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Global Briefing

Packaged Food 2011 (Part 3): Finding Success in a Challenging Operating Environment

Dec 2011

Price: US$2,000

About this Report

About this Report

Times are getting bad, again. Elevated prices on global commodities markets have led to renewed fears over food security. This is also making key inputs like cereals, cocoa and sugar more expensive for packaged food manufacturers. Despite higher input costs, retail food prices remain flat to declining, thanks to retailer consolidation and private label encroachment. What can packaged food companies do to protect their margins in this increasingly challenging operating environment?

What this report includes

  • Up-to-the minute analysis of the latest trends in the industry
  • New product development, forecasts and other themes
  • Unique graphics and illustrated case studies
  • Most recent brand and company news
  • New insight into the size and shape of the market

Why buy this report

  • Clear, concise powerpoint format makes it easy to digest
  • Leading industry opinion keeps you abreast of latest news and trends
  • Forward-looking outlook on a category, market or issue affecting the industry
  • Latest five year forecasts assess how the market is predicted to develop
  • Understand the competitive environment, the leading players and brands

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Scope

  • Introduction

Objectives of three-part global briefing

  • Introduction

Learn more about latest developments in the global food industry

  • Introduction

Key findings

  • Introduction

Making Sense of Food Prices

Are food prices going up?

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Global food production not keeping up with population growth

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Commodity speculation mounts on the back of cheap US dollar

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Global cereal prices remain elevated relative to mid-2010

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Soybean prices remain high but are finally starting to come down

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Global sugar prices prove stubbornly high despite dip in H1 2011

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Cocoa prices falling as stability returns to Côte d'Ivoire

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Food inflation an increasing cause for concern in China

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Rising input costs, aspiration drive up average retail prices in Brazil

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Russian packaged food retail prices increasing slightly

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

US packaged food average retail prices also on the rise

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

US chocolate and vegetable oil retail prices rise sharply

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Are average retail food prices going up?

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Packaged food retail price movements by region

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Retail bread prices holding steady across several markets

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Retail chocolate prices mainly see real terms declines worldwide

  • Making Sense of Food Prices

Retail Distribution Landscape

Inexorable consumer shift to modern grocery retail formats

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Modern grocery formats gain share, drive down food retail prices

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Consumers in emerging markets seduced by modern grocery

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Supermarket price wars helping to ease general inflation in the UK

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Is the end of traditional grocery formats nigh?

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Retail price comparisons between traditional and modern channels

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Retail prices in traditional and modern formats in emerging markets

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

What do consumers love more, stores or brands?

  • Retail Distribution Landscape

Competitive Landscape

Where there's retailer consolidation, there's private label

  • Competitive Landscape

Private label packaged food leverages significant cost savings

  • Competitive Landscape

Expansion of modern grocery formats supports private label share

  • Competitive Landscape

Global packaged food market remains extremely fragmented

  • Competitive Landscape

Are greater economies of scale required for brands to compete?

  • Competitive Landscape

Impact of volatile food input costs to packaged food M&A

  • Competitive Landscape

Alternatives to M&A to boost efficiency and offset rising costs

  • Competitive Landscape

Emerging markets can support squeezed manufacturer margins

  • Competitive Landscape

Different levels of market penetration in emerging regions

  • Competitive Landscape

Private label packaged food underperforms in emerging markets

  • Competitive Landscape

Global private label performance by packaged food category

  • Competitive Landscape

Added Value Innovations

Consumers continue to demand added value packaged food

  • Added Value Innovations

Wrigley's 5 gum successfully taps into hip and trendy consumers

  • Added Value Innovations

Cadbury's Dairy Milk adds value with ethical positioning

  • Added Value Innovations

Chobani Greek yoghurt leverages appeal of all natural lifestyle

  • Added Value Innovations

" Snackifying " the Ukrainian packaged food market

  • Added Value Innovations

" Snackifying " food to protect squeezed margins

  • Added Value Innovations

Parle Milk Power biscuits taps health and convenience in India

  • Added Value Innovations

Finding the right added value message for elderly lifestyles

  • Added Value Innovations

Final Conclusions

Global packaged food retail volumes should continue to grow

  • Final Conclusions

Where now for agricultural commodities and food input prices?

  • Final Conclusions

Global grocery retailing outlook: Further consolidation on the cards

  • Final Conclusions

Future retail value gains contingent on adding value

  • Final Conclusions

Attractive economic i ndicators in emerging m arkets

  • Final Conclusions

The East is in the black: Seize the opportunity

  • Final Conclusions

Report Definitions

Report terminology (1)

  • Report Definitions

Report terminology (2)

  • Report Definitions

Product category definitions

  • Report Definitions

Retail distribution definitions

  • Report Definitions

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