2019 UK car tyre market stagnates But all-season and SUV tyres still growing strongly

摘要

THE COMBINATION OF POLITICAL disruption and Brexit uncertainty made 2019 a tough year for the UK economy in general, so it is not surprising to learn that this was reflected in the overall passenger car tyre replacement market. According to the latest sell-out UK tyre replacement market data collated by analysts at GfK, the headline news is that both the value and the volume of the decreased in 2019. But there are reasons for hope, with signs of growth remaining in the value-rich SUV tyre sub-segment and with evidence of strong growth in sales of all-season tyres. GfK's data is based on the company's "panelmarket" of tyre retail sell-out sources. It compares the period from January 2018 to December 2018 with January 2019 to December 2019 and is distilled into the below infographic.