Argentina

The briefing introduces the Cities Households Necessities Spending Index. The index ranks 1,075 cities by household expenditure on non-discretionary items, namely food, housing, and clothing and footwear. This analysis focuses on 160 major cities.…

International brands owned by major global producers such as Johnson & Johnson, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb and Cooper have long dominated contact lenses and solutions in Argentina. However, with soaring inflation eroding purchasing power and import…

While eyewear in Argentina is poised to record high double-digit growth in total current value sales in 2023, this is because the country’s longstanding problems with inflation have worsened considerably due to the combined impact of the global…

Hoya, a Japanese producer of spectacle lenses, has entered and exited eyewear in Argentina on multiple occasions over several years depending on how macroeconomic conditions have fluctuated. After an absence of some time, towards the end of the…

Ray-Ban, Rusty, Oakley and Vulk are set to remain the leading brands in sunglasses in Argentina in value sales terms in 2023. Among these top four players, the Luxottica-owned Ray-Ban and Oakley have been hardest hit by import restrictions recently…