On 13 March the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Guatemala and as early as 17 March 2020 the Guatemalan government took several measures to close the country in order to stop the spread of the virus. In the first weeks this resulted in high- and mid-income consumers stockpiling in order to avoid unnecessary trips to the supermarket. Hot...
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Turkey, led to the government implementing strict regulations from 21 March 2020, when a curfew was put in place, non-essential retailers were closed, and on-trade establishments, including cafés, restaurants, and cinemas, shut their doors. On-trade closures is set to result in a high volume decline in foodservice...
All categories of hot drinks, especially other hot drinks, saw an increase in retail demand in the early half of 2020, as consumers stockpiled goods such as coffee and tea during the COVID-19 pandemic. These products benefitted not only from stockpiling, but from consumers spending more time at home during lockdown. Hot Drinks in Finland...
The Azerbaijani government moved to shorten foodservice opening hours on 22 March, before closing all foodservice outlets altogether on 29 March. Some outlets were permitted to reopen on 4 May, but these did not include those in the country’s biggest cities, Baku, Ganja, Sumgayit and Lankaran, where the rates of COVID-19 infection were still...
Singapore’s government has implemented many measures, including a circuit breaker, when citizens worked and studied remotely, in an attempt to curb community transmissions of Coronavirus (COVID-19). The implementation of the circuit breaker encouraged consumers to stockpile goods to ensure supply for use during home seclusion. Stockpiling...
As a result of the impact of COVID-19, off-premise consumption of hot drinks in Argentina plummeted in 2020. Initially, in response to the outbreak, many consumers began stockpiling, thus boosting volume until mid-April. However, consumption later started to decrease as a result of the major economic lockdown, rampant unemployment and reduced...
COVID-19 has had a marked impact on demand patterns and purchasing behaviour in the Spanish hot drinks market in 2020. The closure of restaurants, cafés and bars during the lockdown aimed at containing the spread of the disease led to a dramatic decline in foodservice sales across hot drinks categories in the first half of the year. Hot...
Tea, coffee, and other hot drinks are universally consumed products in India, and as a result retail sales were to some extent insulated from the impact of the pandemic. The end of the first quarter and the entire second quarter of the calendar year saw consumers stockpiling these products, as they wanted to make fewer trips to grocery stores...
COVID-19 had a huge impact on hot drinks in Hong Kong in 2020. On the one hand, on-trade sales of hot drinks experienced a significant loss thanks to a number of measures to fight the coronavirus imposed by the government. In order to comply with the lockdown measures, on-trade outlets like cafés, cafeterias, teahouses and restaurants were...
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, cities and towns adopted closed-off management measures to prevent virus transmission. For consumer foodservice, the outbreak of COVID-19 during the Spring Festival in China had a severe impact on on-trade consumption as the vast majority of outlets had to shut down. Hot Drinks in China report...