Despite navigating through the post-pandemic landscape and grappling with persistent high inflation and economic challenges, the Australian beauty and personal care market remains resilient and vibrant. Key factors such as affordability, efficacy, holistic health and wellness, and purposeful purchasing continue to drive market development. This article examines how brands and retailers are responding to these trends.
This article spotlights top femtech trends to inform innovation, investment and synergy opportunities in women’s health, with fresh insights from the Femtech and Consumer Innovation Summit in New Jersey in June, a high profile gathering of stakeholders in women’s health – pharma companies, startups, investors and consumer goods businesses across sectors.
As new trends across health and nutrition emerge, it is important for companies and brands to understand consumer health perceptions and concerns, as well as related consumption and exercising habits. Our Voice of the Consumer: Health and Nutrition Survey can help.
The pandemic brought a timely reminder of the importance of investing in skin care and health. As a result, today’s beauty consumer is smarter than ever, with a growing belief that skin care routines are just as much about health as about beauty.
In the face of ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, the latest eyewear data published by Euromonitor International confirms a mixed outlook for the global eyewear market. In the near-term signs of progress are evident. In this article, we have identified five key opportunities as companies rise to the challenge of bouncing back stronger in 2025 and beyond.
Self-care narratives driven by a digital pulse in social media education encourage more men to invest in and expand their skin care routines. As younger generations lead the push to normalise advanced skin care practices for men, companies will need to continue brand building online to reach an increasingly digital male consumer.
Consumers’ increasing focus on health, performance, and transparency is driving businesses to rethink their product formulations, expanding sustainability communication beyond just vitamins and sports nutrition. In fact, sustainable products within the consumer health industry recorded an 8% value sales CAGR from 2020 to 2023, outperforming their non-sustainable counterparts.
As scrutiny intensifies on corporate sustainability communication, this is the first of a new series of articles highlighting key insights from Euromonitor’s Sustainability platform. The Beauty and Personal Care industry is experiencing a sustainability-led growth, with sustainable products seeing a 10% CAGR from 2020 to 2023. Utilising data from the AI-based Passport Sustainability platform, Euromonitor underscores the need for companies to adopt transparent sustainability practices. This key move not only helps manage risks and comply with regulation, but also harnesses the increasing consumer preference for sustainable products.
Buoyed by rising disposable incomes and discretionary spending approaching the levels similar to those enjoyed by their Western counterparts, Eastern European consumers drove steady growth in the beauty and personal care industry over the last few years. The pandemic, geopolitical shocks such as the war in Ukraine and the consequent inflation surge – none of them managed to derail continuous expansion of sales. Even the exorbitant price increases did not stop consumers moving towards more sophisticated products rather than trading down or reducing usage occasions.