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.
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…