Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a ...
Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a wealth of standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market share and brand share data, distribution and industry trends.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge influence on the shopping habits of Kuwaitis in 2020 and 2021 as a big shift towards e-commerce was seen. Historically, e-commerce has struggled to gain a mainstream presence in Kuwait and this is a reflection of the…
In 2021, retailing in Germany recorded further positive current value growth, despite already posting the highest growth in more than two decades in 2020, as some purchases were brought forward into the first year of the pandemic. Similar to the…
Broadly speaking, the country’s economy emerged from the pandemic in a far better condition than anticipated. Most consumers have not experienced significant financial problems and the country’s GDP rebounded quickly in 2021. The ongoing restrictions…
Taiwan’s retail industry faced abrupt changes when an outbreak of COVID-19 upended consumers’ everyday lives in mid-May 2021 and restrictions were imposed by the government. Retail sales across channels saw completely contrasting performances.…
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on retailing in Algeria. Firstly, the Algerian economy was hit by a double whammy in 2020 – COVID-19 and plummeting oil prices. Algeria is highly dependent on oil exports and this led to a…
Growth in value sales in retailing was slightly lower in 2021 than in 2020, as consumers felt their finances being squeezed due to the fallout of the pandemic and there was also inflationary pressure. All the same, certain retailers performed better…
Retailing has seen recovery in 2021, as the government response to the pandemic has seen the economy begin to reopen and consumers resume pre-pandemic habits. The relaxation of lockdown measures, including restrictions on store opening, as well as…
Overall, retailing in Azerbaijan continued to see positive retail current value growth in 2021. Indeed, the overall growth was slightly higher than over 2020, as many non-essential retailers reopened as the threat of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and…
While retailing registered an increase in current value sales in 2021, constant value sales actually fell. The pandemic continued to dampen value sales in 2021 for several reasons. Firstly, consumers were price sensitive, as the economic fallout of…
Having declined during 2020 due to disruption arising from COVID-19 and the economic shock that it engendered, retail constant value sales (2021 prices) saw a partial recovery in 2021. Like 2020, 2021 was marked by a significant divergence in…
After a challenging and complicated year, retailing in Peru began to recover in 2021, as sales grew in relation to 2020. This was despite the fact that the pandemic had not yet been completely overcome. Moreover, while the vaccination campaign was…
Retailing in Ghana slowly recovered in 2021. The restrictions imposed by the government at the height of the pandemic led to sales losses but upon the arrival of vaccines and rapid vaccination rate in 2021, the government permitted retail operations…
Retailing in Myanmar has been negatively impacted by the ongoing political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to 2020, new retail outlet openings slowed down significantly across the country in 2021 while some outlets closed down altogether…
2021 started with another blow to store-based retailing in Denmark as a new wave of COVID-19 resulted in the forced closure of shopping centres and department stores. In late spring and over the summer, however, the situation improved and sales…
Cambodia’s retailing industry came under pressure during 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite political stability and the second highest vaccination among ASEAN countries, official COVID control measures and major changes in consumer…
Despite an overall recovery in terms of value sales in 2021, the South African retailing landscape remained subject to slow economic recovery across labour-intensive sectors such as tourism and hospitality, a trend translating into a stagnating…
Having declined significantly during 2020, retailing current value sales recovered only marginally in 2021. 2020 saw a sharp divergence in performance between grocery retailers and non-grocery specialists on the one hand and store-based retailing and…
2020 was a difficult year for retailing, marked by the limitations of movement brought about by the onset of COVID-19 and the government establishing the Plan Paso a Paso that contemplated and enforced long and strict quarantines for most of the…