European Staples Distilled and Packaged: Our take on the sector, US credit card spending, H1 previews, and more...

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European Staples Distilled and Packaged: Our take on the sector, US credit card spending, H1 previews, and more...

J P M O R G A N Europe Equity Research

15 June 2026

European Staples

Distilled and Packaged: Our take on the sector, US

credit card spending, H1 previews, and more...

European Staples outperformed the market this week across all sub-sectors except European Food Producers,

Beverages. Ingredients led performance and we previewed reassuring top-line Household & Personal Care

momentum into Q2 across Givaudan (which we placed on Positive CW), Symrise and Products, Beverages & Tobacco

Kerry. On the macro, the ECB raised interest rates by 25bps to 2.25% (in line with our Celine Pannuti, CFA AC

Economists’ expectations) and Eurozone CPI picked up to +3.2% in May. Meanwhile, (44-20) 7134-7123

US CPI reached +4.2% in May. We launched our inaugural monthly US Chase credit celine.pannuti@jpmorgan.com

card spending tracker for Staples, “From Cart to Card”, which showed soft off- Edward G Hockin AC

premise food and beverage trends (grocery and liquor stores), though more resilient (44-20) 7742-6937

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restaurant, bars and health and personal care stores. In addition, we’ve published the

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key highlights from our “AI in Staples” events last week, including an overview of

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strategies and opportunities shared by experts and corporate executives. J.P. Morgan Securities plc

• In Food/HPC, we started our Q2/H1 previews, so far broadly expecting an Specialist Sales contact details:

acceleration in the quarter. We’ve added Givaudan to Positive Catalyst Watch

Olivia Petronilho - Specialist Sales - as we expect Q2 LFL to accelerate to +4.1%, which should place performance European Consumer