France

Despite ambitious labour market and tax reforms, long-term challenges are set to persist in the future for France, including an elevated structural unemployment rate, high public debt, the COVID-19 crisis, and rising global economic uncertainty, ...

In 2018, the French government introduced a 5-year investment plan for 2018-2022, with a budget of EUR57.1 billion. EUR4.9 billion is set to be allocated to healthcare, and will be distributed between hospital renovations, telemedicine, the ...

The COVID-19 lockdown is reported to have arrived at the worst possible moment for car rental companies in France. Thus, the steep decline in the category in the wake of the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) followed a significant slowdown in the ...

All countries have been impacted by the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020, with France one of the worst affected, not least in terms of tourism flows. As in most countries, the number of trips collapsed from mid-March-to-mid-May due to the ...

The priority for players is to limit the damage to their business and the industry in summer 2020. The collapse following the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) followed a perceived disappointing performance in 2019. However, as 2018 was considered a...

The COVID-19 lockdown came into effect in mid-March 2020, causing a sudden interruption to a period of robust growth in airlines in terms of value sales and numbers of passengers. Thus, the lockdown has heavily dimmed the outlook for the category. ...

The first consequence of Coronavirus (COVID-19) was the near cessation of tourism flows, which lasted 2-3 months. This was mainly visible during the complete lockdown from mid-March to mid-May 2020, but continued into the transition period, with no ...

Unlike consumer foodservice outlets, hotels were authorised to open during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown in France. However, the overwhelming majority remained closed by the end of April 2020 for profitability reasons. Lockdown, the closure of ...

In Q3 2020, global economic activity levels remain significantly below normal. Under the baseline forecast the global economy is headed for the worst global recession since the great depression of the 1930s, with global output set to contract by 3-6%...

As it was for alcoholic drinks overall, 2019 was another annus horribilis for wine in terms of volume sales, due to French consumers increasingly choosing to drink less wine while opting instead for wine of higher quality. While 2018 marked the end ...

On-trade and (especially) off-trade volume sales of cider/perry continued to decline in 2019, as the French continued to limit the quantity of their consumption to favour quality. While sales of cider remained stable or experienced limited decline ...

Overall volume sales of beer slowed down in 2019 after enjoying what was only a temporary boost from consumers gathering over beer to support the French football team during the FIFA World Cup matches in 2018, and given the ongoing decline in sales ...

Alcoholic drinks was suffering from structural decline in France throughout the review period prior to the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, with beer being the only category to post positive total volume growth due to growing consumer interest in ...

While exports of French spirits were doing rather well in 2019, this was not the case for local sales of spirits, which were hampered over the year by an exceptional conjunction of events. First, the disruptive “Yellow Jackets” movement of 2018 was ...

Volume and current value growth rates for wearable electronics in France in 2020 look set to be markedly slower than those recorded in 2019. While this is partly due to increasing maturity, the main reason for the projected slowdown is the COVID-19 ...

Due to the advent of smartphones with increasingly sophisticated camera and video recording functions, imaging devices is in long-term decline in France. COVID-19 will exacerbate the downward trend in 2020, with rates of decline in overall volume and...

Home audio and cinema sales in France have been in decline for several years, with the category posting negative results in volume and current value terms throughout the review period. This is partly due to maturity, but mainly the result of consumer...

Demand for computers and peripherals increased during the nationwide lockdown imposed between mid-March and mid-May 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19 in France. This was primarily due to a dramatic rise in the number of people working from home, ...

Most new cars sold in France now come with factory-installed speakers and media players as standard, while many also have built-in navigation systems. As a result, in-car entertainment has been in decline for several years, with sales largely driven ...

Mobile phones volume sales in France have been in decline for a number of years, primarily due to saturation and the trend towards longer replacement cycles. These challenges have been compounded by the sharp economic recession that has resulted from...