Finland

Eye care sales are set to rise in 2023. The increasing use of digital screens for both work and leisure, with smartphones becoming ever more central to virtually every area of consumers’ lifestyles, is driving up the prevalence of a variety of eye…

Airlines suffered heavily due to COVID-19, with passenger numbers at Finnish airports in 2020 dropping to less than one quarter of the level of the previous year. The number of people decreased further in 2021, and, despite triple-digit growth in…

Inflation, together with increased production costs, continued to add pressure to the landscape in 2023, further increasing price points. The shortage of sunflower oil was also felt within savoury snacks; for example, in 2022, Taffel savoury snack…

Inflation and increasing production costs are lifting unit prices in 2023, resulting in healthy retail value growth.

Baked goods saw increasing unit prices driven by inflation and growing production costs in 2023. The category also continued to see a normalising of demand, as volume sales moved back to foodservice and away from retail as the Coronavirus (COVID-19)…