Category: Food & Beverage
Europe Food & Beverage
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Croatia Sugar Confectionery
... private label sugar confectionery. Consumers are actively seeking out budget-friendly options, with larger pack sizes and price promotions holding particular appeal. Retailers have responded by tailoring their offerings to meet this demand, a trend that ... Read More
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Greece Snacks
... higher rate of current value growth, this will be due to inflationary-led price increases, sparked by the ramifications of global conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. While the rate of inflation has been easing ... Read More
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Ukraine Chocolate Confectionery
... seen in 2022 when war broke out. Mondelez Ukraine, which produces the Korona and Milka brands, saw a significant drop in retail value share in 2022, as higher prices and logistics issues hampered supply and ... Read More
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Greece Gum
... struggling with the high cost of living, many are cutting down on discretionary expenditures in order to save money. The post-pandemic boom in in mobility, which created favourable conditions for chewing gum, is also beginning ... Read More
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Greece Sugar Confectionery
... and attract health-conscious consumers, many confectioners are being compelled to promote the health-related benefits of their sugar confectionery, while there is a growing demand for sugar substitutes, like stevia. One product area to benefit from ... Read More
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Slovakia Ice Cream
... is being balanced out by warm weather and out-of-home lifestyles attracting consumers to ice cream. Added to which, to maintain the perception of relative price stability, retailers reduced pack sizes and foodservice establishments adopted smaller ... Read More
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Austria Sugar Confectionery
... remained stable in 2024. The demand for sugar confectionery varies from product to product. Those positioned in line with health and wellness trends fared better than others. Health claims including sugar free, reduced sugar, or ... Read More
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Ukraine Sugar Confectionery
... company offers the most favourably priced products in comparison to the majority of imported brands, like Haribo, thanks to local manufacturing and less impact from currency devaluation. Further, the domestic player boasts a wide product ... Read More
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Greece Sweet Biscuits, Snack Bars and Fruit Snacks
... prices. Indeed, some products in the category have almost doubled in price in the last year, rendering them more of a luxury purchase. However, certain offerings have steadily gained favour among consumers, capitalising on a ... Read More
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Ukraine Gum
... Dirol (Mondelez) in supermarkets and convenience stores. This is keeping their famous brands at affordable prices and helping to boost impulse purchases of chewing gum, which is usually located by tills. Euromonitor International's Gum in ... Read More
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Greece Chocolate Confectionery
... price rises, as input costs spiral to an all-time high. Cacao prices, for example, surged at the beginning of the year, thanks to unfavourable weather conditions in West Africa, home to a significant proportion of ... Read More
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Baby Food Packaging in the Netherlands
... Glass jars and stand-up pouches remained the leading pack types within the category in 2023, accounting for similar shares of packaging volumes. Glass benefits from being an inert material, and thus does not interact with ... Read More
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Dairy Packaging in the Netherlands
... volumes remained above the 2019 level. Thin wall plastic containers remained the pack type with the highest packaging volumes in butter and spreads, cheese, and yoghurt in dairy packaging. This pack type is highly durable ... Read More
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Dairy Packaging in Switzerland
... remained above the pre-pandemic level. This same pattern was also seen by butter and spreads. Flexible aluminium/paper remained by far the preferred pack type for butter and spreads in 2023. It also saw a decline ... Read More
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Confectionery Packaging in the Netherlands
... resulted in an increase in value sales of chocolate confectionery in 2023, the rise in the cost of living influenced the purchasing habits of consumers, who opted to purchase more expensive products such as boxed ... Read More
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Baby Food Packaging in Switzerland
... due to their lightweight nature, which enhances portability, facilitating easy transportation and storage for busy parents on-the-go. Flexible aluminium/paper offers excellent barrier properties, ensuring the preservation of the food’s freshness and nutritional value, while protecting ... Read More
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Slovakia Savoury Snacks
... seeking price promotions and discounts, notably so in the popular subcategory of potato chips. Indeed, in this context, private labels hold high places in potato chips, with Lidl (Lidl Slovenská Republika vos) in third brand ... Read More
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Slovakia Sweet Biscuits, Snack Bars and Fruit Snacks
... unit price growth. That said, while sweet biscuits is seeing a volume slump, fruit snacks and snack bars are faring better in volume sales thanks to aligning with rising health and wellness trends. Consumers are ... Read More
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Ukraine Sweet Biscuits, Snack Bars and Fruit Snacks
... 2022, mostly driven by imported goods, as its local factory is located close to the Russian border in Trostyanets in the Sumy region, open to danger from frequent air attacks. As a result, the player ... Read More
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Slovakia Sugar Confectionery
... consumers welcome price-based promotions and discounts, also helping to support sales of private labels such as Lidl (Lidl Slovenská Republika vos), Tesco (Tesco Stores SR as), and others. However, the big players remain in the ... Read More
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Austria Ice Cream
... new, interesting flavours. In addition, sales are dependent on the weather with the warmer spring and autumn boosting volume sales. In line with the health and wellness and sustainability trend, plant-based ice cream is set ... Read More
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Belgium Savoury Snacks
... household budgets, with purchasing power compromised by the high cost of living. Price sensitivity pushed consumers further towards private label products. The higher cost of eating out in foodservice also pushed consumers towards more drinking ... Read More
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Croatia Chocolate Confectionery
... and inflation in 2023 has had a noticeable impact on Croatian consumers' purchasing power in 2024. As a result, shoppers are demonstrating a heightened interest in price promotions and discounts offered by retailers to capture ... Read More
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Croatia Savoury Snacks
... 2023 due to soaring energy and input costs. Major brands like Intersnack and PepsiCo implemented a strategy of reducing pack sizes while maintaining or increasing unit prices to manage these rising expenses. This trend is ... Read More
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The Czech Republic Sugar Confectionery
... flu. With COVID-19 no longer in place other seasonal viruses such as cold and flu are once again spreading with this being a key driver of demand for medicated confectionery. Unlike other types of sugar ... Read More
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