Category: Consumer Goods & Retailing
Consumer Goods & Retailing market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Convenience Retailers in Hong Kong, China
Despite a marginal decline in 2024, driven by the dominant convenience stores, value sales through convenience retailers in Hong Kong remained significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, while the number of outlets continued to rise. The channel is appreciated for offering products at more compet ... Read More
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Direct Selling in Hong Kong, China
Value sales of direct selling in Hong Kong experienced decline in 2024, with the channel recording a fluctuating performance throughout the review period. Sales were hampered by weak product categories such as appliances and electronics, and food, alongside economic uncertainty, and consumers shift ... Read More
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Menstrual Care in Taiwan
Menstrual care achieved positive value sales in Taiwan in 2024, while volume sales remained in a negative slump. These dynamics are attributed to value being supported by high prices, whereas volume is lower due to consumers’ supressed purchasing power in light of these high prices. Overall, however ... Read More
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Retail Tissue in Taiwan
Retail tissue maintained positive value sales in Taiwan in 2024, with volume also inching into a marginally positive performance. That said, sales were at lower levels than seen in 2023. Paper towels was the best performing category, benefitting from multiple uses, while toilet paper is the largest ... Read More
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Wipes in Taiwan
Wipes saw relatively healthy value growth in Taiwan in 2024, with personal wipes seeing the strongest performance. Meanwhile, personal wipes is also the largest category in terms of value. General purpose wipes was also a strong performer in 2024, both in terms of growth and category size. Euromonit ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in Ukraine
Retail adult incontinence saw dynamic growth in value and volume terms in 2024. Such a dramatic increase was explained by the number of injured military personnel and civilians as a result of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Although the exact numbers of the dead and injured servicemen are not discl ... Read More
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Retail Tissue in Ukraine
Retail tissue saw positive growth in current value terms in 2024, although this was largely fuelled by price rises rather than an increase in demand. Volume sales of retail tissue continued to decline in 2024 with demand having been hard hit since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2024, with large num ... Read More
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Nappies/Diapers/Pants in Ukraine
Sales of nappies/diapers/pants continued to decline sharply in 2024 in current value and retail volume terms in 2024. Many families with children fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion with many yet to return due to the ongoing war. Safety fears among other factors, such as the weakened economy, h ... Read More
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Wipes in Ukraine
Overall sales of wipes declined in current value terms in 2024, although performances varied across the different categories. For instance, the popularity and applications of personal wipes have increased since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with these products now commonly used as the primary person ... Read More
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Retail in Hong Kong, China
Retail in Hong Kong recorded further current value growth in 2024, although this continued to slow following three consecutive years of post-pandemic rebound. The city is seeing a shift in consumption patterns, with local residents increasingly heading northbound to mainland China, including Shenzhe ... Read More
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Appliances and Electronics Specialists in Hong Kong, China
Value sales of appliances and electronics specialists in Hong Kong recorded a second consecutive year of decline in 2024, as consumers, having already made significant investments in these items during the pandemic and home seclusion, continued to prioritise their budgets in an unstable economy rath ... Read More
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Nappies/Diapers/Pants in Taiwan
Value sales of nappies/diapers/pants saw a positive performance in Taiwan in 2024, with volume sales also inching back into marginally positive figures. This is an improvement on the performance seen in 2023, in both value and volume terms. Meanwhile, disposable pants witnessed the strongest growth, ... Read More
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Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene in Taiwan
Away-from-home (AFH) tissue and hygiene saw healthy value sales in 2024, with away-from-home hygiene seeing the strongest growth, supported by AFH adult incontinence. Meanwhile, the largest category within away-from-home tissue was AFH toilet paper, which follows the same trend as seen in retail tis ... Read More
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Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene in Ukraine
Value sales of away-from-home tissue increased in current value terms in 2024. This growth was largely driven by price increases, with local producers being less focused on away-from-home tissue, while the cost of importing products continued to rise. Away-from-home volume sales remained well below ... Read More
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General Merchandise Stores in Hong Kong, China
Value sales of department stores in Hong Kong recovered in 2024, following a decline the previous year, while the number of outlets continued to rise. Sales were supported by the increase in new shopping centres and the emergence of unique stores which opened during the year. Despite the fact that m ... Read More
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Apparel and Footwear Specialists in Hong Kong, China
Retail value sales through apparel and footwear specialists in Hong Kong experienced a decline in 2024 to remain below pre-pandemic levels, despite an uptick the previous year. An unstable economic landscape in Hong Kong, with salary freezes during the annual Policy Address, in addition to an announ ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in Taiwan
Retail adult incontinence was the big winner in Taiwan in 2024, both in terms of value and volume growth, and also in relation to projected CAGR over the forecast period. In part, this can be attributed to the fact that Rx/reimbursement adult incontinence is not relevant in Taiwan, thus, retail is t ... Read More
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Tissue and Hygiene in Ukraine
2024 was a challenging year for Ukraine with retail volume sales of most products being heavily affected by Russia’s ongoing war in the country. Sales in some categories, like retail adult incontinence, have been boosted by the war, but many others, like nappies/diapers/pants, have seen a steep drop ... Read More
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Health and Beauty Specialists in Hong Kong, China
Despite further value growth in 2024, health and beauty specialists in Hong Kong experienced a mixed performance among the different categories. Following impressive double-digit growth the previous year, beauty specialists recorded the weakest performance in 2024 with a 4% value decline as consumer ... Read More
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Retail E-Commerce in Hong Kong, China
Following a marginal decline the previous year, e-commerce in Hong Kong returned to double-digit current value growth in 2024, supported by the performance of HKTVmall, as well as online delivery platforms such as Deliveroo and Keeta, along with Temu and fast fashion player Shein. The success of e-c ... Read More
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Tissue and Hygiene in Taiwan
Tissue and hygiene saw positive value and volume sales in Taiwan in 2024, albeit at slightly lower rates of growth than experienced in 2023. The main attributed reasons for this are changing social demographics such as falling birth rates, high costs in raw materials, shipping and logistics, and wit ... Read More
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Home Products Specialists in Hong Kong, China
Value sales of homewares and home furnishing stores in Hong Kong stagnated in 2024 following a strong decline the previous year, with many consumers becoming more cautious with their discretionary spending. This was particularly relevant as they had already made significant investments in these prod ... Read More
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Menstrual Care in Ukraine
Sales of menstrual care declined in current value and retail volume terms in 2024. Value sales declined at a slower rate than in volume terms but this was due to price increases linked to high inflation and the rising cost of logistics. Meanwhile, volume sales continued to be impacted by the fact th ... Read More
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Tissue and Hygiene in Paraguay
Overall, the tissue and hygiene market witnessed a positive performance in 2024, mainly triggered by economic strength and a reduction in smuggling activity from Argentina. Moreover, Paraguay’s GDP climbed by almost 4% year-on-year, while the country’s inflation decelerated for the second consecutiv ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Hong Kong, China
Following a value sales decline in 2023 due to inflation-driven price increases by major players in the channel, supermarkets in Hong Kong recovered with solid growth in 2024. This was mainly due to offering more competitive prices and local consumers’ general preference for supermarkets as a grocer ... Read More
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