COVID-19 had a significant impact on consumer health in Austria in 2020 with it resulting in consumers reassessing their priorities and focusing on their immediate concerns. As concerns rose about the threat posed by COVID-19 many households started stocking up on products that were perceived to treat the symptoms of the virus, such as analgesics...
Overall consumer health is not expected to see a significant difference in its growth rate in 2020 compared with the previous year, with just a marginally higher current value increase. However, the emergence of the COVID-19 virus in the country at the beginning of the year had different impacts on different consumer health categories. Consumer...
Consumer health is expected to face a challenging year in 2020 as a result of COVID-19. The initial spike in current retail value sales at the start of the year was a result of the newly introduced nationwide restrictions which incited stockpiling across the country as consumers stocked up on essential supplies. Consumer Health in...
Consumer health in 2020 was both boosted and challenged by the impact of COVID-19 on consumer behaviour and retail channels. March and April saw extreme spikes in demand as consumers stockpiled products from nearly every category, particularly systematic analgesics and cough, cough, and allergy (hay fever) products. Product availability was...
Consumer health is expected to see lower current value growth in 2020 than was seen the previous year. One of the main factors dictating growth in this year is expected to be the COVID-19 pandemic. Algeria was already fragile economically and politically over the review period, but the pandemic further negatively impacted the country’s economy. Consumer...
Consumer health is anticipated to see slightly higher current value growth in 2020 than seen in 2019. One of the main reasons for this is the outbreak of COVID-19 which has benefited some of the product areas within consumer health. However, it is worth mentioning that only some of the product areas will benefit whilst the majority will be...
The emergence of the pandemic in Colombia and subsequent lockdown by the government in an attempt to control the spread of the virus resulted in rising unemployment and decreasing disposable incomes, and led to many local consumers prioritising their spending on essential purchases, including groceries and medicines. Consumer health therefore,...
Consumer health has seen slightly higher growth overall in current value terms in 2020 compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, growth has remained largely in line with the review period average, with economic pressures preventing any more significant gains. When COVID-19 first appeared in South Africa there was some initial stockpiling...
COVID-19 resulted in increased consumer interest in prevention and self-treatment in Taiwan in 2020. The systemic analgesics and cold and cough remedies categories demonstrated higher growth in 2020 than the previous year as a result. This was further underpinned by consumers’ reluctance to visit hospitals or clinics during the pandemic, in...
In response to COVID-19 the Swiss government introduced a range of measures to limit the spread of the virus, with this having a mixed impact on the various categories of consumer health. Nonetheless, there was an overall improvement seen in 2020, spurred on by stronger sales in key categories including analgesics, cough, cold and allergy...