Overall, soft drinks experienced a decline in 2020 in Croatia, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. The biggest hit was experienced by far in the on-trade side, which experienced mandated closures. During the initial strict lockdown period in spring 2020, local consumers were largely restricted from movement and Croatia...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a relatively muted impact on sales of soft drinks in Vietnam during 2020. Although dramatic declines were seen in the on-trade channel over the course of the year, off-trade growth remained positive in most categories. Soft Drinks in Vietnam report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market...
Soft drinks has turned from seeing solid total volume growth in 2019 to seeing a strong total volume decline in 2020. Although the on-trade channel has been hardest-hit, off-trade volume sales have also tuned to slight decline in this year. Soft Drinks in Chile report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market...
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Turkey, restrictions were implemented in the country from 21 March 2020, including a curfew, and the closure of non-essential retailers and foodservice outlets. The closure of on-trade outlets is set to severely impact growth for 2020, with soft drinks predicted to record an on-trade volume decline of 37%,...
COVID-19 and the measures taken to try and contain it have had a mixed impact on sales of soft drinks in Japan, although the overall impact has been a negative one. A key factor behind this has been home seclusion with education facilities closed for part of the year, employees encouraged to work from home and foodservice being disrupted....
The April-June quarter accounts for the majority of sales of soft drinks in India. This, in conjunction with the fact that most soft drinks’ consumption in India occurs on-the-go or outside the home, and at a time when a significant number of foodservice outlets were not operational, only served to complicate the situation for the soft drinks...
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...
Sales of soft drinks were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in both off-trade and on-trade volume terms. On-trade volume saw a sharp double-digit decline in 2020, due to the closure of foodservice outlets, college and university canteens and recreational areas. Sales benefited to an extent from increased domestic consumption 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...
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...