Category: Food & Beverage
Food & Beverage market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Supermarkets in Switzerland
Supermarkets saw a decline in 2024 both in current value terms and in terms of the number of outlets. The decline in value sales was due in part to the decreasing number of outlets with companies restructuring and closing less profitable outlets. However, it was also due to the higher level of price ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in Switzerland
Small local grocers suffered the consequences of consumers aiming to reduce their overall spending in 2024. Many people looked to cut down on purchasing non-essential items while others shopped at less expensive outlets including discounters, supermarkets, and hypermarkets, or waiting until items we ... Read More
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Vending in Switzerland
Vending in Switzerland remains mainly limited to drinks, tobacco products, and foods and snacks vending. There are, however, a few exceptions and pilot projects offering other products from grocery retailers and drugstores, such as vending machines that offer an automated 24/7 service. With people s ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Nigeria
Supermarkets in Nigeria continued to build momentum in 2024, benefiting from a mix of expansion into tier cities, digital integration, and value-driven offerings such as loyalty schemes and private label. Retailers like Spar adopted conservative physical expansion strategies, instead focusing on par ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in Nigeria
Despite the rise of modern grocery channels, small local grocers continued to thrive in 2024, supported by the informal sector’s vast economic footprint and the needs of lower-income households. With around 40 million small enterprises, informal retail remains the backbone of Nigeria’s grocery lands ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the United Arab Emirates
Despite a positive performance in value sales terms, the number of small local grocers in the United Arab Emirates continued to decline in 2024. This was primarily due to rising urbanisation rates, increased demand for diversified offerings, and lack of competitiveness with modern grocery retailers ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates
Supermarkets in the United Arab Emirates continued to expand in 2024, supported by a steady increase in the population. In particular, there was steady growth in the number of outlets in peripheral urban areas and other emirates such as Al Ain, as an increasing number of operators looked to leverage ... Read More
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Vending in the United Arab Emirates
Vending in the United Arab Emirates continued to record strong value growth in 2024, albeit from a low base. The channel is benefiting from ongoing infrastructure development and a growing need for convenience among consumers. This trend is further reinforced by innovations that provide more automat ... Read More
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Weight Management and Wellbeing in Brazil
After a year of double-digit growth in 2023, 2024 has presented a more restrained scenario, with weight management and wellbeing in Brazil expected to show limited growth in retail current value terms. However, performances are set to vary significantly across the different categories. The weakest p ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in Egypt
Small local grocers retained their position as the largest channel within Egypt’s grocery retail landscape in 2024, despite facing a more challenging operating environment. Intensified competition from modern grocery formats, particularly discounters and supermarkets, has led to growing pressure on ... Read More
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How Trump's Economic Policies Affect Industries and Consumer Markets
Significant shifts in US policies on tariffs, taxation, spending, regulation, migration, AI/tech, and energy are expected to impact the global economy and key industries like food and drinks, health and beauty, home and tech, travel, and automotive. Trump's policies can undermine global economic gro ... Read More
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Sports Nutrition in Brazil
For the second consecutive year, sports nutrition is set to be the fastest-growing category in consumer health in Brazil. For four years in a row, its growth has been in the high double-digits, with an impressive 27% increase anticipated in 2024. One standout is protein/energy bars, which is expecte ... Read More
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Supermarkets in Egypt
Supermarkets remained the largest modern grocery format in Egypt in 2024, owing to their widespread geographical coverage and ability to serve a broad spectrum of income groups. The format continues to benefit from shifting consumer preferences in urban areas, where more shoppers are turning to mode ... Read More
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RTD Coffee in Brazil
Even though RTD coffee maintained strong growth in off-trade volume terms in Brazil in 2024, it remained by far the smallest soft drinks category in the country. Although Brazil is the largest market for hot coffee in the world (considering volume sales of hot drinks), it places well down the rankin ... Read More
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Supermarkets in the United Kingdom
Supermarkets in the UK experienced sluggish growth in 2024, as economic pressures and shifting consumer habits continued to reshape the grocery retail landscape. While inflation levels continued to gradually ease following their peak in 2022, the cost-of-living crisis persisted at the end of the rev ... Read More
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Juice in Brazil
Even though packaged juice represents a smaller part of soft drinks revenues, juice is a strong preference amongst Brazilians, due to the wide availability of fruits in the country, especially for home-made preparations. Orange is traditionally one of the most important juice flavours in Brazil. Acc ... Read More
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Rice, Pasta and Noodles in India
Despite already dominating staple foods in India – accounting for three quarters of value sales – rice, pasta and noodles saw the strongest retail current value growth rate in 2024, with all categories seeing increasing sales. Although rice dominates, pasta and noodles have been undergoing notable t ... Read More
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Small Local Grocers in the United Kingdom
Small local grocers in the UK faced a challenging 2024, with both sales and outlet numbers experiencing a decline, in line with the channel’s weak performance over the previous two years. Local consumers continued to shift towards larger grocery formats, discounters, and online grocery shopping, see ... Read More
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Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Latin America
The inflationary environment was impacting the performances of some country markets at the end of the review period, with sales declining or stagnating in Argentina and Mexico in 2024, for example, although the Brazilian market, the region’s biggest, recorded another year of healthy growth in this y ... Read More
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Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Middle East and Africa
In recent years, volume sales of cooking ingredients and meals have been struggling in the face of rising costs and prices due to the inflationary global environment as well as more localised problems, such as the frequent loadshedding in South Africa or currency devaluations. However, positive volu ... Read More
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Soft Drinks in Brazil
In 2024, stable off-trade volume growth was maintained in soft drinks in Brazil, with sales increasing across most categories. Brazil is a significant player in the global soft drinks industry, with some unique characteristics that set it apart from other countries. Unlike the global scenario, in wh ... Read More
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Vending in the United Kingdom
Vending in the UK continued to record a strong performance in 2024, with local consumers increasingly valuing speed and accessibility in their shopping habits. Vending, offering quick, contactless transactions at all hours, has witnessed increased footfall in high-traffic areas such as transport hub ... Read More
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Sports Drinks in Brazil
In 2024, sports drinks in Brazil saw another year of exceptional double-digit off-trade volume growth, maintaining the trend seen since 2021, with both regular and sugar-free sports drinks seeing strong increases. The recent jump in the pace of growth can mostly be explained by the small baseline of ... Read More
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Baked Goods in India
Although seeing a slight slowdown in growth, in 2024 baked goods in India maintained nearly double-digit retail current value growth. Baked goods has seen a significant rise in hybrid bakery products that blend traditional Indian flavours with Western baking techniques. While croissants and sourdoug ... Read More
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Bottled Water in Brazil
Bottled water in Brazil maintained slow and stable off-trade volume growth in 2024, with sales increasing across all categories. The heatwaves in the country throughout the year led to intensified demand for cold non-alcoholic drinks, including bottled water. In addition, there is growing consumer a ... Read More
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