Euromonitor's apparel and footwear market research reports look at value sales of apparel (clothing) and footwear (shoes and boots). Analysis covers key trends within womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, sportswear and apparel accessories, across 46 countries, including China, Brazil, the UK and the US. Analysis covers leading manufacturers, assessing the company shares and the performance of brands such as Nike, adidas, Levi, Gap and Clarks.
Sales of jeans in the UK suffered significant double-digit retail volume and current value declines in 2020 and into the early part of 2021, as lockdowns and social distancing led to store closures and home confinement for many consumers due to the…
Having plunged by almost a quarter in 2020, retail current value sales of jeans rebounded strongly during 2021 to almost reach their pre-pandemic (2019) peak. After seeing solid retail volume and current value growth rates during most of the forecast…
Online expansion and a digital strategy have gained unprecedented importance for apparel companies to maintain growth momentum in the market. A leading player in jeans in the Chinese market, Levi Strauss Asia Pacific, has been actively propelling…
Apparel and footwear was among the industries hardest hit by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Retail sales were damaged by temporary store closures and weakened consumer spending. The pandemic also accelerated a channel shift to e-commerce in the…
Jeans are an important and constantly present item in the wardrobes of many Germans. Despite the category’s undynamic performance towards the end of the review period, sales remained positive due to impulse purchases that take place mostly through…
Jeans was hard hit by the outbreak of COVID-19, with the heavy decline in sales being down to several factors. With consumers forced to spend considerably more time at home the focus switched from fashion to comfort, with far fewer opportunities to…
After seeing slow but stable current value growth for most of the review period, jeans turned to decline in 2020. However, most of this decrease in sales was due to falling prices, with the volume decline in this year only marginally worse than in…
In 2020, as a result of the lifestyle changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer demand for products in jeans declined. As consumers shifted to work from home arrangements and spent more time in home seclusion as a result of lockdown…
SNI Societé Nationale d'Investissement Corp remains the joint leader (with LC Waikiki) in jeans in company terms, thanks to the popularity of its private label Marjane brand, along with the player’s extensive distribution network.
Although jeans are considered a basic piece of clothing and form part of many Israelis’ wardrobes, the category suffered a severe blow in terms of demand in 2020. The pandemic-induced lockdowns and movement restrictions meant that many consumers did…
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, jeans will witness declining current value sales in 2020 overall. The main reason for this has been due to the closure of store-based retailers as a result of the lockdown between the months of March and May.…
The lockdown and mandated retail store closures negatively affected jeans sales during the spring of 2020. The closure of stationary stores for several weeks affected brands with stores located in shopping centres most. After the lockdown was lifted,…
Lockdown and a reduction in social events led to a decline in sales of jeans in 2020. Many Hungarians stayed at home to work not only during the lockdown period but when the restrictions were eased, although there was some recovery of current retail…
While remaining an extremely popular and versatile type of apparel in Ukraine, sales of jeans fell sharply in 2020. The category was negatively impacted as uncertainty about the future, fewer social activities and the closure of physical stores led…
Jeans was more impacted by COVID-19 than other apparel categories due to the category’s decreasing importance in fashion value amongst Taiwanese consumers. Within menswear, jeans are still perceived as an important business causal item that are…
With large swathes of Swedish society refraining from making non-essential visits to retail outlets in 2020, retailers were not able to prevent the near-collapse of physical retail sales of apparel. Jeans is a product that most consumers prefer to…
The biggest single impact on sales of jeans in Nigeria will be the sharp economic contraction caused by the effects of COVID-19. Nigeria is set to re-enter recession, after having struggled to recover from the crash in oil prices in 2015, and as a…
The jeans category was hit hard by the closure of physical stores introduced in the spring of 2020 as part of measures aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19. Premium and super premium jeans felt a particularly significant impact from the closure…
Demand for jeans among domestic consumers was already in steep decline prior to the pandemic as many consumers opted for athleisure attire due to its versatility and increased comfort levels for both wearing at home and when out and about, while many…
Although sales of jeans declined substantially over the course of 2020, sales declines in the category were mitigated to some extent by the shift towards more casual styles of clothing that was seen in Colombia during the year. Underpinning this…