This report analyses the market for retailing in Oman. For the purposes of the study, the market has been defined as follows: Retailing in Oman report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry. The report examines all retail channels to provide sector insight. Channels include hypermarkets, supermarkets, discounters,...
Retailing in 2021: The big picture Retailing in Panama report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry. The report examines all retail channels to provide sector insight. Channels include hypermarkets, supermarkets, discounters, convenience stores, mixed retailers, health and beauty retailers, clothing and...
The emergence of the pandemic in Poland had a mixed impact on retailing in 2020, whereby consumers focused on essential goods such as food and medicine, while non-grocery specialists significantly struggled with lockdowns, and reduced footfall even when stores were permitted to reopen due to concerns over exposure to the virus, leading to...
The emergence of COVID-19 has had a wide reaching impact on retailing in New Zealand, with the lockdown and social distancing measures forcing consumers to reassess how they shop. Many local consumers have switched to shopping online – some for the first time – with this being partly due to a lack of access to some products in stores, but...
In 2021, the Nigerian economy gradually recovered from the effect of the pandemic. The economic impact of the pandemic was exacerbated by a sharp decline in the price of crude oil – Nigeria’s main export – which led to a decline in the foreign-exchange value of the naira, resulting in increased import costs. The early months of the pandemic...
While current value sales registered a double-digit increase in 2021, this growth was mainly due to soaring inflation and in fact in constant value terms, sales only rose slightly. The steep inflation rate is due to tough capital controls designed to keep the official peso rate in check. Controls include only allowing individuals to buy US$200...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was still being felt strongly in the Turkish retailing market in 2021. Whilst there were clear signs of recovery and sales growth compared to 2020, consumer demand was not as strong as it had been in 2019. Whilst year on year value growth was seen in many areas of the retailing market, the lack of corresponding...
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on retailing in Algeria. Firstly, the Algerian economy was hit by a double whammy in 2020 – COVID-19 and plummeting oil prices. Algeria is highly dependent on oil exports and this led to a devaluation of the dinar and a general increase in inflation. This in turn led to lower disposable incomes...
The Swiss economy weathered the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well and swiftly recovered to pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Overall, there was an increase in value sales, though growth was lower than in 2020, with inflation rising slightly in 2021. Retailing in Switzerland report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the...
Retailing constant value sales continued to expand in Côte d’Ivoire during both 2020 and 2021, albeit at a significantly slower rate than in the earlier part of the review period. Disruption arising from the pandemic and the economic shock that it engendered hit non-grocery specialists like apparel and footwear specialists particularly hard,...