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Health and Wellness Healthcare in Switzerland

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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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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

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