Philippines

Philippine energy sector’s reliance on fossil fuels and coal is complicating the country’s aim to reduce carbon emissions. Despite high levels of precipitation, the country lacks water collection and treatment facilities leaving 7.2% of population ...

Pet care in the Philippines demonstrated continued improvement in its performance in 2020. This was underpinned by increased sales of dog food, with the increasing popularity of dogs as pets, a greater propensity for owners to feed their dogs ...

Pet products saw an improved performance in 2020 compared to 2019, with pet healthcare being a key contributor to growth. Flea/tick treatments, in particular, hold the lion’s share of pet healthcare, driven by the high interest in dogs as pets. ...

The category’s growth remained stable in 2020, with potential performance continuing to be adversely affected by alternatives such as live insects/worms, which can be fed to some fish species and reptiles. The category’s growth is expected to remain ...

Cat food saw a continued improvement in its growth performance in 2020 compared with 2019, in both current value and volume terms. Cat food is expected to benefit from growing interest in cats as household pets, as cats are carnivores and thus ...

Dog food saw faster growth in both value and volume terms in 2020 than in 2019. This was partly linked to the continued humanisation of pets, better treatment of household pets, and the increased popularity of dogs as pets. Owners of purebred dogs ...

Despite the ongoing increase in the number of internet users in the Philippines including those that access the internet via their mobile phones, digital connectivity still lags behind other countries. One of the factors is linked to internet speed ...

Despite local digital connectivity in the Philippines lagging behind other countries, digital commerce continued to record impressive growth in 2019 due to favourable conditions including a stable economy, increasing purchasing power and a growing ...

Digital commerce in the Philippines continued to build upon its strong performance over the review period with impressive growth rates recorded by a number of industries. While retailing remained the largest industry in value sales terms, with a ...

Driven by China and India, Asia’s developing economies saw healthy rates of growth in 2018. Japan’s economic prospects are less favourable however. Too many of Asia’s economies are excessively dependent on exports and large inflows of foreign ...

The Philippines has one of the world’s most vibrant household markets, with rapid growth in the number of households, a dynamic real estate market, and increasing household purchasing power. However, strong economic growth has presented challenges, ...

The economy is growing at a healthy pace. The government’s social distancing COVID-19 measures will weigh on domestic demand, whilst the slowdown abroad, caused by COVID-19 will affect tourism, trade and remittances. Global supply chains have also ...

With the positive economic prospects in the labour market, consumers had higher disposable income for big-ticket items in 2019, and amidst several policy changes impacting the country’s economy, home furnishings continued to benefit from Filipinos’ ...

In 2019, horticulture saw the highest value growth in gardening, with seeds, indoor plants and “other” horticulture respectively posting the highest growth percentages within that category. Watering also saw high value growth over the year. These ...

Urbanisation, positive economic prospects and higher disposable income of consumers have driven the growth of do-it-yourself home improvement in the Philippines, where hand tools and power tools saw the highest value growth in 2019. Within floor ...

The home and garden market in the Philippines again saw strong value growth in 2019, as it continued to be driven by increased new home buying, a rising number of younger consumers setting up their first households and higher interest in growing ...

Homewares posted the highest growth among all home and garden categories in 2019. It continues to flourish for several reasons, one of which is thanks to younger consumers bringing snacks and meals to work to save on costs. This has contributed to ...

Shopping centre operators paid increasing attention to providing foodservice options in order to differentiate their offer from rival retailing options, including e-commerce, and target the growing consumer interest in experience, and particularly ...

Home to fast food giants such as Jollibee and McDonald’s, limited-service restaurants remained the largest category in consumer foodservice in 2019. It also proved to be the fastest-growing category in consumer foodservice during the year, driven by ...

While overall consumer foodservice felt the impact of more challenging economic conditions and less favourable consumer sentiment towards the end of the review period, full-service restaurants is in a stronger position to recover than some other ...