Category: Food
Food market research reports by Euromonitor International
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World Market for Dairy Products and Alternatives
World Market for Dairy Products and Alternatives As global inflation and GDP growth rates decline, the dairy products and alternatives industry expects low value growth in 2024, although the forecast period looks more promising. In this context, private label is expanding as consumers prioritise aff ... Read More
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Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Slovakia
Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Slovakia In 2024, cooking ingredients and meal sales continued to record strong retail value growth. However, rising prices somewhat drove value growth, while challenging retail volume sales. Many consumers focused spending on essential areas during a time of ongoing ... Read More
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Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Hungary
Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Hungary Retail sales of cooking ingredients and meals in Hungary are set to register buoyant growth in current value terms in 2024. While this is partly a result of inflationary pressures, these are significantly easing compared to the high levels experienced in 2022 ... Read More
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Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Norway
Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Norway Cooking ingredients and meals in Norway is seeing a continued shift towards normalisation in 2024, with purchasing habits and growth starting to resemble pre-pandemic patterns. Several segments posted fluctuating sales for much of the review period, first due ... Read More
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Staple Foods in Italy
Staple Foods in Italy Staple foods in Italy in 2024 continues to be characterised by a decrease in consumption in terms of volume, which is mainly attributable to the high inflation seen in 2023 in particular. Within this context, many consumers were forced to review their purchasing choices, both f ... Read More
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Edible Oils in Lithuania
Edible Oils in Lithuania In 2024, Lithuania's edible oils category experienced a decline in growth, reflecting a challenging market environment. The category remains saturated and largely fluctuates in response to global commodity prices. Whilst vegetable oil prices have remained relatively stable, ... Read More
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Meals and Soups in Norway
Meals and Soups in Norway Meals and soups remains on its stable and positive growth trajectory in Norway in 2024, supported by a strong convenience trend and increasingly high-quality ready meals. The overall category is home to huge numbers of new product launches and a lot of novelty value, natura ... Read More
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Edible Oils in Slovakia
Edible Oils in Slovakia In 2024, the edible oils landscape saw a positive uplift, bolstered by promotions and discounts, as consumers actively sought ways to save money amid economic pressures. Many shoppers use loyalty programs, retailer smartphone apps, and online platforms to find more favourable ... Read More
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Edible Oils in Taiwan
Edible Oils in Taiwan Retail and foodservice volume sales of edible oils in Taiwan increased steadily in 2024, with foodservice reaching close to pre-pandemic levels. Consumers are resuming their dining out habits resulting in the steady return of foodservice volume sales. Retail volume sales have s ... Read More
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Meals and Soups in Croatia
Meals and Soups in Croatia Meals and soup is expected to be the best performing product among cooking ingredients and meals in Croatia in 2024, registering both healthy current value and volume growth. Consumers’ increasingly busy lives is contributing to this growth. Shelf stable ready meals accoun ... Read More
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Sweet Spreads in Romania
Sweet Spreads in Romania The rising price of raw ingredients, packaging, energy and logistics weighed heavily on sweet spreads in 2024, with volume sales declining in Romania. Despite the strong tradition of consuming jams and preserves, packaged formats face strong competition from home-made jams a ... Read More
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Breakfast Cereals in Chile
Breakfast Cereals in Chile The landscape of children's breakfast cereals in Chile is undergoing a significant transformation in response to increasing awareness among local parents about their children's nutritional needs. In particular, there has been a notable shift in parental attitudes towards h ... Read More
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Breakfast Cereals in Italy
Breakfast Cereals in Italy Breakfast cereals is achieving small positive volume gains in Italy in 2024, whilst value is better supported by high unit prices. As seen across categories, high prices caused by inflation are causing suppressed volume sales. In breakfast cereals, we note that the event o ... Read More
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Baked Goods in Italy
Baked Goods in Italy Baked goods is seeing relatively low value gains in Italy in 2024, while retail volume is flat. Bread-based products are noted to have been challenged by inflationary pressures in both 2023 and 2024, making this a category in which consumers have been rationalising their purchas ... Read More
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Meals and Soups in Taiwan
Meals and Soups in Taiwan With consumers increasingly dining out once again in Taiwan, there has been a decline in the frequency of consuming ready meals at home. There was a modest uptick in price, reflecting the broader economic conditions, that also curbed some demand. Nonetheless, volume sales o ... Read More
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Sauces, Dips and Condiments in Spain
Sauces, Dips and Condiments in Spain Sauces, dips, and condiments is expected to see sluggish volume growth in Spain in 2024, as it is negatively impacted by the stagnation of the mature cooking ingredients and condiments subcategory, but supported by visible demand for sauces. While traditional Tom ... Read More
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Edible Oils in Hungary
Edible Oils in Hungary The edible oils market in Hungary is still largely dominated by sunflower oil, which is set to see an increase in demand in 2024, due to its affordability in a price-sensitive environment. Following the dramatic price hikes in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which sig ... Read More
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Sauces, Dips and Condiments in the Czech Republic
Sauces, Dips and Condiments in the Czech Republic Sauces, dips and condiments in the Czech Republic was hit by a high inflation rate in 2023. This left Czech consumers in a worse economic situation amid cost-of-living hikes and resulted in a drop in demand. In 2024, the situation changed, especially ... Read More
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Meals and Soups in Pakistan
Meals and Soups in Pakistan Meals and soups in Pakistan is an underdeveloped category in cooking ingredients and meals. At the end of the review period, only soup registered significant retail volume and value sales, while foodservice volume sales were negligible across the board. Even within soup, ... Read More
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Sweet Spreads in Norway
Sweet Spreads in Norway Sweet spreads in Norway is seeing an improved performance in 2024 as the decline experienced post-pandemic is starting to subside. However, retail volume growth remains low thanks to maturity, as well as the perceived unhealthy nature of many of the category’s products. Still ... Read More
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Sweet Spreads in Spain
Sweet Spreads in Spain Sweet spreads is expected to see retail volume sales stagnate in Spain in 2024, while retail value sales rise in current terms. Chocolate spreads was significantly impacted by inflation in 2023, resulting in double-digit value growth but stagnation in volume, and volume consum ... Read More
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Sauces, Dips and Condiments in Pakistan
Sauces, Dips and Condiments in Pakistan All significant types of sauces, dips and condiments in Pakistan continued to enjoy strong retail and foodservice volume growth in 2024. Meanwhile, retail current value sales maintained dynamic increments amid high inflationary pressure on prices. However, com ... Read More
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Meals and Soups in Georgia
Meals and Soups in Georgia Meals and soups is set to see a significant increase in retail value sales in current terms in Georgia in 2024. Frozen ready meals’ dominance is a significant propellant for the broad spectrum of meals and soups within the country. Traditional Georgian specialities such as ... Read More
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Rice, Pasta and Noodles in Ukraine
Rice, Pasta and Noodles in Ukraine Rice suffered the heaviest losses following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This was largely due to the interruptions caused to the supply of rice to Ukrainian retail outlets as much of the rice consumed in Ukraine prior to Russia’s invasion was cultivated in ... Read More
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Sweet Spreads in the Czech Republic
Sweet Spreads in the Czech Republic The demand for sweet spreads in the Czech Republic was adversely affected by high inflation and cost-of-living hikes towards the end of the review period. Amid economic pressures, sweet spreads were viewed as non-essential, prompting some consumers to reduce or li ... Read More
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