Tea remains the most traditional and popular hot drink in Uzbekistan. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uzbekistanis have stocked up on the beverage, fearing product stock-outs and in preparation for long periods spent at home. Additionally, the government has encouraged people to work fr...
Other hot drinks, represented by chocolate-based flavoured powder drinks, is a very small category in Uzbekistan, with no on-trade presence. Therefore, in absolute terms, other hot drinks was the hot drinks category least affected by the impact of COVID-19. Though volume sales declined strongly in 2...
As in other countries, retail sales of hot drinks in Uzbekistan to some extent benefited from the closure of horeca outlets due to lockdown, as some consumers switched to the off-trade, especially for tea. Stockpiling occurred for tea as the nation's favourite drink, with consumers being encouraged ...
While in 2019 retail and foodservice volume sales of coffee posted strong growth rates, the arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 dealt a big blow to the on-trade in particular due to the mandatory closure of non-essential businesses from the middle of March. Even when government restrictions were eased from ...
As soft drinks recorded a strong performance and growth over the course of the review period, the poor performance registered across many categories in 2020 is strongly tied to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic had a particularly severe negative effect on the performance of on-trade...
RTD tea was among the hardest hit categories in soft drinks, recording a heavy decline in off-trade volume sales and off-trade value sales in 2020. This is due to its less established presence and popularity in Uzbekistan, which makes it less resilient to the disruption of COVID-19 and the long peri...
Despite the widespread disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to consumer lifestyles, off-trade sale of energy drinks remained resilient to the effects of the global health and economic crisis in 2020. This is due to the common trend amongst local consumers of purchasing products in this category when ...
2020 recorded a decline in off-trade current value and volume sales in bottled water following the implementation of national lockdown measures in Uzbekistan in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The decline in sales was most acutely felt during the national lockdown period when co...
In 2020, the COVID-19 national lockdown in Uzbekistan resulted in the widespread and prolonged closure of horeca outlets across the country. This led to a sharp decrease in on-trade sales in 2020, as outlets were unable to reach their usual customers from March 2020 when the Uzbekistani government f...
Despite demonstrating strong growth over the course of the review period, juice suffered the effects of the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, recording a significant decline in on-trade and off-trade volume sales. The losses experienced in this category are due to the disruption of the COVI...