Confectionery Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis
Confectionery is sold through one of the broadest spectrums of retail channels of any food product. These channels include supermarkets, grocery stores, mass merchandisers, drugstores, convenience stores, gourmet/specialty stores (including chocolate stores, bulk candy stores, specialty food stores, kitchenware stores, and chains owned by companies that both manufacture and retail chocolate), department stores, health and natural food stores, warehouse clubs, bakeries, coffeehouses and cafés, ethnic markets, movie theaters, kiosks and tobacco stores, card and gift shops, toy stores, office supply stores, florists, transportation terminals, mail-order catalogs, online stores on the Internet, and many others, as well as vending machines and street vendors.
Confectionary sales typically peak at holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Halloween, and confections are historically welcome as gifts and popular as self-indulgences. As a result,
MarketResearch.com’s catalog of reports focusing on confectionery also includes research on the burgeoning food gifting industry, which is expected to see healthy gains through 2016 and beyond.
Confectionery Industry Research & Market Reports
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Food Gifting in the U.S.: Consumer and Corporate, 6th Edition
... Edition, food gifts are defined as food items that are packaged in a way that is suitable for gifting. Food gifts must be purchased; a food item prepared at home and given to someone is ... Read More
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U.S. Food Market Outlook 2018
... retail channels. All retail channels of distribution are covered including supermarkets and grocery stores, mass merchandisers and supercenters, warehouse clubs, specialty food stores, health/natural food stores, convenience stores, drugstores, dollar stores, and direct-sales channels such ... Read More
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Chocolate Candy Market in the U.S., 11th Edition
... the overall confectionery market, defined as the total U.S. market for chocolate/non-chocolate candy and gum. Retail channels include supermarkets and grocery stores, convenience stores, supercenters/mass merchandisers, gourmet/specialty food stores, warehouse clubs, drugstores, gourmet/specialty food stores, ... Read More
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Food Gifting in the U.S., 5th Edition
... in part on trended proprietary survey analysis spanning 2010-2016. The report does the following: Identifies key trends and themes in the food gifting market, supported by examples and related product images. Themes and topics explored ... Read More
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Mother’s Day 2016
... ’s Day as an important occasion, while over a third enjoy shopping for it. Grocers remain key destinations for Mother’s Day purchasing, while M&S was the retailer that consumers felt did the best job of ... Read More
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Easter 2016
... sweet things with Hot cross buns and Easter eggs dominating non-gift food and drink purchases. Discounters are edging away at the big four grocers who had the strongest level of growth. It is clear that ... Read More
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Valentine’s Day 2016
... just under half of all consumers purchased a card/wrap or gift item, views on Valentine’s remain broadly negative – with consumers feeling it is a waste of money and too commercial. Enthusiasm for Valentine’s was ... Read More
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