Latin America

In 2023, the tissue and hygiene landscape in Peru registered positive retail value growth, while retail volume results were challenged by ongoing inflation. The increase in the prices of supplies, packaging and transportation has been a key challenge…

Tissue and hygiene sales in 2023 were mainly characterised by the normalisation of society with consumers returning to their places of work and education and the resumption of pre-pandemic habits. Categories related to consumption at home, such as…

Supply chain challenges and higher global cellulose raw material prices led to higher average retail prices for tissue and hygiene products in 2023. Despite inflation, the reopening of society favoured products that offer convenience as lifestyles…

While 2022 marked the end of the transition back to normalcy following the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 witnessed a return to full normalcy, bolstered by favourable macroeconomic conditions which spurred growth in the tissue and hygiene industry in…

The tissue and hygiene market was again recording positive growth in real value terms in Latin America in 2023. Nappies/diapers/pants is underperforming, with birth rates in some countries declining, and has even lost its spot as the biggest category…