Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, sp...
Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, specialist knowledge and a comprehensive breakdown of key market data. Our research identifies key strategic themes relevant across the region, while also providing a more granular unders...
Nicotine pouches continued to exhibit the most dynamic growth within the smokeless tobacco category. However, compared to 2021, the growth rate slightly slowed down, attributed to the increased cross-border trade with Sweden, which almost reached…
Following several years of volume decline, cigar and cigarillos saw a very marginal increase in retail volume sales in 2022. Border trade is typical in tobacco products within the Nordic region, and the return of Norwegian buyers in Sweden supported…
The increase in tobacco taxes in 2022, combined with inflation-fuelled price rises, led to double-digit current value growth in cigarillos. However, with lower prices compared to cigarettes, cigarillos have become a more popular option for consumers…
Resuming cross-border trade in Sweden led to a decline in domestic sales of tobacco products in Norway in 2022, following a spike in sales during the COVID-19 years of 2020-2021. Norwegians have a preference for purchasing tobacco products in Sweden…
In line with most tobacco manufacturers in Greece, players in the category de-invested from traditional tobacco products and shifted their focus to new generation options, namely e-vapour products and heated tobacco. These new generation products are…
Sweden’s smoking population is extremely low by European and indeed global standards, with numbers continuing to decline in 2022 as consumers transition away from cigarettes. This translated into another year of decline for cigarettes, at least in…
Although smoking prevalence continued to decline in Portugal, despite the gradual shift to non-combustible products, retail volume and current value sales increased in 2022. The recovery of tourism in the aftermath of the pandemic supported a rebound…
In 2022, the retail volume sales of cigarettes experienced a decline in Norway as a result of the reopening of borders and the resumption of cross-border trade, particularly with Sweden. The popularity of tobacco products in cross-border trade and…
Retail volume sales of cigarettes rose, but only very marginally, in 2022. Following over a decade of strong retail volume sales decline, the category is starting to show signs of stabilisation. However, the competition with heated tobacco remained…
After two years of recording positive growth thanks to favourable pandemic-induced conditions, 2022 saw tobacco returning to declining sales in the UK, as it had been registering prior to the pandemic. Volume sales of cigarettes posted a double-digit…