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Vision disorders continue to increase in France, stemming from greater exposure to digital screens and a decrease in the time spent outdoors. Post-pandemic, working from home has become a permanent measure for many former office-based employees, at…
Eye care sales are set to rise in 2023. The increasing use of digital screens for both work and leisure, with smartphones becoming ever more central to virtually every area of consumers’ lifestyles, is driving up the prevalence of a variety of eye…
Eye care is expected to register an increase in both current value and volume sales in 2023, partly as a result of rising inflation due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, which is driving up retail prices. In addition, local consumers spend more time…
Longer and stronger periods of pollen and increasing cases of allergies is boosting sales of eye care, primarily allergy eye care. Sales of these products have benefited from high pollen levels in Belgium in the early months of 2023 due to the…
Elevated inflation and spiralling manufacturing costs has led to further price increases within eye care in Austria which has helped to support current value growth in 2023 but has led to a significant decline in retail volume terms. Despite seeing…
Following on from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and rising cost of living amid high inflation, the economic and social damage caused by earthquakes and the upheaval of political elections have played their parts in increasing stress levels in…
Value sales of digestive remedies are recording another year of strong growth in 2023 as the category continues to benefit from consumers returning to post-pandemic life. For example, antacids is profiting from consumers socialising and drinking more…
In terms of retail current value sales, digestive remedies is projected to record healthy growth in 2023. This is mainly driven by average retail current unit price growth. In 2022, the growth in average unit prices was still relatively low, although…
Digestive remedies reported much stronger value growth in 2023 as consumers started eating outside the home once more, with greater exposure to bacterial infections. Sales of diarrhoeal remedies have increased as a greater number of consumers deal…
Retail sales of digestive remedies suffered a decline in constant value terms in 2023, albeit at a slower rate than the previous year. Growth continued to be impacted by inflationary pressures, exacerbated by the ongoing war in Ukraine, which…