Chile

Wipes continued to record a positive performance in 2022, driven by both personal wipes such as facial cleansing wipes, and home care options such as all purpose cleaning wipes, as concerned consumers attempted to maintain sanitised living…

Demand for retail tissue continued to grow in 2022, driven in particular by toilet paper, with the latter recording another year of double-digit volume and current value growth. Despite the easing of pandemic-related restrictions in Chile and greater…

Sportswear is the strongest performer within Chilean apparel and footwear in current value sales terms in 2022. While higher prices amid inflationary pressures are supporting further value growth, overall demand remains positive due to the growing…

While reusable face masks, which are categorised under other apparel accessories, benefitted from an unprecedented boom due to the pandemic in 2020, registering an increase of over 600%, demand was starting to slow in 2021, and turn to decline in…

Womenswear has been one of the industry’s strongest performers in Chile over 2022, along with footwear and sportswear. Although growth is evident across most of the category, women’s outerwear is the leader, and is being driven by the versatility of…

Demand for jeans was already declining in Chile prior to the pandemic, in line with changing preferences for more relaxed styles of apparel under the athleisure trend including tracksuit bottoms, but the category registered its sharpest double-digit…

Demand for hosiery in Chile, driven mainly by the dominant non-sheer segment, remains higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2022, despite a marginal decline in volume sales. Following a notable drop in 2020 due to pandemic-related home seclusion, growth…

Sanitary protection recorded positive retail volume and value growth in 2022, driven by the greater resumption of social activities, which benefitted overall demand. The reopening of local society following months of strict lockdowns resulted in…

2022 was the first year of a new era for Chilean consumer foodservice. After two years of pandemic turmoil, lockdown mandates, supply chain instability, labour shortages, sanitary restrictions, unbalanced cashflow and capacity limitations (among many…

Although pandemic-related restrictions were lifted during the second half of 2021, the greater return to the office has not been a reality for many Chilean employees. Many companies have established remote working or hybrid models, which remain in…

While demand for footwear in Chile continues to grow in 2022, albeit at a much slower rate than the previous year, overall volume sales remain lower than pre-pandemic levels. On the other hand, current value growth of the category remains higher,…

During 2021, there was a significant boom in demand for childrenswear in Chile with double-digit volume growth across the category. This was driven by a return to greater mobility outside of the home as restrictions eased, including the resumption of…

2022’s consumer foodservice industry is significantly different from that of 2019. The pandemic prompted many changes, with the advancement of online ordering and home delivery the most significant. For full-service restaurants, online ordering…

Demand for nappies/diapers in Chile stabilised in 2022 after several years of decline. On the other hand, current value sales recorded double-digit growth, driven by an increase in the average unit price due to external factors such as the rising…

Tissue and hygiene in Chile continued to record a positive performance in 2022, supported by retail tissue and hygiene categories such as adult incontinence, sanitary protection and wipes. It should be noted that volume growth for some retail…

Following a positive first nine months in terms of value sales, the last quarter of 2019 (and the first of 2020) was marked by unprecedented levels of social unrest and protests that took place on the streets of Chile throughout the country, forcing…

Along with street stalls/kiosks, self-service cafeterias particularly suffered from the pandemic and associated sanitary restrictions imposed by the government in Chile in an attempt to control the spread of the virus in 2020. Even after most…

After experiencing significant declines across all indicators in 2020 and a partial recovery in 2021, cafés/bars struggled to record more dynamic growth rates in 2022 with value sales, transactions and outlet numbers remaining below pre-pandemic…

Retail adult incontinence recorded stronger volume growth in 2022 compared to the previous year due to the fact that local society has become more aware of the need to use this type of hygiene product in a country with an increasingly ageing…

In general, the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were highly detrimental to the performance of limited-service restaurants. When compared to 2019, sales declined dramatically in 2020, and despite improvements in 2021, sales figures still sat below…