Market research on the tobacco industry. Standardised and cross-c...
Market research on the tobacco industry. Standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market share and brand share data, distribution and industry trends and sub-category level information.
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia was not seen to have had a significant impact on demand for tobacco in 2020. Some consumers faced economic uncertainty as a result of the pandemic, which dictated which products and brands they chose. For…
The Lithuanian economy proved relatively resilient to the pandemic shock. All the same there has been increased unemployment and increased price sensitivity.
Tobacco sees positive growth in retail volume terms. With the Government’s ‘circuit breaker’ measures kick in as to curb community COVID-19 transmission, Singaporeans are asked to work and study from home. Home seclusion induces stress in some people…
The COVID-19 pandemic had limited impact on tobacco consumption in 2020 as the majority of consumers are habitual consumers, whose consumption is not explicitly linked to social settings but more often to stressful situations. Consequently, rather…
COVID-19 did not have a direct impact on the supply of tobacco products to Ireland in 2020. Retailers were able to obtain stock as usual and inventory did not deplete significantly for tobacco products. COVID-19 did however inadvertently affect the…
Tobacco products were negatively impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, leading to volume declines for cigarettes and cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco. Manufacturers recorded sales declines following the publication from the World Health…
2020 was an interesting year for tobacco in Slovakia. A continuing shift was witnessed from cigarettes to various alternatives, such as heated tobacco, smoking tobacco, oral tobacco and cigars and cigarillos, which kept overall sales of tobacco in…
During the COVID-19 lockdown in India in 2020, the Indian government deemed tobacco products as non-essential. Stakeholders were asked to stop the manufacturing, distribution and sale of tobacco products. Moreover, the leading distribution channel…
Estonia weathered the pandemic shock better than many of its peers in 2020, but nonetheless there was a negative impact on the economy, with rising unemployment and as a result increasing price sensitivity among consumers. Overall, current value of…
Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 smoking prevalence in New Zealand had been declining sharply driven by the government’s efforts to make the country smoke-free by 2025. Further annual tax hikes on cigarettes and fine cut tobacco in January 2020…
Overall, tobacco continued its moderate growth trajectory in terms of retail current value growth in 2020, but this was largely due to the continued rise in excise taxes which has boosted unit prices in the industry. Despite its continued growth,…
Measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in North Macedonia have been having a significant short-term impact on the performance of tobacco in 2020. Though non-essential retail outlets were forced to close during the initial period of lockdown, sales…
Current value sales of tobacco received a boost in 2020, due to price rises across the market and increased demand for the dominant category of cigarettes. Despite a gradual ongoing decline in smoking prevalence amongst the adult population in Chile,…
COVID-19 had a positive impact on tobacco sales in Taiwan in 2020, with two key trends evident in the year. Firstly, there has been a shift in the purchasing of cigarettes from abroad to local in 2020. Before the pandemic, tourists tended to bring…
The main impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on tobacco in Costa Rica was the economic fallout stemming from the pandemic in 2020. Indeed, the economic downturn negatively affected consumers’ disposable incomes levels which therefore changed consumer…
Tobacco was still able to achieve retail value growth in 2020 despite the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, albeit at much lower levels than that witnessed in 2019, with stable pricing for cigarettes, by far the largest area within tobacco, playing a…
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, partnered with an increase in taxes, value sales of tobacco rose to 12% in 2020, compared to growth of 3% in 2019. The impact of the first lockdown and the closing of the borders led to stable tobacco sales.…
Vietnam was able to contain COVID-19 much better than many other markets, with the government taking swift and decisive action to control its spread, including closing the country’s borders to inbound arrivals. While these measures were effective in…
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, views around smoking in the Dominican Republic have remained fairly normal in 2020. Despite discussions about the potential dangers of smoking and susceptibility to the virus in the media, this has not been…