The provisional 2017 estimates for cat food indicate a moderate increase in overall value sales. Actual sales value growth is predicted across the entire category, being particularly strong in cat treats and lowest in economy dry cat food. The cat ...

Based on provisional 2017 estimates, dog food is expected to record a modest increase in retail volume sales and a 4% rise in value sales over the year. Around 41% of Czech households owned at least one dog at the end of the review period, with ...

Other pet food is expected to register further retail value and volume growth in 2017. The overall trend for the other pet food category will be very similar in 2016 and 2017. Growth is set to be modest given the expected decline in the other pet ...

The Czech economy continued to grow at a moderate and steady pace over 2017. Consumer confidence rose, especially as the rate of unemployment fell to 4.0% in 2016, with a further fall to 3.5% seen in 2017. However, due to disparities at the regional ...

Pet healthcare and other pet products remained by far the largest categories in pet products in the Czech Republic in 2016 accounting for 48% and 42% shares, respectively. Pet owners continued to embrace the pet humanisation trend in which they ...

The shift in beer consumption away from the on-trade channel towards the off-trade channel continued to build during 2016. December 2016 saw all consumer foodservice outlets in the Czech Republic officially begin to use the country’s new online cash ...

Cider/perry continued to generate stronger interested among Czech consumers in 2016, with sales stimulated with the ample promotion activity of the category’s four strongest brands, all of which are offered by the country’s leading beer breweries. ...

Alcoholic drinks experienced only marginal total volume sales growth in 2016, which was a weaker performance compared with the growth rates seen in the category earlier in the review period. Cider/perry was the most dynamic category in 2016, followed...

Czech consumers drank more malt-based RTDs and wine-based RTDs in 2016, with consumption stimulated by the launch of interesting flavour extensions and strong marketing campaigns which target the key consumers of the younger generation. In ...

The trends which were most visible in spirits in 2015 continued to develop in the category during 2016. Czech consumers remained careful about the quality and origin of the spirits they consume and they continued to switch to well-established local ...

Czech consumers consumed more wine than ever before during 2016. The general wine preferences of Czech consumers remain focused on still light grape wine during the year, specifically still red wine. In addition, growth was recorded in the ...

The economy will continue to grow at a moderate but steady rate. Private final consumption provides solid support, along with a strong labour market. Investment will strengthen, boosted by the new cycle of EU investment funds. Exports will see a ...

100% home delivery/takeaway was boosted by the strong performance of the Czech economy, which enabled the growth of consumer foodservice overall, and accelerating change in consumers’ behaviour in the last three years of the review period. While home...

In December 2016 a new governmental regulation, electronic evidence of revenues, was implemented. This required every outlet operator to invest in or upgrade their cash register and internet connection, as every transaction must be directly reported ...

The number of outlets declined in consumer foodservice through leisure, retail and travel at the end of 2016. The key reason was the implementation of EET, the new tax reform strengthening revenue reporting requirements, which caused several outlets ...

Convenience stores brought a lot of innovation throughout the review period and this resulted in strong 9% value sales growth for convenience stores fast food in 2016. Companies understood that offering additional services, such as fresh food, hot ...

Legislation changes influenced full-service restaurants at the end of 2016. The implementation of EET in December 2016 caused a 3% decline in the number of outlets. The costs of implementation and more thorough checking of revenues by the financial ...

Consumer foodservice experienced strong growth during 2016. One of the key reasons was strong economic growth. Growing GDP and lower unemployment increased consumer confidence and motivated them to spend more on leisure. This differed to the ...

Self-service cafeterias outlets are often located in business districts and office areas and, therefore, the performance is strongly linked to the labour force development. Unemployment reached a record low of 4% at the end of 2016, one percentage ...

The growing economy was behind the growth of street stalls/kiosks. Higher disposable incomes and willingness to spend brought more consumers to shopping districts, where many street stalls/kiosks are located. In addition, it supported the younger ...