Dominican Republic

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Understanding the structure, health and potential risks of an economy are important for decision-making within an existing operating environment as well as for expansion strategies. Real GDP growth, inflation and exchange rate fluctuations will ...

Sales via e-commerce have benefited greatly from the onset of the virus in 2020, with value accelerating strongly. The key driver has been the closure of non-essential physical stores at the beginning of the pandemic. This has been relaxed in 2020, ...

COVID-19 has had a broadly positive impact on modern grocery retailing in 2020, with growth accelerating to above average rates for the year. There are a variety of reasons for this. The shuttering of foodservice and on-trade outlets in response to ...

Sales via health and beauty specialist retailers were less affected by the pandemic than many other retailing sectors, although the closure of non-essential outlets at the beginning of lockdown hit sales through beauty specialist retailers and ...

Apparel and footwear specialist retailers are set to be heavily impacted by the pandemic in 2020. There are a multitude of factors underpinning this shift, most obviously the government-imposed closure of non-essential retail at the start of the ...

Mobile e-commerce is set to see a marked spike in growth in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. The sector has benefited from more or less the same drivers as e-commerce. Initially, the key driver was the closure of non-essential physical stores at the...

Sales of direct selling are set to fall in 2020, after consistent value over the review period up to the pandemic. The virus has had multiple direct effects on the operation of the sales model. Initially, distributors suffered from the closure of ...

Traditional grocery retailers have benefited from the same trends as modern grocery retailers, and as a result are set to see a slight increase in value sales growth in 2020. Foodservice outlets including cafés, bars and restaurants were closed for ...

COVID-190 has had less of an impact on retailing in the Dominican Republic than more developed markets, largely because the alternatives to cash-based transactions in physical outlets are yet to be fully developed. Although e-commerce and mobile ...

Mixed retailers in the Dominican Republic is limited to department stores and warehouse clubs. Each of these channels have seen diametrically opposed growth trends in 2020, largely as a result of the impact of COVID-19. Sales via department stores ...

Natural increase will be the sole driver of population expansion in the Dominican Republic up to 2040. While ageing will be a key trend, with rapid growth in the elderly and a decline in the younger age groups, the country will remain relatively ...

Soft drinks sales in the Dominican Republic has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 in 2020, although there has been variation by product type. Broadly speaking, the greatest impact has been a result of the government’s closure of hotels and ...

There was no significant presence for RTD coffee in the Dominican Republic during the review period. The COVID-19 pandemic was furthermore not a conducive time for new product development, particularly in unknown product areas....

Concentrates is by a distance the smallest part of the soft drinks category in the Dominican Republic, and per capita consumption is extremely low. However, volume and current value sales saw a small gain in growth in 2020 as a result of the impact ...

The impact of the virus and the government’s response to it is having severe repercussions on carbonates in the Dominican Republic, by some distance the largest part of soft drinks in the country. On-trade outlets including cafés, bars and ...

Sales of RTD tea (which currently consist wholly of still RTD tea) saw solid growth in 2020, although these products did not see the marked lift in volume sales in the off-trade that characterised many other soft drinks. There is no on-trade ...

COVID-19 is set to affect juice sales in the Dominican Republic in a number of different and often contrary ways. On-trade volumes of juice are set to almost halve over the course of 2020, as foodservice outlets including cafés, bars and restaurants ...

Sports drinks will see the steepest decline in volume sales in 2020, although this decline is slightly exaggerated by movement in what is a comparatively low base. Unlike most other categories, there are no visible on-trade sales of these products, ...

The impact of the virus and the government’s response to it is are set to stall volume sales growth of energy drinks in the Dominican Republic. On-trade demand has been hit very hard, after foodservice outlets including cafés, bars and restaurants ...