Health and Beauty Specialist Retailers

Health-focused channels, such as drugstores/parapharmacies and chemists/pharmacies, were less affected by the COVID-19 crisis than other areas of health and beauty specialist retailers in 2020, as they were deemed essential and allowed to remain open...

There were mixed performances amongst the channels within health and beauty specialist retailers in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The more resilient performance of outlets selling health products was not sufficient to avoid an overall ...

As essential businesses during the lockdown, health and beauty specialist retailers registered only a marginal drop in overall current value terms in 2020, due to the stronger performance of chemists/pharmacies, the largest category. However, overall...

In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers focused heavily on the health and hygiene, which benefitted channels in health and beauty specialist retailers focused on pharmaceutical, health and hygiene products. As such, both ...

Within the channel, beauty specialist retailers were most affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in 2020. The outbreak of COVID-19 in Chile quickly resulted in the nationwide closure of non-essential businesses, which included many beauty ...

Prior to the pandemic, health and beauty specialist retailers gradually improved its performance over the review period and managed to recover from the previous decade of economic turmoil. This was mainly a result of the overall optimistic economic ...

The pandemic caused significant fluctuations in the retail landscape, as the lockdown and social distancing restrictions had an impact on sales. The demand for OTC medications, vitamins and dietary supplements experienced a surge, causing health and ...

The rate of growth in retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers slowed sharply in 2020. The number of health and beauty specialist retailers also declined during the year. Reduced opening hours due to curfew rules played a ...

Within health and beauty specialist retailers, only drugstores/parapharmacies and chemists/pharmacies were allowed to remain open during the country lockdown. Many items sold very well, such as hygiene and disinfection products, cleaning products, ...

The impact of COVID-19 was felt in contradictory ways across different sectors of the Israeli health and beauty specialist retailers industry, largely due to differing essential business classifications. Drugstores and parapharmacies as well as ...

Current value sales are set to fall in each of the separate health and beauty specialist retailer categories in 2020 as result of the pandemic. However, some channels have performed better than others. Chemists/pharmacies is the only model to see ...

Chemists/pharmacies and drugstores/parapharmacies were not mandated to close during the lockdown. Essential stores selling grocery, medication and sanitary products were allowed to remain open. Chemists/pharmacies posted the highest sales growth ...

Women in Saudi Arabia have topped the global charts in spending on makeup and skincare products, making it one of the leading world’s cosmetics capitals. The biggest spenders are Saudi women, who spend an average of USD909 per year on products in ...

Health and beauty specialists benefitted from COVID-19, with healthy current value growth, that was similar to the previous year. However, there was some disparity in performance between the different channels and beauty and optical goods stores ...

The retail current value sales of health and beauty specialist retailers declined for the first time in many years during 2020. Demand for cosmetics was undermined by the fact that women were spending more time at home – with a significant of them ...

Prior to the pandemic, health and beauty specialist retailers continued to record stable levels of growth in Serbia. This growth was due to two very big and strong chains within chemists/pharmacies, Lilly and Drogerie Markt, that recorded high levels...

While pharmacies were allowed to remain open during lockdown because they were deemed to be essential stores, the COVID-19 crisis significantly impacted the performance of several areas of health and beauty specialist retailers. Optical goods stores ...

Chemists/pharmacies saw an increased interest in 2020 as consumers became more health-conscious during the pandemic. The channel faced highly fluctuating sales, with purchases peaking in early March before the lockdown period as consumers stockpiled ...

Pharmacies and drugstores were not affected by mandatory store closures during the lockdown, as essential stores selling medication and personal hygiene products were allowed to remain open. Pharmacies sales posted the highest growth in non-grocery ...

Sales via health and beauty specialist retailers were less affected by the pandemic than many other retailing sectors, although sales growth in 2020 was below that seen in 2019 across all types of outlet in the channel. Sales were hit at the ...