Ireland

In 2023, premium beauty and personal care ranges recorded a stronger performance than mass goods despite the challenging economic environment and ongoing high inflation. This was mainly due to the very strong performance of premium ranges within…

Retail volume sales of concentrates were under pressure in Ireland in 2023. Strong growth in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumers shifting to retail in line with the heavy restrictions on foodservice, fostered stabilisation towards the…

The Irish population’s experience of the significant trend towards health and wellness has increased health consciousness and had a profound impact on consumer preferences within edible oils. Consumers have displayed a growing understanding of and…

2023 saw demand for fromage frais and quark begin to decline for the first time in four years, which can be seen as a balancing of demand after several years of robust performances in the category. Fromage frais and quark consistently outperformed…

Russia’s war in Ukraine coupled with the EU’s ambitious Zero Carbon policy continues to put pressure on fuel prices and this has led to a significant increase in the average ticket price for the end consumer. European regulators have introduced new…

The growing interest in coffee has hampered retail tea demand in Ireland 2023. Slowdowns in 2021 and 2022 followed a small spike in retail volume growth, due to the restrictions on on-trade sales in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, in…

Soft drinks is projected to see a flat off-trade volume growth performance over 2023. While more established categories like carbonates, concentrates and juice are set to see decreases, perceived healthier bottled water and RTD tea (especially…

RTD tea is projected to continue to post off- and on-trade volume growth over 2023, albeit at much slower rates than in 2022. Both still and carbonated RTD tea continued to see volume growth at the end of the review period. Still RTD tea has enjoyed…

Carbonates’ overall off-trade (and total) volume sales are projected to decrease over 2023. Irish consumers decreased their intake of carbonates in favour of perceived healthier or more functional soft drinks like bottled water or energy drinks.…

Chocolate spreads is expected to see stagnant retail volume growth, and the slowest retail current value sales growth in sweet spreads over 2023. Retail current value growth is set to be in high single-digits mainly due to higher prices. This…