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Increasing product costs, rising energy prices, and inflation led to price rises across all dairy products in Greece. This has impacted consumer behaviour, hindered volume demand and limited purchases in line with reduced disposable incomes. There…
Retail sales of dairy products and alternatives in Portugal saw modest growth in volume terms in 2023, a slight improvement over the previous year. While inflationary pressures, driven by surging energy and food prices, receded slightly, demand was…
The performance of dairy products and alternatives continues to be shaped by the elevated inflation being seen in 2023, which has led to strong growth in current value terms, albeit at a slightly more modest rate compared to 2022. However, sales…
The dairy industry in the UK is being severely impacted by the lingering effects of the pandemic, and political, social and economic challenges. Firstly, Brexit continues to hamper import and export operations between the UK and European markets,…
Drinking milk products in Finland continued to see normalising sales after the heightened demand that was the COVID-19 pandemic, when consumers stockpiled goods. Inflation and increasing production costs drove up the milk prices in 2022 and continued…
Having experienced a marginal boost during the pandemic due to prolonged home seclusion in 2020, retail volume sales of drinking milk products in France continue on their declining trajectory in 2023, a trend already emerging prior to COVID-19. This…
The demand for drinking milk products in Germany is declining following certain shifts in consumer patterns. With an increasing number of local consumers adopting alternative diets, such as veganism or flexitarianism, the evolution of dietary…
2022 was a challenging year for milk production due to high price points. In particular, fodder got much more expensive, and livestock farmers could not feed their animals, leading to a higher proportion of being slaughtered. As a result, the number…
Milk producers continued to struggle with high production costs in 2023. The main factors contributing to this trend were rising energy and transport prices and adverse weather conditions, with the country having suffered a severe drought during the…
In 2022 inflation, which was exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and a national transportation strike, negatively affected per capita milk consumption in Spain. As such, sales of milk saw a decline in retail volume terms in 2022. Moreover, a…