Bolivia

Drinking yoghurt is the largest part of this category in Bolivia, and is set to see a solid return to growth in 2021. This is a result of the end of lockdown. These products, which are most widely available in single serve formats, are typically…

Cream is set to be the best performing product in other dairy in 2021, largely as a result of a return to normality of production. At the height of the pandemic, leading brand operators cut back on production partly as a result of logistical…

The drinking milk products category in Bolivia is wholly made up of shelf-stable milk, with full fat shelf stable milk generating overwhelming majority of volume sales. Volume growth has dipped in 2021, largely as a result of the end of lockdown.…

In 2021, cheese sales are set to see a marked slowdown on 2020. The quarantine imposed by the Bolivian government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic included partial closure of grocery stores and a limit to the number of shopping trips. This made…

Sales of butter and spreads saw a lift in 2020, as large parts of Bolivia’s horeca industry saw partial closure or restriction to home delivery or takeaway. At the same time, consumers spent more time at home under quarantine, giving them the time to…

Most baby food products in Bolivia saw a dip in volume sales in 2020, as families who were forced to self-isolate by quarantine made more meals from scratch. Mothers of infants also tended to breastfeed more during lockdown. Retail restrictions were…

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Spirits sales took a battering from Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020, particularly in the on-trade, where closures and restrictions placed a dampener on this channel’s performance. While Latin American countries tended to see better performances in the…

While Latin America’s digital landscape is less well developed than other regions globally, most measures continue to improve, with Coronavirus (COVID-19) also having served to drive the digital landscape development in 2020. With locked-down…

Sweet biscuits account for the vast majority of the overall sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in Bolivia, where their consumption is widely popularised due to the wide range of both domestic and imported brands across affordable price…

Sugar confectionery is seeing a rebound in 2021, after all sub-categories bar one (namely medicated confectionery) fell into negative figures in 2020. The declines seen in 2020 were due to limited mobility reducing on-the-go and impulse purchases…

Snacks in Bolivia is recovering in 2021, after the drop in sales seen in 2020 due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, figures still remain slightly lower than values recorded in 2019 due to the fact that movements outside the home are…

Savoury snacks is another category which remained in positive figures in 2020, due to consumers spending more time at home and thus stimulating snacking occasions. Savoury biscuits remains by far the largest sub-category in 2021, driven by products…

Historically, the consumption of ice cream in Bolivia was on a trajectory, driven by an increase in the average income in the country in the last decade. However, as of 2019, this growth slowed down due to social conflicts which made it difficult to…

Gum has been in declines since 2017-2018 and thus the event of COVID-19 in 2020 hit the category extra hard. Both bubble gum and chewing gum are rebounding back to healthy positive figures in 2021, however, this is more reactionary to the steep…

Chocolate confectionery is rebounding in 2021, with all sub-categories back in positive figures after the lower sales figures and, in some cases, losses seen in 2020. That said, the declines due to COVID-19 were not so extreme and the category…

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Grocery retailing recorded a sales decline in Latin America in 2020, with most countries seeing worsening performances, including particularly steep declines in Argentina and Peru. Local economies, and therefore many households’ financial…

Bolivia suffers from political instability and an authoritarian government. Economic performance is expected to outpace peers over the long term, given the country’s rich natural resources that are expected to benefit from recovering global demand.…