Portugal

Chocolate confectionery is managing to achieve positive volume growth in 2024, despite unit price hikes suppressing stronger sales. Indeed, chocolate confectionery has been strongly affected by considerable increases in the costs of raw ingredients,…

After the decline registered in 2020 due to COVID-19 and successive lockdowns, childrenswear registered noticeable growth in 2021. Nevertheless, in 2022 and 2023, retail volume slowed down, lower than levels seen in men and womenswear, as parents…

Cheese saw modest growth in retail volume terms in 2023, in contrast to the flat performance of the previous year. While inflationary pressures, driven by surging energy and food prices, receded slightly, demand was constrained by a loss of…

With low levels of penetration in the country, charge cards continues to grow in 2023 as it recovers from its sharp drop in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, boosted by inflation and by the recovery of business, transaction value is…

Cat food maintained retail volume and current value growth in Portugal in 2023, and this trend is expected to continue in 2024, with growth across both wet and dry cat food, and across all price segments. The cat population rose throughout the review…