Understand the cultural and socioeconomic influences that shape i...
Understand the cultural and socioeconomic influences that shape industry demand throughout Asia-Pacific, with local insight, market statistics and analysis ranging from strategic regional overview to in-depth coverage by country or city.
Home insecticides performed badly in 2023, with both value and volume sales falling. Home insecticides are very dependent on the weather conditions in the country, and is, therefore, very seasonal. With the summer of 2023 not being as hot as the…
In 2023, total value sales of home insecticides continued to decline in current terms. This was a result of various factors, including weather, government policies and changing lifestyles. Hot weather prevailed in many parts of China from early June…
Home insecticides registered slight positive retail volume growth in Hong Kong in 2023, along with stronger current value growth. The use of stronger disinfectant products and increased general cleanliness since the pandemic diminished the survival…
In 2023, sales of home insecticides continued to rise in retail current value terms, due to factors such as changing consumer preferences and weather conditions. Consumers have increasingly been trading up from cheaper variants, such as insecticide…
Situated in the tropics, Indonesia perpetually contends with the demand for home insecticides. This product category saw another upswing in 2023, and the positive trajectory is likely to continue. The surging cases of dengue fever in the country have…
In 2023, current value sales of home insecticides in Japan registered positive growth from the previous year; however, volume sales declined. The decline in volume sales can be attributed to the fading of COVID-19. The pandemic had much less of an…
Home insecticides in Kazakhstan benefitted from 2023’s hot summer, posting continued volume sales growth throughout the year, and this is expected to also continue over the forecast period at a stable rate, along with robust value growth which was…
As of August 2023, dengue cases were up 117% year-on-year, bringing the total cases to 73,680 from January to August 2023, compared with 39,769 cases in the same period in 2022. By September 2023, cases had risen to 88,672, with a massive surge in…
All categories of home insecticides continued to see strong increases in retail volume sales in 2023, although insecticide baits remained negligible. This supported retail current value growth, which was made dynamic by high inflationary pressure on…
The surge in dengue cases, attributed to the increase in construction activities in Singapore, is likely to have been one factor supporting demand for home insecticides in 2023, and possibly future sales. As construction projects create conducive…