Health and Wellness Healthcare in Switzerland
Euromonitor International's Health and Wellness Healthcare in Switzerland market report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, packaging innovations, economic/lifestyle influences, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts illustrate how the market is set to change.
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Chapters: 6 | Tables: 40 | Publication date: Nov 2006
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Table of contents
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Wellness trend secures stable growth of vitamins and dietary supplements
Largest range: herbal/traditional products
General health and wellness trend drives the health and wellness OTC healthcare industry
Drugstores/parapharmacies faces strong competition from mass retailers
A stronger holistic approach expected to drive future sales
2. MARKET BACKGROUND
2.1 NATIONAL LEGISLATION
Health and wellness OTC products need to reapply with Swissmedic
Classification of medicinal products
Few new launches in health and wellness OTC healthcare
Obligatory information leaflet for all medical products
Registration and classification of vitamins and dietary supplements
2.2 ADVERTISING
2.3 SELF-MEDICATION AND PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
2.4 ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
Homeopathy
2.5 DIET PROGRAMMES
Obesity affects more than appearance
Celebrity-endorsed diets very popular
2.6 LOCAL PRODUCTS
2.7 RETAIL DISTRIBUTION
3. VITAMINS AND DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
3.1 SECTOR PERFORMANCE
2005 headlines
Weak performance due to strong competition from private label products
Price increases have little or no impact
Fish oils enjoys rapid growth
Tonics and bottled nutritive drinks loses out
Mineral combination products outperformed by more specific variants
Forecast performance
Table 1 Sales of Vitamins and Dietary Supplements by Sector: Value 2002-2005
Table 2 Sales of Vitamins and Dietary Supplements by Sector: % Value Growth 2002-2005
Table 3 Forecast Sales of Vitamins and Dietary Supplements by Sector: Value 2005-2010
Table 4 Forecast Sales of Vitamins and Dietary Supplements by Sector: % Value Growth 2005-2010
3.2 VITAMINS PERFORMANCE
2005 headlines
Sales of vitamins perform better in 2005 than in the previous year, but remain fairly weak
Low consumer confidence in multivitamins
Sales of vitamin D enjoy rapid growth in 2005
Vitamins characterised by fierce competition
Table 5 Sales of Vitamins by Type: Value 2002-2005
Table 6 Sales of Vitamins by Type: % Value Growth 2002-2005
Table 7 Multivitamins Brand Rankings 2005
Table 8 Single Vitamins Brand Rankings 2005
3.3 DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS PERFORMANCE
2005 headlines
Recovery for dietary supplements after slow review period growth
Leading players missing from eye health supplements, co-enzyme Q10 and fish oils
Mineral supplements accounts for the majority share of dietary supplements
Table 9 Sales of Dietary Supplements by Type: Value 2002-2005
Table 10 Sales of Dietary Supplements by Type: % Value Growth 2002-2005
Table 11 Calcium supplements: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 12 Mineral supplements: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 13 Cod liver oil: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 14 Other fish oils: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 15 Garlic: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 16 Ginseng: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 17 Ginkgo biloba: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 18 Echinacea: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 19 St John's wort: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 20 Eye health supplements: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 21 Royal jelly: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 22 Co-enzyme Q10: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 23 Tonics and bottled nutritive drinks: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 24 Child-specific vitamins and dietary supplements: Brand Rankings 2005
3.4 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
Summary 1 Vitamins and Dietary Supplements: New Product Launches 2004/2005
4. HERBAL/TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS
4.1 SECTOR PERFORMANCE
2005 headlines
Swiss increasingly opt for herbal cough, cold and allergy (hay fever) products
Child-specific products become increasingly significant
Herbal calming and sleeping products appeals to the Swiss
Teas to purify the body and dietary supplements make up for poor eating habits
Herbal tonics and bottled nutritive drinks and herbal analgesics in decline
Forecast performance
Table 25 Sales of Herbal/Traditional Products by Sector: Value 2002-2005
Table 26 Sales of Herbal/Traditional Products by Sector: % Value Growth 2002-2005
Table 27 Forecast Sales of Herbal/Traditional Products: Value 2005-2010
Table 28 Forecast Sales of Herbal/Traditional Products: % Value Growth 2005-2010
4.2 COMPANY AND BRAND ANALYSIS
Summary 2 Herbal/Traditional Products: Major Players 2004/2005
4.3 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
Summary 3 Herbal/Traditional Products: New Product Launches 2004/2005
5. SLIMMING PRODUCTS
5.1 SECTOR PERFORMANCE
2005 headlines
Growth of slimming products slows over 2004
Slimming tablets is the largest range within slimming products
Slimming teas also enjoys rapid growth
Forecast performance
Table 29 Sales of Slimming Products by Sector: Value 2002-2005
Table 30 Sales of Slimming Products by Sector: % Value Growth 2002-2005
Table 31 Forecast Sales of Slimming Products: Value 2005-2010
Table 32 Forecast Sales of Slimming Products: % Value Growth 2005-2010
Table 33 Meal Replacement Slimming Products % Breakdown by Type 2005
5.2 COMPANY AND BRAND ANALYSIS
Kneipp and Sidoga remain the most important players
Summary 4 Slimming Products: Major Players 2004/2005
Table 34 Slimming tablets: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 35 Slimming teas: Brand Rankings 2005
Table 36 Meal replacement slimming products: Brand Rankings 2005
5.3 NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
6. DEFINITIONS