Italy’s family-owned coffee companies are all affected by consolidation of the global coffee market, but they are adopting very different strategies in response. Massimo Zanetti funds a wave of purchases with an IPO, while Lavazza expands but stays ...

Following years of economic turmoil, consumers in the 11 countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are seeing growing incomes once again. With hot drinks spending levels unusually high in the CIS states, great opportunities exist in ...

The sale of coffee, tea and other hot drinks through retail vending machines is a format in decline. This mini report explores the future prospects of the hot drinks vending channel with a focus on the current problems that must be addressed and also...

Q2 saw only minor revisions to forecast growth projections, with a global upgrade of just USD13 million from the 2021 baseline. JAB Holdings continued to actively build its coffee portfolio, contributing to the increasing consolidation of global ...

The German retailer Tchibo is one of the world’s largest coffee companies, with a leading position in much of Central Europe and an additional presence in Eastern Europe, the CIS and the Middle East. This report looks at coffee operations in its key ...

The hot drinks industry experienced another year of positive growth in 2016, fuelled by added-value coffee and volume growth in emerging regions. While single-serve coffee pod growth slows, high-value instant coffees and premium blends perform well. ...

Following a string of high-profile acquisitions, Lavazza has become the world’s third largest coffee company. The last few years have seen the company enter new categories and ramp up investment in countries such as Australia and the US in order to ...

Fresh ground coffee pods remain not only the fastest growing category of coffee, but of hot drinks in general. However, market maturity, high prices, intellectual property battles and sustainability concerns have started to cause this category to ...

Jacobs Douwe Egbert (JDE), the world’s second largest coffee company, was founded in 2015 and controls such major brands as Jacobs, Tassimo and Senseo. This report looks at the formation of JDE, its hot drinks portfolio and current market positioning...

Informal sales of unpackaged tea were hit hard by demonetisation at the start of November 2016, with this resulting in cash shortages across the country. This benefited sales of tea, resulting in many consumers trading up from unpackaged products to ...

Eastern Europe is home to the highest level of tea consumption in the world, which helped it to reach annual retail sales of USD4 billion in 2016. The region is led by Russia, where black tea was able to ride out years of economic difficulties to ...

Latin America will see more coffee growth than any other region during the forecast period. Consumers throughout the region are embracing new formats of coffee than before, especially an increasing taste for fresh coffee seen in many long-time ...

Despite having the lowest spend per consumer, Asia Pacific is the third largest contributor to the global coffee market. Driven by its large population and rising middle class, factors driving growth in Asia Pacific are different from those in North ...

Hot drinks recorded growth in Kenya in 2016. Rising disposable incomes, positive economic outlook, increased consumer access to affordable products as well as expansion of modern retail outlets helped promote value and volume growth. Furthermore, ...

Hot drinks in Morocco continued to perform well in 2016. In current value growth terms, coffee remained the best performer within hot drinks, followed by tea and other hot drinks. A growing young population as well as ongoing retail expansion helped ...

Flavoured Powder Drinks are a nearly USD9 billion category worldwide, encompassing chocolate drinks, nutrition-added malt drinks, as well as hot drinks in a wide variety of flavours, like strawberry and banana. Shifting demographics mean that these ...

The traditional Uruguayan hot drink, yerba mate, represents 90% of the overall off-trade volume sales of hot drinks. Already mature, volume growth of this drink was marginal in 2016, which had an adverse effect on the overall growth of hot drinks. In...

South Korea’s hot drinks market continued to post declines in retail volume and current value sales in 2016. However, on-trade hot drinks volume sales continued to grow steadily thanks to the strong performances of channels like cafés and specialist ...

Tea continued to dominate hot drinks in Pakistan during 2016, accounting for the majority of overall sales and remaining the most preferred option among consumers, rather than coffee and other hot drinks. The dominance of tea in Pakistan can be ...

A major trend in Taiwanese hot drinks in 2016 was growing demand for less processed products containing more natural ingredients and fewer additives. This trend reflected increased consumer concern about the negative health effects of pesticide ...