Spending on homewares will continue to grow as consumers spend more time at home, but stock shortages and increased investment could take the edge off strong profit growth at Breville and Adairs this year.

Breville chief executive Jim Clayton said the shift to working from home had increased the size of the appliance seller’s potential market, opening up new areas of growth unforeseen before the pandemic, but demand was likely to differ market to market depending on vaccine uptake.