Coresight Bites: US Handbag Retailing—Inflation To Impact Market Growth Before Normalization

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• Following a substantial pandemic-led decline in 2020, the US handbag market recovered strongly in 2021, with total sales exceeding pre-pandemic levels.
• Price rises have driven growth in consumer spending on handbags in 2022.
• We expect that economic pressures including the impacts of inflation overall will see unit volumes down year over year in 2023—resulting in a low-single-digit percentage decline in the market’s value.

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