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...
Soft drinks sales in the Dominican Republic has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 in 2020, although there has been variation by product type. Broadly speaking, the greatest impact has been a result of the government’s closure of hotels and restaurants, coffee shops and specialist coffee stores at the beginning of the pandemic. Soft...
After seeing slow but solid growth during most of the review period, total volume sales of soft drinks have turned to decline in 2020 due to COVID-19. However, whilst off-trade volume sales have increased at a higher rate, on-trade sales have plummeted. Off-trade growth increased partly because major stockpiling was seen in the early stages...
The retail of soft drinks in the UK has been positively impacted by the emergence of COVID-19 due to a significant channel shift from the on-trade to the off-trade space. This is explained by the prolonged lockdown starting in March 2020 which severely impacted the hospitality industry and resulted in many horeca outlets struggling to stay...
COVID-19 had a huge impact on soft drinks in Hong Kong in 2020, with both foodservice and retail volume sales recording a significant decline. In foodservice, soft drinks experienced a substantial loss due to a number of measures to fight the virus imposed by the Hong Kong government. Soft Drinks in Hong Kong, China report offers a...
According to National Bureau of Statistics, the on-trade consumption during the Spring Festival accounted for 15.5% of annual total on-trade revenue in 2019. The outbreak of COVID-19 during the Spring Festival in China during 2020 caused a severe impact on on-trade consumption. According to China Cuisine Association, around 93% of the on-trade...
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...
Overall, off-trade sales of soft drinks are expected to be moderately negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but on-trade sales are set to record drastic decline due to the lockdown in spring and ongoing restrictions thereafter. Some outlets have been unable to reopen at all, while others have operated on a strictly limited...
Other than bottled water and juice, soft drinks has been negatively affected by COVID-19. Soft drinks sales are generally driven by events, occasions, sporting and other outdoor activities in Cameroon. Restrictions placed on outdoor activities and gatherings stifled growth in soft drinks in 2020. Bottled water sales, on the contrary, rose...