How does the Dominican Republic consumer perceive olive oil?

In recent years, the supply of the edible oils sector in the Dominican Republic has increased, mainly due to the development of the distribution industry. The size of the stores, the diversification of products and services and the distribution model have undergone significant changes that, added to the moderate but sustained population growth of recent years, the advance of urbanization, tourism promotion and the increase in income per capita, have caused the Dominican market demand for olive products to continue to grow despite an increasingly clear maturity trend. According to the ICEX study, the olive oil item has grown between 2015 and 2020 in its sales volume of 17.6%, very close to the average for the sector, which stands at 19.3%. The categories with the lowest growth are sunflower oil (-0.5%) with negative growth, followed by palm oil with 9.4% for the same period. The largest growth is observed in the category of other oils, due to the increase in the consumption of oils ...