Understand the cultural and socioeconomic influences that shape i...
Understand the cultural and socioeconomic influences that shape industry demand throughout Asia-Pacific, with local insight, market statistics and analysis ranging from strategic regional overview to in-depth coverage by country or city.
The trend towards urbanisation helped to drive demand for microwaves in 2023, with the category showing significant growth over the previous year in retail volume terms. Modern families, especially in large cities, lead increasingly busy lives and…
Microwaves in India continued to experience muted demand in 2023, as consumers restricted their expenditure during a period of economic uncertainty. There were several other factors, such as the return of domestic help, reopening of restaurants,…
Demand for microwaves is expected to continue to see notable growth in 2023. While the removal of pandemic restrictions was somewhat of a headwind for other cooking appliances, solid growth has continued for microwaves, as busy professionals value…
Similar to small cooking appliances, microwaves is expected to have another tough year in China in 2023, with a projected single-digit decline in volume sales, which are set to fall below 10 million units. On the one hand, demand for cooking…
China’s struggles with the Omicron variant across much of the year meant that sales of major appliances declined in 2022, resulting in slightly negative growth for the Asia Pacific region as a whole, given the size of this country’s market. However,…