Consumer Electronics

Retail sales of consumer electronics in Portugal declined in volume terms in 2023, albeit at a slower rate than the previous year. While inflationary pressures, driven by surging energy and food prices, receded slightly, demand was constrained by a…

Following marginal declines the previous year, sales of consumer electronics, in both retail volume and current value terms, are growing in 2023. Despite the post-pandemic aftermath, including reduced demand for computers and peripherals for home…

Consumer electronics in France continues to face challenges in 2023. Firstly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw sales spikes during the lockdown period as consumers invested in in-home entertainment. As a result, the penetration rate for most…

Consumer electronics is under pressure in 2023 as the Egyptian economy is confronted by exceptional economic challenges. In the face of rising prices, current value sales recorded double-digit growth in 2023. However, demand has waned for consumer…

Overall sales of consumer electronics in Australia are stagnating in retail volume terms in 2023, albeit with mixed performances across the different categories. Consumer demand in many categories continued to soften after seeing strong growth during…

Multiple factors have been putting downward pressure on consumer electronics sales in Morocco, of which high taxes and consumer price sensitivity are just a few. Moreover, recent crises related to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have exacerbated…

In 2023 Indonesia’s economic landscape is showing an enduring resilience coupled with promising prospects, standing strong amid global economic shifts. The Minister of Finance stated in the year that macroeconomic variables, fiscal and monetary…

The picture is expected to be bleak for consumer electronics in 2023, with overall volume sales expected to fall. Continuing economic uncertainty as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the significant rise in inflation and tightening monetary…

The picture is expected to be bleak for consumer electronics in 2023, with overall volume sales expected to fall. A new government inherited a sluggish economy, record debt and shrinking oil output, due to creaking infrastructure. On foot of this,…

In 2022, most pandemic restrictions were lifted, and a strong negative impact was seen on volume sales of consumer electronics in Chile, with decline set to continue in 2023, although at a slower rate. These declines have been caused by a fall in…

Consumer electronics is trending downwards in Italy for several reasons. The high rate of inflation prevailing towards the end of the review period and the marked rise in the prices of food and energy have forced consumers to rethink their spending,…

High inflation affected volume sales of consumer electronics in Hungary in 2023. While strong value growth was recorded, overall volume sales were flat, with a weaker performance in the first half of the year. Strong demand for consumer electronics…

Retail volume sales of consumer electronics experienced an overall slight decrease in Brazil in 2022, primarily due to the global economic crisis, worsened by the war in Ukraine, and the zero-COVID policy in China. High inflation within Brazil also…

Retail volume sales of consumer electronics continued to fall in 2023, with the rate of decline accelerating compared to the previous year. This was mainly the result of a slump in demand for computer and peripherals, although almost all other…

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.,…

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…

The negative volume growth that was registered across consumer electronics in the US in 2023 can be seen largely as a continuation of the suppressed demand that has emerged during the post-pandemic era. Now that the positive impact of stay-at-home…

With the full lifting of COVID-19-related social distancing measures through 2022 and 2023, and consumers therefore drastically reducing the amount of time spent at home, the retail volume growth rate of overall consumer electronics in South Korea…

2023 marks a year of recovery for consumer electronics in the Philippines after spending two years in the red due to economic uncertainties created by the pandemic and elevated inflation. While sales have not seen a full recovery in retail volume…

Consumer electronics is set to see a significant decline in volume sales in the Dutch market in 2023 driven by challenges brought about by the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the energy crisis. Consumers’ expectations are low and as a result, they…