Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers

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…

Sales via health and beauty specialists have tailed off during the pandemic, largely as a result of lockdown; with restrictions on socialisation and the workplace, there was less demand for a mix of products including cosmetics, skin care and…

The retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers continued to grow during 2021. COVID-19 drove increased demand for products like dietary supplements and vitamins, as consumers sought to boost their immune systems. However,…

The retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers grew strongly during 2020 and will continue to rise, albeit at a slower pace in 2021. This rise is being driven by the chemists/pharmacies channel, with consumers becoming more…

Health and beauty specialist retailers recorded positive growth during 2021, although this only represented a partial recovery from the double-digit sales declines recorded in the category at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020. One of the…

Within health and beauty specialist retailers, non-essential retailers, including optical goods stores, drugstores/parapharmacies and vitamins and dietary supplements specialist retailers, were negatively impacted by the pandemic in 2020, due to the…

Health and beauty specialist retailers were a big beneficiary from the pandemic during 2020, with their retail constant value sales (2021 prices) rising at their fastest rate in well over a decade. This strong performance was particularly notable…

Over 2020, only drugstores/parapharmacies registered positive retail current value growth. Other health and beauty specialist retailers suffered more from reduced demand during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, when only stores offering essential…

Health and beauty specialist retailers was negatively affected by the pandemic, with current value declines in both 2020 and 2021. Despite the lack of official restrictions in the country, consumers tried to avoid social contact and therefore…

Value sales via health and beauty specialist retailers continued to be dominated by chemists/ pharmacies. These stores showed some resilience following the emergence of the pandemic, recording positive value growth compared to the declines recorded…

Physical health and beauty specialist retailers witnessed a partial recovery in sales in 2021, with all channels witnessing some growth, although the extent of this growth varied greatly. Therefore, it is important to contextualise this increase.…

The performance achieved by health and beauty specialist retailers in 2020 differed between the categories depending on the level of affectation from COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of their physical stores and capacities allowed. It was…

Beauty products in Indonesia are quite diverse, ranging from traditional products to those targeted at certain groups, such as Muslim women. With Muslims representing around 85% of the Indonesian population, a significant number of women only…

Health and beauty specialist retailers witnessed mixed performances across the different channels in 2020 with COVID-19 having a big impact on consumers’ purchasing behaviour. With consumers spending considerable amounts of time at home, including…

The gradual resumption of most social situations over the course of 2021 supported improving sales through health and beauty specialist retailers in Chile. Beauty specialist retailers witnessed the return of consumers to categories beyond skin and…

The retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers declined marginally during 2020 but rebounded in 2021. Chemists/pharmacies actually benefitted from the emergence of COVID-19 and related lockdown measures in 2020. They were…

Drugstores/parapharmacies was one of the few channels allowed to remain open since the start of the pandemic, as it was deemed to be an essential business. For most consumers, they were a short escapist tour – and bigger chains invested in such an…

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…