Category: Consumer Goods
Ecuador Consumer Goods
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Ecuador Booking
... in the travel domain, the online channel is gathering momentum. The main platform used for travel reservations by Ecuadorian tourists is Booking.com, followed by Despegar.com. Both platforms are increasingly trusted by tourists and are widely ... Read More
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Ecuador Travel
... insecurity in the country. At the start of 2024, the country experienced heightened levels of insecurity, leading to widespread news coverage of alarming events that instilled fear in the population. This negative attention damaged the ... Read More
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Ecuador Tourism Flows
... country. Security concerns have hampered domestic tourism to provinces where crime is perceived as more prevalent. The rise in violence and attacks reached unprecedented levels in January 2024, forcing the new government under President Daniel ... Read More
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Ecuador Lodging (Destination)
... levels of insecurity in the country, which has deterred tourists from visiting the main tourist destinations. The first quarter of 2024 proved to be particularly challenging due to heightened insecurity, which lead President Daniel Noboa's ... Read More
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Ecuador Cigarettes
... industry has caused a substantial price gap between legal products and cigarettes in the illicit market. While a pack of illicit cigarettes costs USD2.00, a pack of legal cigarettes costs more than USD6. The Special ... Read More
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Ecuador Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... of control by the authorities during the review period. However, as it has gained space within the country, the authorities are placing more and more emphasis on its control. This was a category in which ... Read More
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Ecuador Tobacco
... an economic and social crisis that led to a national strike during 2022 and the early departure of Guillermo Lasso's government during 2023. This has led to a severe security crisis that has affected consumption ... Read More
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Ecuador Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... population is not accustomed to consuming this type of product. For this reason, a large part of the sales made in the country are generated by international tourists visiting Ecuador. Many of these tourists buy ... Read More
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Ecuador Bath and Shower
... can be attributed largely to the declining use of products such as hand sanitisers, bar soap and liquid soap as the elevated levels of personal hygiene that emerged among the population of Ecuador at the ... Read More
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Ecuador Deodorants
... make ends meet despite working full-time. While the country’s official unemployment rate is relatively low at just 5.2%, the significant numbers of underemployed and underpaid people living in the country remains a major problem. The ... Read More
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Ecuador Mass Beauty and Personal Care
... 28% of value sales in this category are accounted for by direct selling companies. Direct selling players were among the companies most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore they have also been the ones ... Read More
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Ecuador Sun Care
... child-specific sun care. A number of factors contributed to this exceptional performance. On the one hand, the fact that local people are consulting with dermatologists more often has exposed the need for sun protection to ... Read More
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Ecuador Colour Cosmetics
... the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, some consumers were still wearing hygienic face masks some of the time during 2022, which meant that they could not also wear colour cosmetics such as facial make up and ... Read More
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Ecuador Hair Care
... this context, for example, categories such as salon professional hair care have seen significant sales growth and this applies not only to the beauty salons where these products are sold, but also chained players in ... Read More
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Ecuador Skin Care
... range of factors that have continued to drive rising consumption. On the one hand, the global trend for using facial care products to prevent premature ageing and have skin that is clear, smooth and obviously ... Read More
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Ecuador Oral Care
... the best sales performances. Against the backdrop of the adverse and complicated economic scenario that Ecuador has been experiencing for the past several years, many local consumers have become much more focused on saving money ... Read More
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Ecuador Baby and Child-Specific Products
... low price, has played a key role in reenergising the category, boosting demand in the midst of a challenging trading scenario due the complicated economic situation in Ecuador. The advent of these Chinese brands has ... Read More
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Ecuador Depilatories
... in the performance, resulting in the brand more than tripling its sales over the course of the review period. In response to the slight decline seen in demand during 2023, during the third quarter of ... Read More
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Ecuador Fragrances
... the clash between the need for direct contact between sales agents and their customers and efforts to minimise physical contact between people at the peak of the pandemic, the leading direct selling companies in beauty ... Read More
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Ecuador Beauty and Personal Care
... in the country. All of these factors combined have generally had a negative effect on consumption, making consumers much more cautious in their spending, especially on non-essential products, and this was evident in the prevailing ... Read More
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Ecuador Men's Grooming
... as the clean shaven look is no longer considered essential. However, rather than wearing shaggy, unkempt beards, local men are interested in having well-groomed and neatly trimmed beards and this has boosted sales of a ... Read More
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Ecuador Premium Beauty and Personal Care
... its local partner Quifatex SA have begun to revitalise the category with the incorporation of the La Roche-Posay brand into Ecuador. Many higher-income consumers had already had contact with the brand from their travels abroad ... Read More
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Menstrual Care in Ecuador
... spending behaviour, with political instability and rising prices shaping purchasing decisions. This scenario has led consumers to look for cheaper options, boosting the sale of low-cost brands while increasing footfall to the hard discounter channel. ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in Ecuador
... homes and older care facilities, with administrators frequently advising family members to buy these products for their older relatives. This approach enables each family to select the most appropriate products based on individual requirements and ... Read More
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Wipes in Ecuador
... providing customers with a wide array of choices in terms of variety, quality, and pricing. Private labels have continued to carve out a larger share within various retail chains, including supermarkets and pharmacies. In line ... Read More
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