Despite negative publicity on a national TV show and static numbers of vapers, the market for e-cigarettes continues to grow in China as consumer preferences change. ECigIntelligence investigates in its latest market...
New brand launches suggest the Indonesia market is changing shape, but advanced systems still dominate and the retail sector remains focussed in key areas ...
The e-cig market in South Africa is worth ZAR450m in 2019 ($32.3m) and growing, with 150,000 vapers in the country and an estimated 55,000 daily users (around 36%). Check out the new ECigIntelligence report, looking...
In our latest look at Portugal we show what effect recent legislative changes have had and how the new tax regime is taking effect, and examine hardware trends ...
Around 70% of French tobacconists offer vaping products; ECigIntelligence believes the channel generates around 15-20% of all vape sales in France. The market is growing; we found out how and why ...
Our analysis of vape stores in Quebec, Canada, revealed that independent stores sell a larger range of vaping products than chain stores. Closed systems are the dominant type of e-cigarettes and Vype was the most...
In our latest look at the e-cig market in the United Kingdom we look at pods and nicotine salts to see how things have changed over previous quarters ...
In our latest look at the Japanese market, we find that there are now more heated tobacco than e-cigarette users. There has been a steady decline of the vape market through 2017-2019, and a larger...
In our latest look at the Canadian market, we find that most sales come through the offline channel. More mainstream retail outlets have started to carry e-cigarette products and e-liquids were cheaper in physical shops...
In our latest look at the Greek market, we find Greek vapers prefer open system devices, the offline channel currently generates more sales and electronic cigarettes are now more widely available compared to previous years...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 13th December 2018
In our latest look at the German market, we can see that the number of vape stores has increased in all Länder. This is due to an increase in vapers and a shift from the...
Our in-depth report finds a Russian e-cigarette market in a state of stagnation, with little change in the number of vapers and a fall in the number of vape stores, while PMI and BAT find...
Written by Migle Malinovskyte | 13th September 2018
ECigIntelligence believes the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA) will have a positive impact on the Canadian vaping industry by providing long-awaited certainty ...
The anticipation of new regulations makes the outlook for future growth in the Malaysian e-cigarette market doubtful. The market is dominated by open-system e-devices, while most sales are through specialist vape stores ...
The South Korean e-cigarette market is tied in with the heat-not-burn category and future market development will partly depend on how consumers react to the latest moves in HnB regulation ...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 2nd July 2018
Our overview of developments in Latin America explores the varying situation of e-cigarettes and vaping in the most developed markets in the region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru ...
The Irish e-cigarette market, which though smaller has a similar structure to the British one, has remained stable since last year, with slow growth. Vape stores drive the vast majority of sales, with an immature...
In our detailed look at the market in Alberta, we find that the main distribution channel is through more than 130 vapes stores and the market is dominated by open basic systems ...
After early growth, the vaping population of Romania has levelled out at around 200,000, just over 4% of the smoking population – but the country is a prime testing ground for heated tobacco, with IQOS,...
In our look at British Columbia we find open system products dominate, taking up 85% of the market. However, as closed type pod kits have now became available, we expect the share of closed system...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 30th April 2018
As the vaping lifestyle trend expires, the Chinese vaping industry struggles to become an option for smokers in a country where smoking is culturally ingrained. Meanwhile, vape stores close and the big online marketplaces dominate...
ECigIntelligence returns to look at South Korea, where the heated tobacco market emerged in in 2017 when PMI launched IQOS — a move that was followed by the launches of both Glo and Lil ...
Japan has been at the forefront of the growing heated tobacco market, and in this report ECigIntelligence looks at the marketing conditions and compares the leading brands ...
Two heated tobacco brands have been launched in Russia by Big Tobacco: IQOS from PMI and BAT’s Glo. And all the signs are that the products are gradually gaining in interest and popularity in one...
Our latest report on the state of the e-cigarette market in Italy finds that strict regulation has caused a fall in the size of the market – but not as steep as the fall in...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 14th March 2018
Rapid growth we previously reported in the German e-cigarette market has slowed, but our latest report details a number of reasons why we still expect it to grow further in the future ...
France is a mature e-cig market that is growing at a stable pace. The main distribution channel for vapour products is around 2500 vape stores but we expect sales to increase significantly in tobacconists ...
In our latest look at the UK market we see that the distribution share of mainstream retail has remained stable. The channel is dominated by tobacco companies and it is difficult for small companies to...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 21st February 2018
In our latest look at the Spanish market, we see that open system products dominate, online remains the most important distribution channel and IQOS is the only Big Tobacco e-cig product currently available ...
Written by Migle Malinovskyte | 20th February 2018
In our latest look at Canada we focus on Quebec, where the e-cig industry is subject to strict regulations. There is no country-wide regulation as yet, but this looks set to change with Bill S-5...
The Belgian e-cigarette market is highly regulated but growing fast, with the number of vape stores in the country having doubled since last year’s implementation of the European TPD legalised nicotine e-cigs ...
Our study of the online market in South Africa, where e-cigarettes have gained a good deal of traction over the past year, analyses brands, products and prices on the country’s 20 leading e-cig websites ...
Our survey of the Polish e-cigarette market finds a continuing move towards advanced open systems, but a mood of pessimism in the face of forthcoming taxation ...
Our report considers how the free flow of goods, common customs tariff and cancellation of customs formalities affects the e-cigarette market within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia ...
Market growth for e-cigarette products peaked in Ukraine last year; our latest report details the state of an unregulated market in a phase of stability or light growth ...
Written by Migle Malinovskyte | 19th December 2017
In our latest look at Canada, we find that open system products dominate, taking up approximately 85% of the Ontario market, with a high prevalence of basic models. Most sales come through the offline channel,...
With fewer smokers than in other countries, there is less scope for e-cigarettes to flourish in either country – but legal changes afoot in New Zealand reveal a more positive attitude to vaping than in...
Since the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) was implemented, the Greek e-cigarette market has shifted towards using shake and vape e-liquids, as they are exempt from the new tax ...
Nicotine-containing e-cigs and e-liquids have been sold legally in Sweden since 2016 and the market has been gradually growing - but there are still obstacles in its way ...
Written by Nicolás Leonardo Dejtiar | 5th October 2017
Our survey of the vaping market in Israel finds little optimism among the cluster of small businesses operating in a country where smoking is on the rise again ...
In our latest look at the UK market, we find there are approximately 2.8m vapers, an increase of around 12% since 2015. Most are daily users, and there is a clear preference for open system...