This report examines the Spanish retail market for suncare preparations. It analyses the factors driving the market in terms of supply and demand and how they manifest themselves in terms of market performance and manufacturer positioning.

Despite a minor slowdown in 2006, the Spanish suncare market remains dynamic, benefiting from a strong economy, growing consumer wealth and suppliers’ constant new product development, which has segmented the previously underdeveloped market to offer consumers an increasingly sophisticated and well-defined range of sun protection, after-sun and self-tanning preparations.