Supermarkets: Low expectations for 2025

Supermarket executives spot a slowdown successful the sector’s maturation successful the archetypal fractional of the caller year, according to a survey of retail and FMCG (fast-moving user goods) manufacture trends by IELKA.

The results of the executives’ opinions picture a hard and peculiarly demanding concern situation for businesses successful the nutrient assemblage (industry and retail) with low, astir marginal maturation rates expected successful the adjacent future, astatine slightest for the archetypal months of 2025, the study stated.

In summary, the results of the survey that grounds the expectations of manufacture executives successful the archetypal fractional of 2025:

• Increase successful income value successful the archetypal fractional of 2025 (+0.8%) compared to the corresponding play of 2024.
• Stabilization of income volume successful the archetypal fractional of 2025 (+0.1%) compared to the corresponding play of 2024.
• Maintenance of the economical clime astatine affirmative levels, but cautiously.

Stabilizing trends for prices

In narration to expectations for income successful the sector, a bulk of respondents, 48%, judge that the value of income successful the assemblage will summation successful the adjacent six months, while a small percent of 23% believes that it will decrease.

Assessment of the country’s economical situation

The antagonistic trend recorded successful 2022-23 is maintained.

At the extremity of 2024, lone 23% believed that the economical situation had improved and the majority, 41%, that it had worsened.