IKEA wants all products sold there to come from renewable or recycled materials by 2030, stressed Magdalena Betin, IKEA sustainability leader, during PMR Webinar Home & Garden Retail on 5 November. Social engagement in the COVID-19 era In 2018, IKEA published a new “People and planet positive” strategy, with which it has been working since…
From now on, students from grades 4 to 8 of elementary school return to remote learning, this is the result of the restrictions introduced on Saturday. What’s more, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., children up to 16 years old can only move outside the house under adult supervision. This restriction does not apply on…
Discount stores, food and non-food alike, are very popular among Poles. A survey carried out by PMR in the second quarter of 2020 found that two in three consumers visit a Biedronka store at least once a week, 43% visit a Lidl store, and 10% a Pepco store. All discounters offer home furnishings Virtually all…
The market for children’s products in Poland grew in value by 4.4% in 2019 to reach PLN 15.08bn, according to PMR estimates. But it is on track for a contraction of more than 3% in 2020, as negative demographic trends are compounded by the shock of Covid-19. A major barrier impeding the growth of the…
Of the Poles who purchased garden products in the 12 months to January 2020, 63% bought decorations, such as flower pots, fences, ponds, or sculpted ornaments. An identical percentage bought garden tools, according to a survey by PMR. Decorations, tools top list of most-purchased garden items More than 50% of Poles surveyed by PMR…
Closed shops, fear of contagion, rising unemployment, and no clear prospect of a return to normal – the coronavirus epidemic is changing consumer patterns in Poland in important ways, according to a new report from PMR, “The impact of coronavirus on consumer behaviour in Poland 2020”. The lockdown imposed in Poland in the second week…
Closed stores in shopping malls, consumers staying at home for all but essential reasons, and an economy headed for recession: the blow that the coronavirus crisis will deal to the non-food retail market in Poland in 2020 will be a heavy one even under the most optimistic of scenarios, according to a new report from…
The largest retailer of home furnishings market in Poland is IKEA, with more than twice the share of the second-place player, Agata Meble. Apart from furniture chains, the top five also includes a DIY chain, Castorama. DIY retailers are increasingly focusing on the home furnishings offer. An example is Leroy Merlin, which in 2018 launched…
After several years of rapid growth in the market value, lower sales of home furnishings are expected in the 2020-2024 perspective, according to forecasts included in PMR’s latest report “Home furnishings market in Poland 2019. Market analysis and development forecasts for 2019-2024”. Slowdown is coming for home furnishings market in Poland Since 2015, the Polish…
The government plans to impose a new tax on large-format stores, called the congestion tax. It could take effect already on 1 January 2020, Jadwiga Emilewicz, the enterprise and technology minister, said in a radio interview on 29 October. As she explained, the amount of tax would depend, not a store’s sales turnover, but the…
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