By Ellis Hawthorne2020-12-18T00:01:00+00:00
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Brits have been obsessed with washing their hands this year. Sadly for the laundry category, the same can’t be said about washing their clothes. Sales of detergent are down by £15.1m, after 119.6 million fewer packs landed in shoppers’ baskets.
Own-label’s £9.8m loss is largely responsible for the value decline – although top 10 brands Ariel, Bold, Vanish and Daz have lost £17.1m between them.
Predictably, the increase in home working has been the most significant blow to the category. The effect of the first lockdown was felt almost immediately: the average number of weekly laundry loads in homes dropped by 6% between March and April, according to Ecover. The brand is one of the few laundry detergent success stories, up 13% in value.