tourism, consumer purchasing behaviour and priorities quickly shifted while overall sales...
Store-based retailing was heavily affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, driven by strong double-digits declines in current value sales of a number of non-grocery specialists. These retailers were considered non-essential and remained closed during mandated quarantine closures. The performance of grocery retailers, and non-grocery...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made shoppers in Costa Rica more cautious, prioritizing essential goods and limiting the amount of money spent on other, less essential goods. This has helped some channels such as modern grocery sales to grow solidly this year, while sales in other channels like apparel and electronics have suffered. The switch to...
The impact of COVID-19 on South Korea’s retailing industry varied by channel in 2020. Like many other countries, the growth of e-commerce accelerated in 2020 as the channel acquired a wider consumer base during the early outbreaks of COVID-19 in spring, benefitting from South Korea’s high level of digital connectivity and a strong culture...
In 2020, retail tissue and hygiene in Brazil saw a similar current value growth rate to the increase seen in 2019. Retail tissue and hygiene benefited from its main channels remaining open during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as stockpiling, despite the latter causing advanced sales rather than an actual increase in consumption. AFH tissue...
Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic had a positive impact on tissue and hygiene in the Czech Republic in 2020. This was seen in the stronger retail value growth compared to 2019, driven by increased sales in retail tissue and wipes, notably home care wipes. Retail tissue saw the sharpest increase in growth as tissue products became some of the...
The overall impact of COVID-19 on demand for tissue and hygiene was positive during 2020, with the rate of growth in retail current value sales accelerating. Current value sales of retail tissue surged by almost a quarter during the year, with toilet paper seeing the sharpest acceleration in its rate of retail current value sales growth. Some...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a generally positive impact on sales of tissue and hygiene products in Romania in 2020. This was linked to a much stronger focus on health and wellness among consumers, many of whom were prepared to spend more on these products to protect themselves and their families from the virus. Consequently, wipes was one of...
Retail value sales of tissue and hygiene largely overall benefited from the pandemic in 2020, although categories performed differently depending on whether consumers perceived them to be essential. The announcement of a lockdown in the March by the government in an attempt to control the spread of the virus resulted in consumers adopting...