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Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, specialist knowledge and a comprehensive breakdown of key market data. Our research identifies key strategic themes relevant across the region, while also providing a more granular unders...
Other hot drinks posted a steep retail volume decline in 2023, aligned to the cost of living crisis and lower disposable incomes. As such, consumer purchasing changed, and many focused on essentials, with other hot drinks lacking commodity status. In…
Other hot drinks witnessed divergent trends in Ireland. On the one hand, the biggest category, chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks, suffered from the health and wellness trend. On the other hand, malt-based hot drinks and “other” plant-based hot…
Other hot drinks consists of flavoured powder drinks, chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks, and malt-based hot drinks in Italy, all of which are seeing negative volume growth in 2023. On the other hand, sales of non-chocolate-based flavoured…
Sales of other hot drinks rocketed following the outbreak of COVID-19 as consumers were forced into home seclusion and people stocked up on supplies. Since then retail volume sales of other hot drinks have been on a downward trajectory as consumers…
Other hot drinks is a mature product category in Portugal, which saw increased sales during COVID-19 due to home seclusion. Throughout this period, players focused on marketing products to be enjoyed during breakfast, with many of the leading brands…
It has been another difficult year for other hot drinks in Spain in 2023. In the retail channel volume sales are set to decline (continuing a long-term trend, apart from the first pandemic year), and whilst volume sales in the foodservice channel are…
Other hot drinks is considered an unexciting category, largely due to its unhealthy image. Chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks remained the only significant category in 2023. In contrast to tea and coffee, retail volume sales of other hot drinks…
The most popular other hot drinks in Switzerland remained chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks and malt-based hot drinks. Chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks continued to account for the majority of retail value and volume sales in 2023,…
In keeping with its performance over most of the review period, other hot drinks is set to contract in retail volume terms in 2023. As a mature category with a much narrower appeal than coffee and tea in the Netherlands, it continues to suffer from a…
Chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks is set to see declining sales in both retail volume and current value terms in 2023, owing to an increasing number of consumers favouring products which are healthy. There is an overall sense that shoppers have…