Unusual times were seen for retail in Finland starting from the beginning of COVID-19 in 2020. As people stayed at home more, travelled less, went out to eat less, and worked fewer hours in the office…
Finland Retail Market Size by Sector and Channel including Online Retail, Key Players and Forecast, 2022-2026 Summary This databook uses data from Retail database showing the trends in the market and…
Finland Forecourt Market Size and Forecast by Segment (Service Station, Car Wash, and Convenience and Foodservice) and Fuel Retailer Profiles, 2021-2026 Summary Finland Forecourt Market Size and Fore…
The dynamics in retailing in 2021 were still much shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. 2020 was an exceptional year due to the surge in spending on groceries as consumers spent more time at home a…
Finland Fuel Cards Market Size and Forecast to 2024 - Analysing Markets, Channels, and Key Players Summary Finland Fuel Cards Market Size and Forecast to 2024 is invaluable for issuers of fleet cards…
Report Description Loyalty Programs market in Finland has recorded strong growth over the last four quarters, supported by brands and retailers focusing on the customer retention. According to Q1 20…
At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, vending was amongst the biggest losers in retailing in Finland. Already marginal in size (vending is the smallest retail channel in the country) vending heavi…
Direct selling has always been a marginal retail channel in Finland, and has in recent years seen a clear decrease – sales fell in 2022 for the sixth year in a row in current value terms. Even more wo…
Although there are variety stores which carry a limited assortment of groceries at discount prices, and in the review period S Group also focused on prices, in 2022 Lidl remained the only discounter i…
Hypermarkets has traditionally been the leading retail (not only grocery retail) channel in Finland, with around a third of overall sales of grocery retailers accounted for by hypermarkets in 2022. Hy…
Generally speaking, COVID-19 created a boom for grocery retailers in Finland, as a lot of consumption moved from foodservice and travel to grocery retailers. People ate at home instead of going out to…
In 2022, convenience retailers saw a current value decline. Over the last few years, the channel followed the general trend in overall grocery retailers, which saw growth during the pandemic, but in 2…
Small local grocers remained the smallest grocery retail channel in Finland in 2022. Its significance within grocery retailers has been on a slow decline for a long time, with no signs that this trend…
Non-grocery retailing in Finland in general saw rocky years after the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. Appliances and Electronics Specialists in Finland report offers insight into key trends and developmen…
Health and beauty specialists is the second biggest non-grocery channel in Finland. It has seen a long-term increase in its relative importance – from less than a fifth of all non-grocery retail sales…
Home products specialists was the leading non-grocery channel in Finland traditionally – before COVID-19, around a quarter of all non-grocery retail value sales came from these retailers. However, dur…
Variety stores was one of the winning channels in non-grocery retailers in the last decade. In addition, while many non-grocery channels saw lower sales in constant terms in 2022 compared with 2012, t…
Unsurprisingly, e-commerce already performed better than overall retail in Finland even before COVID-19. The move from offline to online impacted the sales of offline channels and changed offline outl…
Sanitary protection in Finland is a mature category and continuing to grow retail volume sales is hard. This situation was not alleviated by the stagnant 12-54-year-old female population at the end of…
Overall off-trade volume growth in coffee in Finland is positive but very modest in 2022, with coffee prices rising rapidly and leading to high value growth. At the same time, average unit prices are …
Scheduled airlines has traditionally been the leading category of airlines in Finland, with low cost carriers never having really taken off in the Nordic countries as in other regions of Europe. The F…
COVID-19 caused a clear uptick in demand for products from home and garden specialist retailers as consumers spent more time at home and had more time to dedicate to projects. This surge in demand was…
There were no warehouse clubs operating in Finland at the end of the review period, and there are currently no expectations of any entering the channel over the forecast period. Warehouse Clubs in …
Electronics and appliance specialist retailers recorded a noticeable increase in demand in 2020, especially in the first half of the year, when consumers began to spend more time at home to prevent th…
In Finland, the health and beauty specialist retailers channel is dominated by chemists/pharmacists. The development of health and beauty specialist retailers depends therefore heavily on the performa…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Finnish authorities recommended that elderly citizens avoid contact with others as much as possible to prevent the transmission of the virus which is more dangerous f…
Convenience stores has been the worst performing grocery retailing channel in the review period but saw its retail current value sales increase in 2021 due to the general increase in grocery shopping …
Almost three-quarters of the category’s value sales are accounted for by Alko. As a result, factors that affect the company have a crucial impact on the overall channel. With a few exceptions, Alko, t…
Variety stores was one of the big success stories of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the health crisis and in the face of economic uncertainty, consumers in Finland appreciated the low-price positioning…
Department stores continued to suffer from an identity crisis in Finland in 2021 having lost their place in the world slightly in the face of growing cross-category competition. In addition to the ban…
