Russia

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Gardening continued to record the fastest current value growth in home and garden in Russia in 2018. Its popularity was a direct reflection of the negative impact of an unstable economy over the review period. With Western sanctions remaining in ...

Home furnishings in Russia recorded stable current value growth in 2018, remaining in line with the performance of 2017. Postponed demand and a focus on value for money by local consumers remained the major trends, reflecting the general sluggish ...

With an increasing number of Russians seeking to save money by tackling as much maintenance on their homes as possible themselves, power tools recorded the fastest current value growth in 2018 within home improvement. Consumers continued to renovate ...

Homewares recorded the slowest current value growth within home and garden in Russia in 2018. During times of economic uncertainty, local consumers did not find homewares an essential purchase in comparison to other home and garden categories such as...

Home and garden in Russia posted stable current value growth in 2018 compared to 2017. As with the majority of FMCG markets, home and garden is directly impacted by the general situation of the country’s economy. Real incomes of Russians continued to...

Hot summer of 2018 and enhanced idea of healthy living, finally brought juice/smoothie bars to the leaders of growth within cafés/bars category. Many small outlets, corners and kiosks offering fresh juice started to appear even in the northern part ...

Football Cup enhanced the indicators for all foodservice locations. Thus, foodservice through leisure, despite many of its outlets were temporary presented during one-month period (14 June to 15 July) and only in 11 cities, saw value growth higher ...

2018 appeared to be another hard year for full-service restaurants. What was good for fast food in 2018 appeared to be bad for full-service restaurants, facing another year of turbulence. First of all, Football Cup withdrawn some part of perspective ...

By the end of 2018 Russia was still far from Western Europe and the majority of Eastern Europe in terms of limited-service outlets per capita. This gives a spacious room for market players for further expansion. After big cities were fully packed ...

Despite of all hopes for positive scenario, consumer disposable incomes in Russia showed flat dynamics in 2018, according to Rosstat. At the same time, consumer foodservice posted a way better result compared to 2017. There were a few factors, ...

Despite of market saturation, self-service cafeterias appealed to consumers with their affordable prices and healthy-like menu by the end of research period. Of course it goes about the renovated outlets with a wide choice of meals and nice modern ...

Street stalls/kiosks were dropping in 2018 in the number of outlets and transactions. Retail value sales growth was under the official inflate rate of 4.2% and therefore is representing rather the aspiration of market players to cover costs. One of ...

Magnit is one of the leading retailers in Russia, ranking second in both sales value and number of outlets. The company’s focus is on modern grocery, with a portfolio of convenience stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets, as well as ...

The Russian economy continues with moderate growth, Fixed capital investment growth will accelerate, yet, household consumer demand is expected to slow down on the back of lower real wages growth. Wage growth will slow down from its high rate of ...

The economic recession of 2015 and 2016 led to significant changes in fresh food. Categories such as fish and seafood, nuts, vegetables and fruits suffered the most from the import ban. In these categories, the product assortment available decreased ...

The production of pulses steadily increased in Russia over recent years. All types of pulses are produced domestically, and Russia plays an important role as an exporter of pulses. As for in-country consumption, peas is the most traditional product ...

In Russia, starchy roots is represented mainly by potatoes, and this category is close to saturation. Potatoes are almost fully produced domestically – the share of imports is tiny. Potatoes are sold at very affordable prices, and are treated by ...

White sugar is a saturated category. Domestic production increased over recent years; still, there is stagnation in domestic volumes and retail prices, which remain at a relatively low level. Currently in Russia, per capita sugar consumption is much ...

In contrast to a number of other fresh food categories, the import ban in 2014 had a relatively minor impact on volume sales of vegetables. Cauliflowers and broccoli suffered the most, since this category heavily relied on imports, and some decline ...