Category: Consumer Goods & Retailing
Uruguay Consumer Goods & Retailing
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Uruguay Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... not been as large. The latter forced people to buy these products at the other side of the border or ask a relative or friend to bring some cigars from abroad at a much more ... Read More
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Uruguay Cigarettes
... decline in smoking prevalence and a lower number of cigarettes smoked per person on a daily basis. People are increasingly aware of the harmful effects of tobacco consumption and are willing to follow healthier habits, ... Read More
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Uruguay Tobacco
... in 2023 in a context in which its neighbour and commercial partner witnessed significant and serious economic turmoil. Moreover, the value of the local currency (Uruguayan peso) appreciated against the US dollar in 2023, which ... Read More
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Uruguay Baby and Child-Specific Products
... negative sales trend can be attributed mainly to the prevalence of cross-border shopping, which in turn is due to the differences in the prices charged for these products in retail outlets in the way and ... Read More
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Uruguay Hair Care
... comprised the review period. While sales declines earlier in the review period were due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on demand for beauty and personal care generally as social distancing meant that there ... Read More
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Uruguay Oral Care
... Throughout the year, huge numbers of consumers continued to cross the border into Argentina to purchase a wide range of fmcg, including oral care products, in order to take advantage of significantly lower prices. At ... Read More
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Uruguay Skin Care
... relying on the services of professional beauticians. This trend began earlier in the review period at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the strict approach taken to social distancing deprived many local consumers of ... Read More
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Uruguay Beauty and Personal Care
... erode demand for products distributed through official retail channels. The impact of this is seen most clearly in deodorants, bath and shower, hair care, men's grooming, and oral care, all of which experienced drops in ... Read More
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Uruguay Deodorants
... the main reason for declining demand for deodorants is the rampant cross-border trade in these products. Specifically, many consumers in Uruguay across the border into Argentina to buy deodorants, among a wide range of fmcg, ... Read More
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Uruguay Bath and Shower
... and neighbouring Argentina, where the prices charged for a wide variety of fmcg tend to be considerably lower. This price difference has encouraged hundreds of thousands of Uruguayans to regularly cross the border and buy ... Read More
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Uruguay Fragrances
... socialising outside of the home on a daily basis. Although volume growth is slowing down with each passing year as the category recovers from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation for brands active ... Read More
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Uruguay Colour Cosmetics
... return to working and socialising outside of the home on a daily basis presented local women with opportunities to wear a variety of colour cosmetics more often, including eye make-up and facial make-up, two categories ... Read More
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Uruguay Mass Beauty and Personal Care
... all suffered significant drops in demand during the year as volume sales performances were even worse than what was seen during 2022. These sales decreases are closely linked to cross-border shopping, with a significant proportion ... Read More
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Uruguay Depilatories
... and women’s razors and blades. However, it should be noted that this decline in demand applies only to legitimate retail sales of products distributed by official suppliers and that falling volume sales are due to ... Read More
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Uruguay Premium Beauty and Personal Care
... to rise steadily. In particular, sales growth is being driven by premium sun care, premium colour cosmetics and premium fragrances as the consumer base for premium brands continues to expand, fuelling a premiumisation trend as ... Read More
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Uruguay Sun Care
... demand recorded earlier the review period was due almost entirely to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which discouraged people from spending time outside of the home, the robust recovery seen in sales during 2022 ... Read More
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Uruguay Men's Grooming
... premium men’s fragrances registered increasing demand. This positive performance can be attributed largely to the increasing trend among local men for paying more attention to their personal grooming. In fact, in per capita spending on ... Read More
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Retail Tissue in Uruguay
... sales by value. Small-scale smuggling has negatively impacted sales of both paper towels and toilet paper purchased in Uruguay. Locals have been keen to stock up on these essential goods at substantially cheaper prices in ... Read More
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Retail Adult Incontinence in Uruguay
... are those sold in a relatively small and easy-to-carry format. In terms of adult incontinence, pads and incontinence towels align more with these attributes than adult incontinence pants. Due to its bigger size, packs of ... Read More
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Menstrual Care in Uruguay
... many consumers opted to buy these products at a much cheaper price in supermarkets located in Argentina. Border cities, such as Salto and Paysandu, were the main beneficiaries of this trend. In addition, thousands of ... Read More
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Wipes in Uruguay
... relatively high unit price and small easy-to-carry format. As a result, they were one of the most smuggled products in tissue and hygiene. Large numbers of Uruguayans purchased wipes in supermarkets across the border in ... Read More
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Tissue and Hygiene in Uruguay
... gap between the official exchange rate and the informal market exchange rate in Argentina widened considerably in 2023 and so Uruguayans travelling with Uruguayan pesos or the US dollar found the neighbouring country very cheap, ... Read More
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Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene in Uruguay
... located in border cities, such as Salto and Paysandu. Overall, the industry managed to generate positive results in 2023, aided by the improved economic climate and inflation coming under control. The increased number of Brazilian ... Read More
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Nappies/Diapers/Pants in Uruguay
... sales, although the impact was far less severe than in other tissue and hygiene categories. In contrast to the declining consumption, nappies/diapers/pants witnessed double-digit current value growth in 2023, due to trading up in the ... Read More
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Home Insecticides in Uruguay
... meant less breeding ground for mosquitoes, which in turn reduced mosquito numbers, and led to less demand for home insecticides. Euromonitor International's Home Insecticides in Uruguay market report offers a comprehensive guide to the size ... Read More
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