Apparel and footwear was hard hit following the outbreak of COVID-19, with value and volume sales plummeting in most categories. Apparel and footwear specialist retailers and other non-essential retailers closed on 13 March following the introduction of a nationwide lockdown and did not reopen until 1 May. In November, a second lockdown was...
The closure of brick-and-mortar stores in the spring as a result of the lockdown negatively impacted apparel and footwear sales in 2020. Customer traffic in shopping centres fell considerably and this continued throughout the year as the autumn brought a second wave of COVID-19 cases. Economic uncertainty and declining consumer confidence...
Apparel and footwear registered severe sales declines in 2020 as the industry found itself on the receiving end of the worst impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, apparel and footwear was one of the consumer goods industries hardest hit by the COVID-19 situation worldwide during 2020 and this certainly applied in Indonesia. Apparel...
After many years of low and stable growth, apparel and footwear suffered a significant decline in both retail volume and current value terms in 2020. This was because of the COVID-19 lockdown in the first half of the year, which saw the closure of the vast majority of physical points of sale, including single and multi-brand stores and shopping...
After seeing static retail volume sales and notable current value growth in 2019, in 2020 apparel and footwear saw a decline in volume terms, along with a slower value decline. With the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in the country in March of this year, the government implemented a hard lockdown. Apparel and Footwear in South Africa...
Apparel and footwear in Germany was strongly impacted throughout 2020 as a result of the pandemic. Due to the fashion-driven and non-essential nature of this market and the strong reliance on store-based retailing in generating revenues for almost all major brands, the disruptions caused by government-imposed lockdowns resulted in the closure...
The negative effects of the pandemic on apparel and footwear in Israel have been many and varied: first, the major distribution channel of apparel and footwear specialist retailers was forced to close during the lockdowns imposed by the government due to being deemed non-essential, whilst some did not return to being fully operational between...
The fast-spreading COVID-19 dampened economic prospects in Turkey in 2020. This resulted in a direct hit to consumer confidence in the second quarter of 2020 following the first case of COVID-19 in March. Like many countries around the world, Turkey implemented lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus, and retail outlets deemed non-essential...
Apparel and footwear in Morocco was seriously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The industry as a whole suffered its worst crisis for several years. In response to the pandemic, the Moroccan government imposed a strict lockdown across the country, which included the closure of all apparel and footwear stores for four months between...
Apparel and footwear suffered significant declines across much of the market in 2020 as a direct result of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown restrictions introduced by the government in an attempt to control the spread of the virus. This resulted in remote working and studying for many Australians, thereby reducing the need to purchase...