Czech Republic

Yoghurt and sour milk products are expected to perform well in 2021, with increased retail current value and retail volume sales, in spite of hefty retail price rises. Yoghurt and sour milk benefitted from the pandemic, as common ingredients in…

Other dairy is not expected to perform well in 2021, with retail current value decline and significant retail volume decline. Significant price hikes also dampened growth. While most products are expected to register minimal or negative current value…

Drinking milk products are not expected to perform well in 2021, with retail current value and volume decline. The decline in milk products is expected to be driven by poor value and volume sales in shelf stable milk, which is the largest drinking…

Retail volume sales of cheese are expected to register a moderate increase in 2021. Retail current value is also expected to rise, but will partly be driven by hefty price increases. Packaged hard cheese is expected to outperform all other cheese…

Butter and spreads is not expected to perform strongly in 2021, with retail volume sales slightly down and minimal increase in retail current value. Margarine and spreads is expected to be the strongest performer. It benefitted from a surge in baking…

Baby food is expected to register current value growth. However, much of this value growth is expected to be driven by price rises, fuelled by several factors, including rising energy prices. Also, with a continuing declining birth rate, there is…

As a landlocked country, the Czech Republic lacks access to renewable water reserves thus needs to increase investments into water collection, treatment and supply facilities. Its energy and transportation sectors heavily rely on imported fossil fuel…

After plummeting in 2020, international travel is set to see a much slower bounce-back in 2021 than initially expected, reaching only just over half of the pre-pandemic levels of inbound arrivals and outbound departures. Strict lockdowns and…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state of emergency restrictions were first introduced in the Czech Republic in March 2020, which resulted in the closure of nearly all lodging establishments, spa facilities and travel agencies. State borders shut down,…

After a significant decline in 2020, with sales falling by more than half due to the impact of COVID-19, travel intermediaries is set to see a rebound in 2021, although sales will remain well below the level seen in 2019, before the pandemic emerged.…

In current value terms, lodging is set to see a rebound in 2021, although sales will remain well below the level seen in 2019. During 2020 and 2021, hotels have not been used as COVID-19 quarantine hotels or as alternative spaces for working from…

Car rental in the Czech Republic is over reliant on inbound business and leisure tourism, and was therefore hit hard by inbound travel disruptions due to COVID-19 in 2020. The slow bounce-back in international travel in 2021 due to continued…

Passenger numbers and the value sales of airlines saw a dramatic decline in 2020 due to COVID-19. This continued into the first half of 2021, when the Czech Republic was still massively impacted by the pandemic and its associated limitations on…

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Volume sales of wearable electronics are set to post double-digit growth in 2021, a performance driven in large part by the considerable demand for both smart watches and activity watches (analogue), with the latter expected to post by far the…

In 2021, portable players will continue their decline as most major players have exited or scaled back their range of portable media players due to a lack of demand. Nowadays, connectivity obsessed consumers use wearable electronics or smartphones…

Despite the global shortage of microchips, the Czech smartphone product area is expected to see mild growth in 2021 compared to 2020. The largest growth is expected to be seen during the last quarter of 2021, well ahead of the Christmas season. Sales…

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-car entertainment has been in long-term decline due to the growing penetration of smartphones in the Czech Republic. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this situation worsened due to the restrictive measures on…

In line with the performance during the review period, volume sales of digital cameras will continue to fall in 2021. Indeed, for the most part, the factors behind the decline in 2021 will have little, if anything, to do with the impact of the…

The gradual migration to DVB-T2 broadcasting that started in November 2019 has been boosting sales of televisions in recent years. In 2020, DVB-T2 was still becoming popular, having been further accelerated by numerous country lockdowns and the fact…