Canada

Designer apparel and footwear (ready-to-wear) lagged behind categories such as luxury jewellery and luxury timepieces in 2021 as Canada witnessed several lockdowns, while there were also lingering consumer concerns over the risk posed by COVID-19.…

Luxury goods continues on the path to recovery from the impact of COVID-19 in 2022, after sales returned to growth in 2021. Omicron rates started declining in the early part of 2022, allowing governments in most provinces to roll back their COVID-19…

In 2021, spirits sales through the off-trade contracted as foodservice establishments gradually reopened and consumption shifted back to the on-trade. Despite new waves of COVID-19 in the year, federal, provincial and local governments gradually…

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an overall increase in consumer demand for food and beverages, including alcoholic drinks such as wine and spirits, its positive impact on beer was relatively limited in 2020, and as Canada gradually…

The home insecticides category a slight value growth in 2021, as prices increased, and consumers continued to spend more time at home and focused their purchases on items beyond hygiene-related products.

Sales of colourants trended strongly during the lockdowns in 2020 and the first half of 2021 and resulted in many consumers stockpiling these products as they could not visit hair salons and therefore took care of their hair-dyeing needs at home.…

As Canadian consumers adapted quickly to ordering groceries and other essential goods online, grocery retailers expanded their e-commerce strategies during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. They understood and responded rapidly to the desire of…

Free from packaged food continued to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, despite expectations in the early part of the year that the pandemic would ease. New waves of cases hit in March and April and also in July and August, impacting…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, at-home consumption of coffee increased dramatically. This followed the various COVID-19 related restrictions that saw the closure and decreased capacity of many coffee shops throughout Canada.…

Having declined during both 2019 and 2020, retail volume sales of dishwashers exhibited their fastest rate of growth in more than a decade during 2021. Some sales were shifted from 2020 to 2021 due to COVID-19. During 2020, the economic shock of the…

At the outbreak of COVID-19, modern grocery retailers benefitted from consumers panic-buying, leading to sales rising to two fifths higher than they were in the same week last year. Soft drinks such as carbonates, bottled water and juice, which are…

Energy drinks were one of the soft drinks that experienced panic-buying to some extent at the outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada in 2020. Energy drinks had been gaining popularity pre-pandemic because of promotional activities by major players. They are…

Cider/perry recorded modest growth in 2021, growing from a low base, with sales through the off-trade shifting back to the on-trade as the economy gradually reopened in Canada. Despite new waves of COVID-19 during the year, federal and provincial and…

As pandemic-induced home seclusion eased in 2021, demand for retail tissue softened from the previous year, with facial tissues seeing the strongest decline in both current value and volume sales as the relatively high prices of these products did…

Snacking is a key theme that supports vending sales in Canada. However, with consumers staying home and significantly reduced foot traffic in public and semi-captive environments, such as airports, shopping malls and recreational centres, during…

Direct selling registered fast retail current value growth in 2020, following marginal-to-slight increments earlier in the review period. This spike in growth was mainly triggered by the exigencies of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related…

In 2020, apparel accessories recorded dynamic retail volume and strong retail current value growth. However, this was wholly due to the performance of fabric face masks (“other” apparel accessories), the wearing of which was mandatory, outside the…

Over the review period, juice was seeing increasingly less interest from consumers, largely as a result of the growing health and wellness trend. However, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, current value sales rose notably as the product…

Over the review period, demand for carbonates through both off-trade and on-trade channels had been steadily declining in line with the developing health and wellness trend in the country. This trend is particularly evident amongst the core consumer…

Home improvement continued to see retail current value growth in 2021, albeit at a slower pace than in 2020. The housing market in Canada boomed during 2021, especially in the first half of the year, due to go higher GDP and the relaxation of…