Total retail performance was 2.2 per cent up compared to last week and 0.9 per cent up compared to the same time last year. Overall the growth has been neutral over the last 12 weeks and based on the forecast looks to recover to modest growth over the next nine weeks. The top performing category, Natural Medicine was 102.8 per cent greater than the next largest category, Baby, last week. The top brands are A2, Panadol and Elevit. At the same time last year, Elevit, Panadol and Swisse were the top three brands.
Two Codral products have entered the top 10 this week, albeit at lower sales than same time last year. Perhaps we are in for a slower start than we thought.
This report is based on sales in the last week from approximately 2000 pharmacies. The “Top 10 Products Chart” only reports where the number of stores the item was sold exceeds 400.
