Website: Consumer goods

Consumer goods are goods that are acquired for final consumption by households or individual consumers. The sector encompasses a wide variety of products including food, soft drinks, alcohol, tobacco, textiles, clothing, footwear, leather products, wood/rubber/glass/ceramic/plastic and metal products, detergents, cleaning and polishing preparations, cosmetics and perfumes, electrical equipment, domestic appliances, watches and clocks, jewellery, furniture, medical equipment, precision and optical equipment, musical instruments, sports goods, toys, cutlery, tools and general hardware. If competition is weak in this area, individuals are directly affected. The European Commission therefore aims to safeguard competition for the benefit of the consumer.