Consumer Electronics

There is expected to be a further strong decline in retail volume sales across computers and peripherals in Austria over 2023. There was a shift in demand towards specialised products in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as consumers…

Computers and peripherals remain in a negative volume decline in 2023, following the spike in sales seen during the era of the pandemic, when consumers invested in their at-home office set-ups. Ultimately, this means replacement cycles have not yet…

Volume declines continue in computers and peripherals in 2023, after the boost seen during the pandemic era due to home lockdowns and working-from-home trends. Indeed, there was a dramatic rise in the number of people working from home and using…

In 2023, declining retail volume sales are expected across every product category in computers and peripherals. An important factor in this is that due to the increase in demand during the pandemic, demand has now dropped. In addition, the high…

Computers and peripherals are expected to be the worst performing consumer electronic in 2023, with double-digit volume decline. Part of the decline is related to surge in spending on computers and peripherals during the early days of the pandemic,…

With the COVID-19 crisis, many consumers purchased new computers and peripherals to set up home office spaces or for distance learning, which led to unprecedented peaks in demand. This has been reducing demand for new products over time, given that…

In an over-arching trend, computers are peripherals is seeing overall negative volume growth in 2023. This suppressed performance is attributed to ongoing normalisation of consumer spending patterns following the atypical period of the COVID-19 era,…

Retail volume sales of computers and peripherals registered a further decline in 2023, continuing the trend of the previous year. Such products registered a robust demand in 2020 and 2021, when the COVID-19 crisis forced consumers to spend more time…

Computers and peripherals saw extraordinary growth in 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19 as consumers rushed to prepare themselves for the switch to home working and virtual classrooms. This growth continued into 2021 as many people continued to…

Sales of computers and peripherals saw a brief return to growth in 2020 as the pandemic forced a shift to homeworking; however, this positivity was short lived with sales declining in retail volume terms in 2021 and 2022 and continuing to decline in…

Computers and peripherals are set to register a steep decline in volume sales in 2023 as consumers are proving reluctant to spend on big items due to the high rate of inflation. Apart from that, the uncertainty caused by the war following the Russian…

Following the trend of 2022, when the category experienced a steep decline, particularly for laptops, total volume sales of computers and peripherals continue to decline in 2023. The primary cause of this can be traced back to the pandemic period…

Computers and peripherals will register stagnant volume sales in 2023, partly due to saturation, but also due to weaker demand following the dynamic growth in 2020. There was a surge in computer and peripheral volume sales at the height of the…

Price increases remained noticeably high in many categories towards the end of the review period. This is the main reason consumer electronics is projected to see only a slight drop in retail value sales, at least in current terms, over 2023, with…

Overall volume sales continue to decrease in consumer electronics in Denmark in 2023, as purchases normalise after the positive sales seen during the COVID-19 pandemic era when consumers were spending more time at home and thus investing in their…

Consumer electronics in France continues to face challenges in 2023. Firstly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw sales spikes during the lockdown period as consumers invested in in-home entertainment. As a result, the penetration rate for most…

In 2023, mixed performances are expected in consumer electronics in terms of volume and value development. Despite the fact that volumes are expected to see a notable decline in 2023, current value sales are set to increase overall. This is primarily…

The picture is expected to be bleak for consumer electronics in 2023, with overall volume sales expected to fall. Continuing economic uncertainty as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the significant rise in inflation and tightening monetary…

Consumer electronics is trending downwards in Italy for several reasons. The high rate of inflation prevailing towards the end of the review period and the marked rise in the prices of food and energy have forced consumers to rethink their spending,…

Overall retail volumes remain in a decline in consumer electronics in Norway in 2023, with home video and headphones being the only categories seeing small volume growth overall, attributed directly to individual, well-performing subcategories (e.g.,…