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...
Sales of combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco continued to decline in both volume and real value (at constant 2022 prices) terms in 2022. Any sales increases in current value terms were mostly being…
Cigarette sales in Ireland registered significant volume declines in 2022, as a result of a return to pre-pandemic levels of international travel, which saw cross-border and duty-free sales increase once more. This trend, which has been seen across…
Increasing cross-border tobacco sales, competition from illicit trade, another tax increase that further reduced the price gap between economy cigarettes and fine cut tobacco, and the emergence of closed system single use products negatively impacted…
Closed-system single-use vapes continued to be the highest-performing e-vapour product in this category in current retail value terms in 2022, thanks to widespread availability through a range of retail channels and local consumers, particularly…
Additional duty increases in 2022 compounded increasing inflation. As a result, price-conscious local consumers are migrating toward more affordable products, such as economy cigarettes, or turning to illicit trade, which increased in 2022. Sales of…