Understand the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural influences...
Understand the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural influences that shape consumer demand and future prospects in Africa, with analyses that offer unique local knowledge and insight in support of comprehensive market statistics.
In November 2021, the global tobacco giant Philip Morris entered heated tobacco and heating devices with its iQOS 3 Duo and HEETS brands, under the Régie Nationale des Tabacs et des Allumettes (RNTA) umbrella. One year on, heated tobacco registered…
Tunisians are big fans of hookah smoking, which is widely smoked in cafés in Tunisia. This sector is dominated by foreign brands such as Mazaya, Al Fakher, and Adalya, which are smuggled into Tunisia on the black market and available from traditional…
It was a negative year for cigarettes in 2022, with a significant fall in volume sales and with illicit sales accounting for over a quarter of volume sales – a figure that has been increasing since 2020. This was in spite of smoking prevalence…
After a strong recovery in economic activity during 2021 with GDP growth of more than 7%, the performance of Morocco’s economy stood at 1.3% in 2022 due to an unfavourable economic situation, especially for the agricultural sector, which was strongly…
Since the introduction of its heated tobacco device Iqos in November 2021, Philip Morris has continued to invest in opening its own stores in large cities in Morocco where Iqos retails at MAD750, while HEETS heated tobacco sticks are sold in…
Sales of cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco rebound in 2022 due to the reopening of cafés and bars, and the surge in tourism. These products are mainly consumed in on-trade outlets, which account for more than 80% of total cigars and smoking…
After an increase in the Internal Consumption Tax (TIC) on tobacco in January 2021, there was a rise in April 2021 and further increase in January 2023, building on the increase from 2020. This had a particularly pronounced effect on volume sales of…
The monopoly over the manufacturing of cigarettes in Egypt by the state-owned Eastern Co. came to an end in 2022, when the United Tobacco Company (UTC), a subsidiary of Philip Morris International (PMI), started manufacturing cigarettes. This…
Cigarettes showed only moderate retail volume growth in Algeria in 2022. The Algerian economy is witnessing rising inflation, which is eroding the purchasing power of lower and middle income consumer groups and reducing their expenditure on tobacco.…
Consuming smokeless tobacco has always been legal in Algeria. Loose US-style moist snuff, known locally as Chemma, is the only smokeless tobacco product available, and is traditionally popular in Algeria, although it is consumed by men much more than…