This statistic displays the number of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017. As of the 52 week period ending December 30, 2017, there were nearly 360 million units of hygiene products sold in Great Britain. The statistic shows that the most popular personal hygiene paper product for unit sales is sanitary protection, which has a total of 165.4 million units. The next most popular personal hygiene paper product is facial tissues, where the unit sales reached 144.6 million.
Number of unit sales of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017
(in million units)
The source provides the following information, Source of information: Produced by IRI from the IRI InfoScan syndicated Health and Beauty databases.
Retail Coverage: IRI InfoScan retail universe covers all multiple and independent pharmacies (including Boots, Superdrug, Wilkinson, Lloydspharmacy etc) and most supermarket and grocery outlets in Great Britain including grocery symbol groups and independents. Major exclusions: wider impulse sectors; sales in Northern Ireland; sales through health food stores, mail order, internet-only vendors (eg Amazon), discount stores (eg, Aldi,Lidl, Poundland).
Data is aggregated census EPOS for multiple retailers with sampled EPOS for independents and symbols. Retail sales value is what is actually paid by the consumer including VAT and net of any promotion. Medicine sales are Over-the-counter only and do not include semi-ethical sales or dispensed prescription sales of either P or GSL licensed products.
The data includes figures for Own Label sales and generic brands
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IRI. (December 30, 2017). Number of unit sales of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017 (in million units) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 03, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/720674/personal-hygiene-paper-unit-sales-great-britain-uk/
IRI. "Number of unit sales of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017 (in million units)." Chart. December 30, 2017. Statista. Accessed December 03, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/720674/personal-hygiene-paper-unit-sales-great-britain-uk/
IRI. (2017). Number of unit sales of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017 (in million units). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 03, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/720674/personal-hygiene-paper-unit-sales-great-britain-uk/
IRI. "Number of Unit Sales of Personal Hygiene Paper Products in Great Britain in 2017 (in Million Units)." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Dec 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/720674/personal-hygiene-paper-unit-sales-great-britain-uk/
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Number of unit sales of personal hygiene paper products in Great Britain in 2017 (in million units) [Graph], IRI, December 30, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/720674/personal-hygiene-paper-unit-sales-great-britain-uk/
