Beauty and Personal Care

In 2022, baby and child-specific products registered modest retail volume growth and a strong increase in retail current value sales. Higher prices in line with high inflation in the country pushed retail value sales at the end of the review period.…

Baby and child-specific products in Belgium benefitted somewhat from the spike in birth rates during the COVID-19 pandemic years, which resulted in a broader consumer base for manufacturers to target. On the negative side, retail price inflation has…

Baby and child-specific products in Denmark continued to register positive current value growth in 2023, driven by price increases. Families continued to place a higher focus on children’s health, hygiene and safety standards, brought on by the…

The overarching trend shaping the baby and child-specific product market in Finland is the decline in birth rates, a phenomenon that persisted throughout 2023. Following the peak witnessed in 2020, birth rates steadily declined to reach their lowest…

As seen in premium adult sun care, sales in baby and child-specific products were boosted by sun care sales thanks to the hot summer in France in 2022. Indeed, sun care suffered notably during the pandemic years, due to the lockdowns, and then…