Italy

Environmental awareness increased in Italy and generated a strong trend towards smaller pack sizes. These are easy to use on the go, carry in bags, maintain freshness and produce less waste both in terms of packaging materials and product waste. The ...

Italy’s Ease of Doing Business ranking is improving, but remains far below regional peers. High levels of unemployment and tax rates continue to hamper the nation’s competitiveness. A rigid labour market and an increasing shortage of labour, mainly ...

With production of USD890 billion, Western Europe is the world’s second-largest metal producer, after Asia Pacific. Western Europe’s metal industry is highly developed with production per capita of USD1,777. Despite output plunging in the major ...

Muslim consumers increasingly seek beauty products that align with their religious beliefs while not compromising their modern Western European values. Lack of halal certification standards, and low consumer awareness of the benefits of halal ...

Italian households are divided along urban and rural lines, with social, political and economic factors splitting them apart. A rise in divorces is driving the surge of single-person and single-parent households in the country. Connectivity stood out...

Consumers increasingly consider eyewear as a fashion accessory. Many fashion brands have entered the eyewear arena with successful developments in licensed spectacle frames and sunglasses. Both luxury brands and low- to mid-priced apparel and ...

In 2018, sales of spectacle lenses were driven by multifocal products and formulas that help to prevent conditions such as myopia and astigmatism. Increased exposure to electronic devices and small screens created a larger consumer base of people ...

Ageing populations, market saturation, and social habits - particularly use of contraceptives - impact the demand for sanitary protection in Western Europe. However, a number of trends are benefiting performance, such as the shift to ultra thin ...

With the country facing a multitude of challenges – including slow economic recovery, political instability, high unemployment and an ageing population - consumers remain cautious and spending subdued. Moreover, a “brain drain” is occurring as many ...

The cigarettes category is decreasing constantly and this trend is so strong and clear that major players such as Philip Morris have affirmed that the “future is smokeless”. Scientific evidence of damage caused by cigarette smoking has driven the ...

In 2017, cigarettes kept decreasing in volume and value sales terms, due to an incremental deterrence among Italian society, which is increasingly aware and informed of health risks connected with cigarette smoking. 10-stick packs were abolished by ...

Vapour products grew significantly in 2017 because of the decline of cigarettes and because of a deep change in Italian lifestyle. European guideline 2014/40/EU on Tobacco Products (TPD) and the Italian Legge di bilancio in 2017 entailed the ...

While cigarettes suffered in 2017 due to their bad reputation and prices rising, cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco gained ground and acquired new consumers thanks to having a better reputation and lower prices. While cigarette smoking is now ...

Nigeria’s economy is highly dependent on its hydrocarbon sector. Therefore, lower oil prices hit exports and government revenues hard. However, as both oil prices and production increase, Nigeria’s economy is expected to continue to grow. Poor ...

The Italian economy’s signs of recovery supported consumer confidence and benefited bags and luggage sales overall in 2018, with Italians feeling less anxious about non-essential spending. However, millennials in particular are investing more in ...

Overall, jewellery sales recorded an encouraging value growth rate in 2018 in Italy for the second consecutive year. Domestic demand for jewellery showed signs of recovery in 2017 thanks to the improved economic situation, with GDP again recording ...

Personal accessories in Italy registered an encouraging performance in value terms in 2018, recovering from the weak trend earlier in the review period. Thanks to the economy recording GDP growth since 2016, consumer confidence is improving and had a...

Watches recorded strong retail value growth in 2018, benefiting from the improved economic situation in Italy linked to the strong performance of the Eurozone. The Italian GDP continued to register weak growth, encouraging consumer confidence and ...

In Italy, electronic devices are growing in penetration. Although these devices offer an alternative to handwriting, retail value growth of writing instruments was only partially curbed by their increasing usage. Writing instruments recorded weak ...

In June 2017, a major incident in a public square in Turin during a soccer match projection resulted in the injury of 1,500 people. In response, the Italian government introduced new regulations, including a restriction on glass packaging during ...