Dishwashing

Although the market volume of the hand dishwashing category in Argentina dropped in 2023, its sales climbed in current value terms. The market volume of hand dishwashing fell for the third year in a row, mainly due to the reduced number of meals…

As with home care products in general, cross-border shopping led to a decline in volume sales. Although inflation has soared in Argentina, the depreciation rate against the Uruguayan peso has made dishwashing products purchased in Argentina much…

During the pandemic, demand for dishwashing rocketed as hygiene concerns increased and people spent more time on average at home, thereby creating more dishes to clean. As expected, once the wave of infections and respective health restrictions…

Within hand dishwashing, consumers are shifting from the bar format to the cream/paste format. As more households seek the convenience of an effective grease-remover for their dishes that tends to last longer and is softer on skin, the cream/paste…

The normalisation of consumers' lifestyles post-pandemic, including dining out and ordering takeaways, has continued to reduce demand for dishwashing products, and the category recorded further volume decline in 2023. Dishwashing registered a boom in…

In 2023, Dominicans have shifted back to pre-pandemic lifestyles, since they are eating out more frequently and taking school classes face-to-face, whilst fewer companies have maintained the remote work option. At the same time, home cooking has…

Dishwashing registered healthy volume growth in 2023, as price increases eased. Hand dishwashing continued to account for most value sales and also registered the highest value and volume growth. As such, value sales for automatic dishwashing…

Dishwashing records further volume and value growth during 2023. Strong double-digit value growth has been supported by a second year of price increases as leading players focus on profitability rather than sacrificing margins to be more competitive.…

Dishwashing maintained retail volume and current value growth in 2023, with rises seen for both hand dishwashing, and all categories within automatic dishwashing. While pandemic-related restrictions on movement had been lifted, the continued…

In 2023, hand dishwashing saw limited growth in volume terms, although this was an improvement on the declines seen in the year prior. Hand dishwashing decreased in 2022 as Colombians started spending more time out of the home after the COVID-19…

In Brazil, dishwashing recorded high single-digit retail value growth, strongly influenced by a recurrent inflationary effect on current unit prices in 2023. However, in comparison to the previous year, the Brazilian economy showed signs of…

2022 marked a reversal of the positive trend witnessed in the preceding two years, characterised by an increase in demand for dishwashing. Unfortunately, this negative trend persisted into 2023. In 2022, the decline in retail volume sales could be…