Home and garden specialist retailers saw the continuation of the impact of pension fund withdrawals authorised at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. Chileans continued to invest those funds in making home repairs and upgrades, supported by improvi…
The COVID-19 crisis has made the domestic environment even more central to the experiences of the Colombian consumer. Home seclusion, remote working and distance learning have bolstered demand for a range of home and garden products. Kitchen products have…
Volume sales of home insecticides continue to see positive growth in 2021, although the relaxation of lockdown restrictions has meant that demand has weakened as many consumers return to the workplace. Sales of these products are also intensely seasonal, …
The country’s Saudisation programme has been building momentum since its inception in 2018, with the aim being to increase the number of local workers in businesses. The programme has been accelerated in response to COVID-19 with the government keen to ge…
Entering a grocery store in a pandemic with such a contagious disease as COVID-19 means coming into contact with other people. Even payment methods such as swiping a card or passing cash to someone are perceived as potential risks. This is why consumers h…
Warehouse clubs are not a significant presence in Spanish retailing, with Costco Wholesale Spain SL the only player. During 2021, it operated three outlets in Spain, up from two at the beginning of the forecast period. These are located in Madrid, Seville…
The pandemic has driven a modest acceleration in the rate of growth of retail current value sales of home care in Malaysia, with the fact that consumers were spending more time at home due to COVID-19 restrictions outweighing the economic shock of the pan…
Overall, current value sales were flat in 2021, with volume sales falling slightly. With society gradually opening up in 2021, after the 2020 lockdowns, people were out and about more and there was less demand for home care products and there was less was…
The increasingly crowded and busy lives of consumers in Saudi Arabia has helped fuel a rise in the insect population. Added to this, hot temperatures, as well as the introduction of new insects into the kingdom that spread diseases, continued to drive dem…
After many years of growth, in 2020 home care turned to decline in both retail volume and current value terms. The negative performance in this year was due to the outbreak of COVID-19, which increased price-sensitivity in the country, leading consumers t…
Home care continued to grow in value and volume terms in 2021, in spite of the strong increases seen a year earlier in 2020. In addition to the increased cleaning frequency to prevent germs and viruses from spreading, specifically motivated by the fear of…
Following the increased demand seen in 2020, the home care industry in Spain recorded a slightly negative performance in 2021, albeit with sales remaining above pre-pandemic levels. Many of the products in home care were positioned as essential for fighti…
Although the pandemic created a harsh economic and social scenario in Chile, it also boosted retail volume and current value sales of most home care products in 2020. As 2021 still had stay-at-home orders and lockdowns in place, consumers gave themselves …
The Austrian home care market registered a minimal decline in current value terms in 2021, as the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lessened in this year. However, sales remained higher than their pre-pandemic levels, following the strong grow…
Unexpectedly, the second wave of COVID-19 hit Indonesia in the middle of 2021, forcing the country into a nationwide lockdown. This slowed down business, and negatively affected consumer disposable incomes, resulting in lower sales volume growth of home c…
Although consumers’ cleaning routines tended to become more intense when the pandemic hit the country in 2020, and they partly remained in place in 2021, there was nevertheless a relaxation in terms of cleaning regimes as the vaccination roll-out gathered…
Home insecticides was less affected by fluctuations in demand due to the pandemic than other categories in home care. Home insecticides continued to see solid growth at a similar level in both 2020 and 2021 as it had done prior to the pandemic. Demand was…
After recording strong growth in 2020, a much slower performance was seen in 2021. According to trade sources, July/August were not very good months for these products in 2021. Home insecticides had witnessed a strong leap in growth in retail volume and c…
With people spending more time at home for work, education and socialising during the pandemic, they were increasingly concerned to maintain or improve their homes and gardens. After the second wave of COVID-19, people also realised that home seclusion is…
Home insecticides registered lower current value growth than in 2020, as with people out and about more in 2021, there was less need for home insecticides. However, home insecticides were largely unaffected by COVID-19, as it is mainly a seasonal, functio…