The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tunisia was much less pronounced than what was seen in other North African countries during 2020. However, the government did implement a nationwide quarantine lockdown, which saw the consumer foodservice industry completely shuttered for several weeks during spring and early summer. This inevitably had...
Retail hot drinks will perform well overall in response to the pandemic, with volume sales across all the product areas rising notably. Despite having a lenient lockdown, many Latvian consumers have opted to stay at home during 2020, in order to avoid possible contagion of the virus. As a result, consumption opportunities have risen which...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hot drinks overall will benefit as healthy growth is expected as a result. Prior to the pandemic, hot drinks was witnessing declining volume sales, however this is expected to return to positive due to the pandemic. This successful performance is largely due to coffee which has seen its volume...
Hot drinks will perform well overall in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. The main reason for this is due to increased consumption opportunities at home as a result of lockdown. With many consumers remote working or receiving online classes, the demand for hot drinks has increased notably. This has especially been seen in coffee,...
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Serbia, hot drinks retail sales are increasing notably, moving volume sales from a decline in 2019 to positive growth in 2020. This growth is driven from lockdown periods and ongoing home seclusion, with consumers increasing their consumption of hot drinks within the home. This was especially the case when...
COVID-19 has shown two facets of hot drinks in Brazil; the resilience and enduring potential of the market at the retail level, and the fragility of on-trade consumption. The latter declined significantly in 2020, as regional lockdowns forced foodservice outlets across the country to close for almost six months, and consumers were slow to...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a very negative impact on on-trade sales of hot drinks during 2020, although off-trade sales increased in coffee and other hot drinks over the course of the year. The main reason for the dramatic declines seen in sales of all categories of hot drinks in the foodservice channel over the course of the year can be attributed...
Following the relatively stagnant growth in 2019, hot drinks in the Czech Republic is expected to post much more dynamic growth in 2020 in current retail value terms. A shift from on-trade to off-trade was evident in 2020, as on-trade sales are expected to sharply drop due to the shutdown of foodservice outlets for over two months. Furthermore,...
South Africa was in a recession already prior to the start of COVID-19. The arrival of the pandemic exacerbated the economic downturn, causing real GDP to contract steeply in 2020. Therefore, in regard to hot drinks, there was limited stockpiling as disposable incomes fell. Additionally, hot drinks are deemed as essential goods and therefore...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the French hot drinks market was complex and resulted in some divergent outcomes. In particular, significant differences were noted between the retail and foodservice channels. More specifically, retail sales of hot drinks recorded positive growth while on-trade sales recorded very steep declines. Hot...