Finland

NRT smoking cessation aids is set to see sales fall in 2023. The category has been adversely affected by new regulations relating to other NRT introduced in May 2023. Nicotine pouches, which were previously only sold as OTC medicine, were announced…

The sale of yoghurt and sour milk continued to normalise following the outbreak of COVID-19, when consumers stayed at home, leading to increased snacking. In 2023, yoghurt and sour milk is also facing the increasing challenge of being a mature…

Like all other categories of staple foods in Finland, rice, pasta and noodles saw a normalising trajectory in terms of the retail-foodservice volume sales split towards the end of the review period. As the threat of and restrictions related to…

The high rate of inflation and increasing production and transportation costs drove up the unit prices of cooking ingredients and meals significantly in 2022 and 2023. What is more, edible oils saw even sharper movements in price due to the deficit…

The unit prices of sauces, dips and condiments soared as production costs went up in the context of a generally very high rate of inflation. Otherwise, the consumption of sauces, dips and condiments still saw normalisation following the shift from…