Away-From-Home Tissue and Hygiene

After the massive disruption to sales of AFH tissue and hygiene products during 2020 due to the closure of foodservice, and travel restrictions across the world, 2021 seemed to be set to be a year of full recovery. However, this was not the case for…

Away-from-home tissue demonstrated double-digit volume growth in 2021, after the significant volume and current value declines seen in 2020 as a direct result of the pandemic. This recovery is largely due to the reopening of horeca outlets, the…

With society gradually opening up in 2021, away-from-home tissue and hygiene registered an increase in current value sales, after a severe decline in 2020. In particular, the opening of hotels and restaurants and schools and many people also…

Away-from-home tissue and hygiene continued to experience decline in 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. From May to October 2021, the pandemic peaked in the south of Vietnam, leading to strict lockdowns across almost all provinces, which…

With society gradually opening up in 2021, away-from-home tissue and hygiene registered a healthy increase in current value sales, after a severe decline in 2020. In particular, the opening of hotels and restaurants and schools and many people also…

Away-from-home tissue managed to recover from its negative performance in 2020 due to the strong impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. The category is highly dependent on international tourist demand, which recorded a recovery in 2021 (according to the…

Value sales of AFH tissue and hygiene have appeared to recover in 2021, at least in current terms; the easing of lockdown restrictions over the year has seen consumers return to work or study, and resume social lives that had been put on hold. This…

With the exception of AFH paper towels, which was the only product to record a positive performance in 2020, all other away-from-home categories were significantly affected by the closure of non-essential businesses and institutions in response to…

The demand for AFH adult incontinence products continued to increase strongly in current value terms in 2020 and 2021, with this factor also driving growth in AFH wipers through hospitals/healthcare. This was partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, due…

Generally, AFH tissue and its various categories saw steep declines in 2020, when the pandemic first hit Spain, before recovering with positive growth in 2021, albeit not as strong as the declines seen a year earlier in volume terms. The emergence of…

In 2021, all AFH tissue categories rebounded from slumps in volume and current value sales in 2020, caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions on the business/industry, horeca and public channels. However, the residual threat of COVID-19 saw a…

Away-from-home tissue suffered massive loss of sales in 2020, as the South African government implemented strict lockdown restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. As a result, restaurants were forced to close their doors for over a month, while…

At the start of the pandemic, hospitalizations of adults for health problems that were not strictly necessary tended to fall in number, and non-emergency surgeries and treatments were postponed. Similar patterns of behaviour were seen in nursing…

With society gradually opening up in 2021, away-from-home tissue and hygiene registered a healthy double-digit increase in current value growth, after the mute performance in 2020. In particular, the opening of hotels and restaurants and schools and…

In 2021, AFH tissue volume sales recovered partially from 2020, a year with multiple lockdown periods. However, in this year AFH tissue did not perform strongly enough to offset the decline in volume sales seen in 2020. With a lockdown at the…

The closure of Taiwan’s borders in April 2020 because of the presence of the COVID-19 virus in the region had a hugely negative impact on tourism in the country. AFH sales have also been hit by consumer concerns with regard to public gatherings, in…

The easing of COVID-19 related restrictions as the threat from the disease was perceived to be less severe led to an upturn in the performance of away-from-home (AFH) tissue and hygiene in 2021. The COVID-19 crisis led to a marked decline in sales of…

With society gradually opening up in 2021, away-from-home tissue and hygiene registered a healthy increase in current value sales, after a severe decline in 2020. In particular, the opening of hotels and restaurants and schools and many people also…

India faced a devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2021, which led to a significant increase in hospital admissions. Although the virus impacts people of all age groups, older people are more susceptible to severe…

The horeca channel is the dominant contributor to away-from-home tissue sales in the Egyptian market. In 2021, the revival of activity in the horeca channel helped to drive recovery in AFH tissue sales as consumers resumed more normal lifestyles and…