Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers

While most retailers registered constant value decline due to soaring inflation in 2021, health and beauty specialists registered positive value growth, largely driven by the uptake in spending on beauty products. With society opened up once again…

Because of the trading headwinds caused by COVID-19, including national lockdown and ongoing social distancing, beauty specialist retailers and optical goods stores saw sales decrease strongly in 2021. Many independent beauty specialist retailers…

Unlike most other retailers, health and beauty specialists registered lower current value growth in 2021 than in 2020. This was largely due to a fall in growth in chemists/pharmacies, which is the largest product area. With consumers more used to…

With changing consumer habits during the COVID-19 crisis, demand for hygiene and personal care products grew whilst demand for certain beauty products, particularly within colour cosmetics categories, fell in 2020. Personal care and hygiene items,…

The outbreak of COVID-19 that started in 2020 and continued in 2021 had a mixed impact on health and beauty specialist retailers resulting in overall current value growth remaining positive but flat. Due to the health crisis, chemists/pharmacies and…

Having slowed significantly during 2020, the rate of growth in the retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers accelerated sharply in 2021. During 2020, demand for cosmetics was undermined by the fact that women were spending…

In 2021, health and beauty specialist retailers barely managed to offset their losses seen in 2020 due to a disparate performance across the channel. Beauty specialist retailers initially appeared to have enjoyed appreciable recovery but failed to…

In contrast to most other non-grocery retail specialists, the rate of growth in constant value sales (2021 prices) of health and beauty specialist retailers accelerated during 2020 and 2021. Heightened local consumer interest in health and wellness…

Health and beauty specialist retailers saw a recovery in value sales in brick-and-mortar stores in 2021. Beauty specialist retailers especially saw a noticeable increase in retail value sales, after a strong decline in the previous year. In 2021,…

Health and beauty specialists registered current value growth in 2021, though growth was a little lower than in 2020. This was due to growth for its largest channels drugstores/parapharmacies being lower than for the previous year, as consumers were…

Despite the sanitary and economic crisis, health and beauty specialist retailers enjoyed moderate growth in current value terms in 2021. The demand for consumer health products rose due to concerns around the spread of COVID-19, with people stocking…

Sales through drugstores/parapharmacies and chemists/pharmacies witnessed strong growth as a result of the pandemic in 2020, as they were considered to be essential stores and were permitted to remain open during the lockdown periods. Many consumers…

In Finland, the health and beauty specialist retailers channel is dominated by chemists/pharmacists. The development of health and beauty specialist retailers depends therefore heavily on the performance of chemists/pharmacies. Most pharmacy sales…

The retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers continue to decline at a double-digit rate during 2021 – albeit at a somewhat more moderate pace than in the previous year. Since the onset of the pandemic, their retail current…

In general, the overall performance of health and beauty specialist retailers is determined largely by the performance of chemists/pharmacies, the category accounts for the vast majority of sales, outlets and retail selling space in health and beauty…

Health and beauty specialist retailers will record good value growth in 2021 after a moderate year in 2020 in which consumer expenditure was down, especially for beauty products. There was little need for such products as they spent less time at the…

The COVID-19 crisis significantly impacted the performance of several areas of health and beauty specialist retailers in the previous year. Beauty specialist retailers were hit especially hard, having to move away from the practice of encouraging…

The pandemic led German consumers to focus on health and hygiene more than they already did before, which benefited channels within health and beauty specialist retailers which focus on pharmaceutical, health and hygiene products. As such, both…

Healthy and beauty specialist retailers registered positive retail value sales growth in 2020 and 2021. However, beauty specialist retailers were negatively affected by the pandemic as sales growth slowed during 2020 and was slightly negative. During…

In 2021, health and beauty specialist retailers registered constant growth in sales, with growth slightly slowed down compared to the previous year. The closure of a significant number of outlets in 2020 and 2021 is part of this, with smaller…