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With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing a multitude of challenges for eyewear, including store and optometrist closures, economic constraints and shifting consumer needs, sales of all eyewear products, including contact lenses and solutions, spectacles ...

Sunglasses will deliver the weakest performance within eyewear in 2020, as closed stores, travel restrictions and economic constraints deliver a triple-blow to the fashion-led category. Months of store closures across the US amid lockdowns to curb ...

As a result of store and optometrist closures, economic constraints and shifting consumer needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, spectacles sales were seeing a strong decline in 2020. Although consumer needs for readymade reading glasses, spectacle ...

Thanks to their essential nature, ease of replenishment through e-commerce, and rising popularity in recent years, contact lenses and solutions have been faring best among the major eyewear product categories since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The toys and games industry sees positive growth, although with setbacks due to Coronavirus. In traditional toys, long-term opportunities lie in licensing and categories combining play, education and skill-building experience. Broader exposure to ...

The US economy is expected to decline sharply in 2020. The fallout related to the economic and social measures in place to contain the COVID-19 virus will be disastrous for the US. The effects of the pandemic will be felt on both domestic demand and ...

The tobacco market is expected to record a value sales decline at constant 2019 prices in 2020 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the tobacco industry has historically been mostly immune to economic crises, the shifts within the ...

In February 2020 the House of Congress voted to ban flavoured cigarettes and flavoured e-cigarette liquids. Some states and municipalities such as Massachusetts and San Francisco have already implemented their own bans. While the measure is unlikely ...

In 2019, cigarillos saw a turnaround in its performance, recording declining sales after the category, in 2018, saw some of the highest growth rates among the various tobacco categories. Cigarillos had been benefitting from the ever rising prices of ...

2019 was a year of significant challenges for e-vapour products in the US. Concerns over the youth uptake of nicotine products, and especially vapour products, reached new heights as government and public health officials investigated the appeal of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on certain areas of beauty and personal care in 2020, with the effects of the country’s efforts to slow the spread of the virus, such as lockdowns, business closures and travel restrictions, negatively ...

Premium beauty and personal care’s growth decelerated in 2019 in current value terms, driven by declines in premium colour cosmetics, which made up the greatest share of the premium category in 2019. 2019 marked a turning point for premium colour ...

Following the lead of Hawaii, nations and states such as Palua, Bonaire, the US Virgin Islands and others have pushed for legislation that would aim to reduce the use of sunscreen containing allegedly harmful ingredients for coral reefs. The ...

Following years of strong gains, colour cosmetics in the US continued to see a worsening performance in 2019 as consumers shifted to skin care and fashion and beauty enthusiasts reduced their spend. Consumers switched to skin care products as health ...

In 2019, deodorants experienced its strongest growth since 2015, helped by a notable performance by deodorants without aluminium. Amidst concerns about the alleged health risks associated with aluminium in deodorants, including, potentially, breast ...

Little occurred in 2019 to help the men’s razors and blades industry in the US recover from the decline it has been experiencing in recent years. Social norms in the US continue to relax, enabling men of all ages to embrace facial hair in ...

E-commerce continued its growing relevance in mass beauty and personal care in 2019 as more consumers in the US shifted their purchases online. With the convenience of delivery, more options and greater communication from brands, consumers can make ...

The natural hair movement made waves in 2019, with California becoming the first state to pass an anti-hair discrimination law, the CROWN (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) Act. With New York quickly following its lead, ...

Already accounting for the biggest sales in bath and shower, body wash/shower gel’s strong current value growth in 2019 continued to drive the overall category’s performance in 2019. Body wash/shower gel has become the clear preferred option for US ...