Consumer Electronics

In 2024, wearable electronics in Denmark is seeing a notable volume shift away from activity wearables to smart wearables. This is driven by the greater functionality offered by smart wearables and the growing availability and competition making them…

In 2024, retail volume sales of portable players continue to decline, primarily due to the increasing substitution of e-readers and portable media players with smartphones and tablets. Households are prioritising multifunctional consumer electronics…

Mobile phones in Denmark is experiencing flat to decreasing volume sales in 2024. Several factors contribute to this trend, including the market's maturity, which has reached a level of established volume sales. Additionally, lengthening product…

The fall in volume sales of in-car entertainment in Denmark in 2024 represents a continuation of the downward trend established during the review period. New car sales featuring advanced, built-in entertainment systems and the widespread substitution…

In 2024, the retail price points for digital cameras continue to rise in Denmark, primarily because these devices are increasingly niche-focused and cater to advanced photography needs. This trend reflects the market shift towards serving photography…

Volume sales of home video products are experiencing growth in Denmark in 2024, primarily driven by improving household sentiment due to a moderating inflation rate and a pause in interest rate hikes. This positive economic environment encourages…

In 2024, retail volume sales of home audio and cinema products in Denmark continue to decline, reflecting the downtrend established during the review period. This decline is driven by shifting household preferences towards more compact and mobile…

In the first half of 2024, volume sales of headphones in Denmark experienced a decline but remained relatively comparable to 2023 levels. The product area faced significant challenges due to cost-of-living pressures, a sluggish economic climate, and…

Consumer electronics in 2024 continues to exhibit softness, with volume sales recording a slight decline following a sharp decrease in 2023. Several factors contribute to this ongoing weakness. Consumer demand for electronics is intricately linked to…

Volume growth in computers and peripherals in Denmark in 2024 reflects a stabilisation following a sharp decline in 2023, where absolute volume levels were significantly below historic year-on-year levels. The 2024 results represent a modest recovery…

Demand for wearable electronics in the UK continues to grow, with the first half of 2024 delivering a stronger performance in both volume and value growth terms compared to the previous year. However, volume sales of activity bands continue on their…

Demand for overall portable players in the UK remains positive, driven by the dominant category of wireless speakers. Local consumers are increasingly interested in and attracted to different portable audio solutions such as wireless speakers, while…

After several years of volume declines, demand for mobile phones in the UK is marginally improving in 2024. The category has faced challenges such as market saturation and economic uncertainty, where consumers have hesitated in making discretionary…

In-car entertainment in the UK continues on its declining trajectory across the category – in-car navigation, in-car speakers and in-dash media players. Both volume and value sales recorded double-digit declines in the first half of 2024, reflecting…

Demand for imaging devices in the UK continues to decline as part of an established trend for this category that was already emerging prior to the review period. Both digital cameras and digital camcorders continue to experience loss of volume sales,…

After three challenging years for televisions in the UK, with sales normalising after the strong uptake during the pandemic in 2020, demand is starting to improve in 2024. While it is unlikely that volume sales are likely to return to 2020’s levels,…

Home audio and cinema in the UK continues to face challenges in 2024, especially in terms of volume declines. This is a fairly saturated category in the UK with long replacement cycles, as many consumers do not see the need to regularly replace their…

Demand for headphones in the UK continues to grow, with the category recording 10% retail volume growth in the first half of 2024. TWS earbuds remains the standout performer, with both the mass and premium segments recording dynamic growth in a…

Demand for consumer electronics in the UK continues to grow, reversing a negative volume trend witnessed over the previous three years. Higher value growth is being driven by further unit price rises, as inflation and production costs remain…

Overall demand for computers and peripherals in the UK continues to decline in 2024. This continues a historic trend for this category, which has experienced volume declines over the past few years following the large volume spike when the pandemic…

Wearable electronics have proven to be versatile in their various functions in the daily lives of many consumers, providing a configurable, simple, and affordable tracker for basic physical conditions through their easy connection to smartphones.…

Despite a crisis-driven year, portable players is expected to manage to achieve slightly positive growth in both volume and current value sales in 2023; this makes it one of the few product categories within consumer electronics to do so. An…

In 2023, various macroeconomic conditions have been affecting mobile phones, particularly rising prices. Persistent high inflation, as well as a scarcity of resources for manufacturing smartphones, and distribution difficulties, are expected to…

In-car entertainment in Germany is set to witness decline in 2023, with a notable decrease expected in current value terms, along with a nearly a double-digit decrease in retail volume sales. This was a continuation of the trend from previous years,…

In 2023, imaging devices is set to show a continuation of the previous pattern of declining volume sales. Within digital cameras, both compact cameras and DSLRs are expected to continue to decline, while mirrorless system cameras are projected to…

Home video is set to show negative developments in both volume and current value terms across almost all product categories in 2023. Sales of LCD TVs, which includes LED and QLED devices, are expected to experience volume and value declines in this…

Home audio and cinema had already experienced negative growth in recent years, especially due to constant improvements in televisions in terms of size, and quality of sound and picture. In 2023, decline is set to continue in retail volume terms, also…

In a year marked by economic uncertainties, consumer electronics has been negatively affected, especially in terms of volume sales. Consequently, only a few categories are expected to show positive development in both volume and value sales in 2023 –…

In 2023, mixed performances are expected in consumer electronics in terms of volume and value development. Despite the fact that volumes are expected to see a notable decline in 2023, current value sales are set to increase overall. This is primarily…

In 2023, declining retail volume sales are expected across every product category in computers and peripherals. An important factor in this is that due to the increase in demand during the pandemic, demand has now dropped. In addition, the high…

Wearable electronics is seeing a small overall volume decline in 2023, although smart wearables is enjoying small positive growth. This dynamic is created by the shift away from activity wearables, towards smart wearable electronics. This is being…

Portable players is another category suffering from cannibalisation from smartphones, along with seeing competition from tablets and laptops (to a lesser extent). The main reason here is the fact that smartphones, tablets, and the like, offer…

Due to the ubiquitous nature of smartphones, one might expect that sales would be more robust, however, volume is in a marginal decline in 2023. This is attributed to the elongated product lifecycles, both due to models being of better quality, and…

In-car navigation is struggling to find sales, due to the rise of in-built systems and competition from smartphones. Indeed, there is a strong substitution trend with smartphone navigation apps, which reduce or even remove the need to purchase an…

Imaging devices is suffering from high prices in the face of ongoing cannibalisation from smartphones. Indeed, the substitution with smartphones means that many Norwegian consumers see the purchase of a separate camera as superfluous. Therefore,…

Home video is experiencing a more positive performance than many of its consumer electronics counterparts in 2023, with small volume sales. This growth, however, represents a stabilisation in volume levels following the sales spike during the height…

Home audio and cinema remains in a slump in 2023, following the pandemic era when consumers invested in their home entertainment setups during the times of lockdown. As such, following the reopening of society and a return to out-of-home lifestyles,…

Headphones is one of the few categories enjoying positive volume success in consumer electronics in 2023, thanks to the popularity of TWS earbuds. In line with the trend for wireless speakers, wireless variants of headphones (aka TWS earbuds) are…

Overall retail volumes remain in a decline in consumer electronics in Norway in 2023, with home video and headphones being the only categories seeing small volume growth overall, attributed directly to individual, well-performing subcategories (e.g.,…

In an over-arching trend, computers are peripherals is seeing overall negative volume growth in 2023. This suppressed performance is attributed to ongoing normalisation of consumer spending patterns following the atypical period of the COVID-19 era,…

There has been an increased focus on healthy tech that supports physical and mental health since the pandemic with many consumers keen to keep track of their fitness and health vitals. This continues to support demand for wearable electronics while…

Sales of portable players is recording growth in retail volume terms in 2023, but this being fuelled entirely by the growing demand for wireless speakers. E-readers continue to lose appeal while portable multimedia players have now largely…

Sales of smartphones continue to decline in retail volume terms in 2023 with several factors weighing on demand. Firstly, this stagnation reflects the increasing maturity of the category with very few consumers still without a mobile phone, unless by…

Sales of in-car entertainment continue to record a steep decline in 2023 with these products increasingly losing relevance in Sweden. New vehicles are introducing ever more advanced built-in entertainment, while for many consumers their smartphones…

Sales of imaging devices are seeing a sharp decline in retail volume terms in 2023 as the category continues to lose its appeal. Consumers are increasingly satisfied with the growing sophistication of the imaging capabilities of smartphones and thus…

It has been a mixed few years for sales of televisions in Sweden. There was a huge spike in sales of LCD and OLED TVs in 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19 as consumers went into self-enforced isolation. This home seclusion encouraged many…

Sales of home audio and cinema are in long-term decline and they continue to fall in 2023, with further declines expected over the forecast period. Most home audio and cinema products have long been considered redundant by most consumers and are…

When it comes to headphones there continues to be a growing shift to wireless headbands and TWS earbuds with both categories continuing to enjoy healthy growth in retail volume terms in 2023. TWS earbuds remains the largest category with consumers…

Sales of consumer electronics continue to decline in retail volume terms in 2023 with high inflation and economic uncertainty continuing to negatively impact sales. With many households facing a drop in disposable income and with interest rate rises…

Sales of computers and peripherals saw a brief return to growth in 2020 as the pandemic forced a shift to homeworking; however, this positivity was short lived with sales declining in retail volume terms in 2021 and 2022 and continuing to decline in…