COVID-19 has caused overall soft drinks consumption in Brazil to decline sharply in 2020. This is primarily due to the economic fallout of the pandemic, with the erosion of purchasing power, a surge in unemployment and heightened uncertainty leading many Brazilians to reduce discretionary spending. At the same time, home seclusion and lockdown...
The emergence of COVID-19 in South Korea is having a major impact on certain soft drinks in 2020, with the effects of the country’s efforts to slow the spread of the virus, such as social distancing measures, the closure of businesses and schools resulting in work and study from home policies, and travel restrictions, negatively influencing...
The most obvious impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sales of soft drinks in Italy during 2020 was the dramatic decline seen in on-trade sales over the course of the year. The principal reason for the slump in on-trade sales of all categories of soft drinks during 2020 was the nationwide lockdown that mandated the shutdown of the country’s...
2020 saw France’s soft drink industry face its biggest crisis in living memory as the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic early in the year foreshadowed a series of events that resulted in catastrophic on-trade sales declines being seen across the board and significant pressure coming on off-trade sales in most categories. Soft Drinks in...
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...
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Poland, the soft drinks market in the country has been considerably affected by measures to curb the spread of the virus, which have included national lockdown and the closure of bars, restaurants, hotels and event venues. The subsequent fall in sales in the on-trade was huge given the lack of dine-in from...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has boosted demand in several categories of soft drinks in Germany. Consumers started to stockpile bottled water and juice, in particular, to ensure supply and minimise the number of trips to the shops. Juice, a category that has suffered from an image of rather unhealthy products containing too much sugar,...
The only soft drink that was stockpiled as a result of COVID-19 was bottled water, as other types of soft drinks are not considered to be essential by most consumers. Bottled water is regarded as an essential purchase by most households because most local consumers do not think that Taiwanese tap water is fit to drink. Even the stockpiling...
The impacts from COVID-19 in Guatemala in 2020 have affected categories in soft drinks in different ways. Some categories have seen a shift from on-trade consumption to at-home consumption (such as seen with carbonates), however other categories did not have notable on-trade sales to start with (for example as seen with sports drinks), therefore...
The overall performance of soft drinks in 2020 has been negatively affected by the general closure of on-trade establishments because of COVID-19 related restrictions. Costa Rica is a recognized global tourist destination, which received close to three million foreigner visitors during 2019. On average, tourists would spend about two weeks...