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.
Tea is set to maintain growth in current value terms in 2023, with this expected to be driven by fruit/herbal tea. Consumers are looking for non-caffeinated tea as an efficient way to provide hydration. This is leading to growing sales of…
Small cooking appliances experienced dynamic growth in 2020, followed by a year of stagnation in 2021, as COVID-19 prevailed over the country in these two years. Home seclusion, or sugomori in Japanese, was a hot term back then. Households needed…
In Japan, more than 80% of volume sales and more than 90% of value sales within refrigeration appliances come from a single category: freestanding fridge-freezers – this is “the” refrigeration appliance in the country. Being a hot and humid country…
The volume growth of personal care appliances in 2023 is expected to be negligible. This is an important category within consumer appliances, as it is seen as part of wellness. Personal care has always been, and will remain, an important trend, not…
Although expected to see another year of retail current value decline in 2023, chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks continues to dominate other hot drinks. These are seasonal beverages, and as a product with limited diversification in taste,…
Microwaves saw a positive impact on its volume sales in the first two years of the pandemic, in 2020 and 2021. This was the period with the most home seclusion, when people needed to cook and eat at home more frequently. Cooking from scratch, warming…
Large cooking appliances in Japan is composed of built-in hobs, ovens, and both built-in and freestanding cooker hoods. Range cookers are not common in Japan, while ovens is only a small category, as the space in kitchens is usually limited, and the…
Hot drinks is set to see decline in retail volume terms and a stagnant performance in retail current value terms in 2023. Tea is set to see the best performance, maintaining current value growth, while coffee is set to see stagnancy due to the…
In Japan, the front-loading format of washer dryers and washing machines is called the drum type (drum-gata), whereas top-loading products are called the vertical type (tate-gata). Generally speaking, many washer dryers fall under the drum type in…
Blenders is expected to account for over 70% of sales of food preparation appliances in volume terms in Japan in 2023. The performance of blenders is therefore crucial to the performance of the overall category. Blenders is set to see another year of…