China’s demand for Packaged Food has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In the next decade, both production and demand will continue to grow. The Chinese economy maintains a high speed growth which has been stimulated by the consecutive increases of industrial output, import & export, consumer consumption...
The health and wellness trend was already in ascendancy across the globe prior to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The importance of following a healthy lifestyle and diet have been well covered during the health crisis, with many authorities reporting on the increased risks of serious illness and death from underlying conditions such...
COVID-19 has a significant impact on health and wellness in New Zealand during 2020. Ahead of country-wide imposed lockdown, shoppers engaged in what was described as panic buying, with supermarkets and domestic supply chains struggling to keep up. As such, many supermarkets imposed buying restrictions which helped to stabilise demand. Health...
Health and wellness registered overall positive retail current value growth in 2020, with stronger growth in many categories in both health and wellness packaged food and beverages, compared with 2019. The positive performance of health and wellness can be attributed to rising health concerns, which placed a premium on healthier and safer...
In general, COVID-19 had a negative effect on retail current value sales of health and wellness food and beverages in the Philippines during 2020. Health and wellness beverages bore the brunt of this. For example, there was a significant decline in retail current value sales of better for you beverages, as increased consumer awareness of health...
The emerging health and wellness trend in Romania gathered pace in 2020. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic came to influence Romanians’ lifestyle decisions, leading many consumers to seek out products to boost their immune system and wellbeing. As a result, vitamin water, FF fruit/herbal tea and naturally healthy superfruit juice saw much...
In general, most categories of health and wellness products experienced growth in 2020 as retailers benefited from consumer stockpiling during this unprecedented health crisis generated by the onset of COVID-19. Health and Wellness in Vietnam report tracks the developments of health-associated product types and the healthy-option positioning...
Broadly speaking, sales of packaged food are set to see polarisation in 2020 as a direct result of the impact of COVID-19. The Lithuanian government’s rapid response to the onset of the pandemic saw the closure of all shops and businesses, with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies and veterinary pharmacies. In addition, all educational...
In 2020, sales of packaged food in Ireland in retail are expected to perform well, anticipated to post higher current value growth than was seen in 2019. Stockpiling during the early months of lockdown heavily encouraged sales of long-expiry products such as canned vegetables, frozen meat, milk formula or dairy. Packaged Food in Ireland...
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, the Greek government implemented measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020. With the announcement of the lockdown, consumers rushed to stockpile essential packaged food items such as powdered and evaporated milk, frozen processed and shelf stable vegetables, rice, pasta...