Premium Beauty and Personal Care

In 2021, premium beauty and personal care saw a return to positive current value growth. However, this was largely due to inflation. Most premium beauty and personal care products in Georgia are imported from abroad, and the devaluation of the local…

A healthy share of purchases in premium beauty and personal care categories such as fragrances, skin care and colour cosmetics is made in duty free shops at airports during international holidays and business travel. However, due to the second wave…

With Uruguay’s borders being closed, sales of premium fragrances registered strong growth in volume and value terms in 2021. Consumers usually buy premium fragrances in duty-free shops, but during 2021 the demand was exclusively focused on stores…

Premium beauty and personal care suffered heavy losses in 2020. This was partly because mass beauty and personal care was more widely available through channels that remained open during the height of the pandemic (eg supermarkets, hypermarkets,…

Premium skin care saw remarkable current value growth once again in 2021, driven by the ongoing premiumisation trend and more segmented demand from consumers. As awareness of healthy living is increasing rapidly and consumers are paying more and more…

Having declined at a double-digit rate during 2020, retail constant value sales of premium beauty and personal care began to recover in 2021 but remained below their pre-pandemic peak. During the review period prior to the onset of the pandemic,…

In 2021, the demand for premium products within beauty and personal care in Germany continued to be shaped by the pandemic situation. Following the 2020 sales slump, when the first year of the pandemic resulted in ongoing home seclusion and less…

The fluctuation in foreign exchange had already caused a shift from premium to mass products in Turkey and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in lower purchasing power and increased consumer spending caution. In order to appeal to value-conscious…

In 2021, sales of premium beauty and personal care products bounced back. While the increase in retail value sales was not enough to compensate for the fall in sales in the previous year, the category is on a growth trajectory again. There are a…

Premium beauty and personal care witnessed a strong rebound in 2021 in current value terms after a substantial decline in 2020. There was an influx of imported products after a difficult year for international players in 2020, when COVID-19…

Premium beauty and personal care achieved positive growth in 2021 as it began its recovery from the significant decline seen in 2020, aided in large part by the role taken by parapharmacies. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

The 2020 predictions that Vietnam had successfully controlled the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its financial fallout proved somewhat premature. At the end of September 2021 (Q3), Vietnam’s working age unemployment rate was higher than in…

Premium fragrances was the strongest performer in 2021 within Chilean beauty and personal care. This was driven by access to additional disposable incomes as consumers were permitted to make withdrawals from the pension system, in addition to the…

In the second semester of 2021, the advancement of Brazil’s mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign resulted in some flexibility in socialising, but consumers remained extremely cautious in terms of taking international trips due to the instability of the…

Premium beauty and personal care had outstanding performance in 2021, as affluent consumers were less affected by the economic instability of the pandemic than low-income consumers. In addition, with less opportunity to spend their money on…

Like the mass segment, premium beauty and personal care showed an impressive turnaround in total current value sales terms in 2021 as the easing of the pandemic and the accompanying economic recovery strengthened consumer confidence and saw more…

Premium beauty and personal care saw a dramatic rise in retail volume and current value sales in 2021 as consumer demand rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic. The main reason for this is because premium fragrances, which is by far the largest product…

While the majority of premium beauty and personal care products recorded value sales declines in 2020, this was significantly reduced in 2021 in terms of the number of categories experiencing a second consecutive drop. Strongly aligned with the…

Having declined at a double-digit rate during 2020, retail constant value sales (2021 prices) of premium beauty and personal care rebounded in 2021 but remained well below their pre-pandemic level. During 2020, the economic shock of the pandemic made…

Premium beauty and personal care is seeing booming sales, as pandemic restrictions start to lift and lifestyles return to some sense of normality, with more socialising and opportunities to wear cosmetics and fragrances. Consumers with more stable…