Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers

Health and beauty specialists registered a slight decline in value sales in 2021, due to its largest channel, chemists/pharmacies, registering a significant drop in value sales, as consumers were less concerned about COVID-19. Also, as many consumers…

Chemists/pharmacies and drugstores/parapharmacies saw growth in outlet numbers accelerate significantly during the latter part of the review period as multiple large chains pursued aggressive expansion strategies in Ecuador. The most dynamic players…

Due to pandemic, consumers are increasingly following global trends and focusing more on their health and self-care. Thus, consumers have been visiting health-focused specialists to acquire preventative, immunity-boosting products (such as vitamins)…

Health related retail value sales continued its healthy growth trajectory in 2021, with optical goods stores and beauty specialist retailers also managing to register retail value sales growth. Vitamins and dietary supplements specialist retailers…

In 2020, beauty specialist retailers had already experienced a considerable decline due to COVID-19. Sales then also took a major hit in 2021 during the local COVID-19 outbreak in mid-2021, with retail value sales plunging as consumers had fewer…

Health and beauty specialist retailers suffered a significant drop in current value growth in 2020. With high inflation, due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, consumers experienced a decline in purchasing power and were increasingly price…

To enhance the shopping experience, mass health and beauty specialist retailers started to offer shade matching for multiple cosmetics in the last decade. Base facial make-up involves concealer, foundation, and powder. Applying these products is a…

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…

Health and beauty specialists registered higher value growth in 2021 than 2020, as the economy recovered and along with it, consumer purchasing power. There continued to be strong demand for products such as vitamins and supplement to boost immune…

In 2021, there was an increase in the current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers. Value sales of beauty retailers recovered, as outlets reopened after several months of mandated closure in the previous year. Pharmacies, too,…

Retailers of health products remained in the focus of shoppers in 2021, as their product assortments and services are highly critical for consumer healthcare and for general wellbeing. Even after maintaining growth during the first year of the…

Health concerns, self-care reasons and the reduced need for beauty products were the main factors impacting the performance of health and beauty specialist retailers during the pandemic in Azerbaijan. Despite a high proportion of low-income…

Given that chemists/pharmacists represent nearly three quarters of the category retail value share, most of the positive impact on health and beauty specialist retailers stemmed from the increased current retail value growth from chemists/pharmacies…

Health and beauty specialists registered current value growth in 2021, though constant value sales actually fell. This was largely due to a fall in spending in chemists/pharmacies, which is the largest product area. With consumers more used to living…

Having seen no more than a moderate decline during 2020, the retail constant value sales (2021 prices) of health and beauty specialist retailers rebounded strongly during 2021, exceeding their pre-pandemic level. The impact of COVID-19 was felt…

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and beauty specialist retailers was diverse. Demand for beauty products such as make-up and cosmetics strongly declined in 2020, and continued to decline in 2021. Indeed, restrictions on mobility, more…