Category: Ready to Eat
Ready to Eat market research reports by Euromonitor International
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Meals and Soups Packaging in Saudi Arabia
Meals and Soups Packaging in Saudi Arabia Demand for ready meals in Saudi Arabia surged during the pandemic as foodservice closures and fears around food delivery drove home-cooking occasions; ready meals presented a more convenient alternative than cooking meals from scratch. Although the impact of ... Read More
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Meals and Soups Packaging in Spain
Meals and Soups Packaging in Spain Meals and soups total packaging volumes maintained solid growth in 2022, although performances varied across categories and pack types. For instance, in 2022, the pack type share of thin wall plastic containers increased from an already significant base in meals an ... Read More
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Meals and Soups Packaging in Singapore
Meals and Soups Packaging in Singapore Following a surge in demand in 2020, driven by pandemic-induced home seclusion, meals and soups packaging recorded a second consecutive year of retail unit volume decline in 2022 to sit below 2019 levels. Meals and soups packaging in Singapore is facing a decli ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in the United Arab Emirates
Ready Meals Packaging in the United Arab Emirates Although foodservice outlets were closed or only offering limited services when COVID-19 hit the United Arab Emirates in 2020, local consumers had more time on their hands due to lockdowns or home seclusion, enabling them to prepare meals themselves. ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Vietnam
Ready Meals Packaging in Vietnam While consumption of shelf stable ready meals continued to increase in both 2020 and 2021, growth in this category was curbed due to the surging interest in cooking meals at home from scratch using fresh ingredients that has been seen among the Vietnamese population ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in the United Kingdom
Ready Meals Packaging in the United Kingdom While dinner mixes was already the most dynamic category in ready meals packaging prior to the pandemic, it received a major spike in its demand in 2020, as the COVID-19 restrictions boosted demand for these products. With consumers in home seclusion and a ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Turkey
Ready Meals Packaging in Turkey As consumers had been spending more time at home during the pandemic, but were wearying of preparing their own meals or were still working, even if from home, and had less time for meal preparation, they were increasingly opting for frozen ready meals in 2021. This wa ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Switzerland
Ready Meals Packaging in Switzerland The positive growth registered in ready meals packaging during 2020 can be attributed mainly to the spike seen in demand for ready meals within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the requirement for all consumer foodservice outlets to close their ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Sweden
Ready Meals Packaging in Sweden COVID-19 drove a significant increase in demand for ready meals packaging in 2020, with further strong growth seen in 2021. Spending more time at home than usual led to a spike in the retail volume sales of ready meals owing to the ease and convenience that they offer ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in South Korea
Ready Meals Packaging in South Korea The packaging unit volumes of thin wall plastic containers used in shelf stable ready meals saw notable growth in 2020, with slower but still positive growth being seen in 2021. This can be attributed to the onset of the pandemic and related stockpiling trends, w ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Spain
Ready Meals Packaging in Spain Chilled ready meals continued to record strong unit volume growth in its packaging in 2021. While consumers in home seclusion had been looking for easy options to cook and eat a year earlier in 2020, as consumer mobility increased in 2021, home cooking was decreasing, ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Thailand
Ready Meals Packaging in Thailand With many consumers spending more time at home due to the pandemic, the home cooking trend was bolstered in 2020. This led to a decline in ready meals packaging volumes in 2019-2020 as more people cooked from scratch. In 2021, the home cooking trend somewhat subside ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in the US
Ready Meals Packaging in the US 2020 saw a surge in demand for ready meals packaging, as fears of supply chain disruption led consumers to stockpile ready meals, with frozen ready meals in paper-based cartons proving to be particularly popular. Frozen pizza was also a standout category within ready ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in South Africa
Ready Meals Packaging in South Africa Frozen ready meals was the main winner during the pandemic, recording strong double-digit percentage growth in its packaging unit volumes in both 2020 and 2021. This boosted the packaging unit volumes of folding cartons in these years, given it is the only pack ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Saudi Arabia
Ready Meals Packaging in Saudi Arabia In 2020, demand for ready-to-cook frozen products in ready meals increased as the country entered a national lockdown period in the first half of the year. At this point, many consumers entered home seclusion to protect themselves and others from the COVID-19 pa ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Romania
Ready Meals Packaging in Romania Demand for ready meals packaging was expanding rapidly in Romania during the review period, prior to the onset of pandemic. Urbanisation was the main driver of this growth, as accelerating lifestyles meant that many consumers had less time to prepare meals, in additi ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Poland
Ready Meals Packaging in Poland Even before the onset of COVID-19, the review period had seen strong growth in demand for ready meals packaging, but the pandemic added impetus to this trend in 2020. With consumers spending more time at home during the year, they ate more meals there. However, with a ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in the Philippines
Ready Meals Packaging in the Philippines The COVID-19 pandemic was beneficial for sales of ready meals in the Philippines during 2020 as the imposition of quarantine lockdowns and the strict approach taken to social distancing and home seclusion meant that many consumers spent much of their time at ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in the Netherlands
Ready Meals Packaging in the Netherlands As the number of consumers dining at home increased during lockdown, meal kit producers experienced a surge in demand. As a result, packaging unit volumes of folding cartons and flexible plastic used in dinner mixes recorded explosive growth in 2020. While un ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Malaysia
Ready Meals Packaging in Malaysia Growth in packaging demand accelerated sharply in ready meals during 2020. COVID-19 led to consumers spending more time at home, while foodservice outlets were forced to close for an extended period. In this context, demand for ready meals grew as an affordable and ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Japan
Ready Meals Packaging in Japan In contrast to most other ready meal types, demand for chilled ready meals packaging declined during 2020. While chilled ready meals still accounted for the largest share of packaging unit volumes in ready meals, they lost ground to products with a longer shelf life, s ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Mexico
Ready Meals Packaging in Mexico Demand for ready meals packaging rose at its most rapid rate for many years in 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions led to consumers spending more time at home and therefore eating more meals there. Dried ready meals, shelf stable ready meals, frozen ready meals and chilled ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Italy
Ready Meals Packaging in Italy With the COVID-19 pandemic seeing consumers spending a lot more time at home, and with consumer foodservice outlets closed for extended periods, this boosted demand for some products in ready meals. For example, with consumers preparing and eating more meals at home th ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in Indonesia
Ready Meals Packaging in Indonesia For extended periods over the last two years (2020 and 2021), consumers in Indonesia have been in home seclusion in order to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country. As consumers spent more time at home, home cooking became a more important element of ... Read More
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Ready Meals Packaging in India
Ready Meals Packaging in India Following the outbreak of COVID-19, consumers faced rising uncertainty as to the stability of life in India. Furthermore, consumers saw their movements heavily restricted for much of 2020 due to the implementation of national lockdown measures designed to curb the spre ... Read More
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