More companies are making hand sanitizer in 2021
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Purell was not the only company that saw opportunity and decided to change its business model to meet demand. Other companies would eventually pivot to do the same, and as a result, making hand sanitizers became a side business that hundreds of smaller, local distilleries decided to undertake (via Distilled Spirits). Even big consumer companies like Proctor and Gamble decided to up its production of Safeguard-branded hand sanitizer.
Given that it seems everyone and their brother has gone into the hand sanitizer manufacturing business, we likely won’t be seeing the same shortages that we saw when the coronavirus pandemic first began. But that view comes with a caveat. In one survey conducted in July, Inmar Intelligence found that 69% of respondents said they were planning to replenish their stocks of paper products and hand sanitizer to prepare for the Delta variant. “The unknowns around vaccination status of other shoppers, anxiousness of what is to come in terms of additional variants, and potential of increased prices have created a culture where a stockpile will always exist. Retailers will need to continue to be nimble and pivot quickly to keep up with changing behaviors and expectations,” Inmar Intelligence’s Corporate Marketing SVP Holly Pavlika said.
So while it doesn’t seem likely that we will have to resort to making our own hand sanitizers with spirits like we did in 2020, what has now become a commodity may not be as easy to come by as we’d like to believe.
Will The Delta Variant Cause Another Hand Sanitizer Shortage In 2021?
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By Hope Ngo/Aug. 26, 2021 10:32 pm EST
More companies are making hand sanitizer in 2021
Maridav/Shutterstock
Purell was not the only company that saw opportunity and decided to change its business model to meet demand. Other companies would eventually pivot to do the same, and as a result, making hand sanitizers became a side business that hundreds of smaller, local distilleries decided to undertake (via Distilled Spirits). Even big consumer companies like Proctor and Gamble decided to up its production of Safeguard-branded hand sanitizer.
Given that it seems everyone and their brother has gone into the hand sanitizer manufacturing business, we likely won’t be seeing the same shortages that we saw when the coronavirus pandemic first began. But that view comes with a caveat. In one survey conducted in July, Inmar Intelligence found that 69% of respondents said they were planning to replenish their stocks of paper products and hand sanitizer to prepare for the Delta variant. “The unknowns around vaccination status of other shoppers, anxiousness of what is to come in terms of additional variants, and potential of increased prices have created a culture where a stockpile will always exist. Retailers will need to continue to be nimble and pivot quickly to keep up with changing behaviors and expectations,” Inmar Intelligence’s Corporate Marketing SVP Holly Pavlika said.
So while it doesn’t seem likely that we will have to resort to making our own hand sanitizers with spirits like we did in 2020, what has now become a commodity may not be as easy to come by as we’d like to believe.
Given that it seems everyone and their brother has gone into the hand sanitizer manufacturing business, we likely won’t be seeing the same shortages that we saw when the coronavirus pandemic first began. But that view comes with a caveat. In one survey conducted in July, Inmar Intelligence found that 69% of respondents said they were planning to replenish their stocks of paper products and hand sanitizer to prepare for the Delta variant.
“The unknowns around vaccination status of other shoppers, anxiousness of what is to come in terms of additional variants, and potential of increased prices have created a culture where a stockpile will always exist. Retailers will need to continue to be nimble and pivot quickly to keep up with changing behaviors and expectations,” Inmar Intelligence’s Corporate Marketing SVP Holly Pavlika said.
So while it doesn’t seem likely that we will have to resort to making our own hand sanitizers with spirits like we did in 2020, what has now become a commodity may not be as easy to come by as we’d like to believe.
