Dairy Products and Alternatives

Baby food is expected to register double-digit current value growth and much more moderate constant value growth. Kazakhstan has strong trade links with Russia in particular and its war in Ukraine is negatively impacting the Kazak economy and leading…

The declining birth rate during the pandemic has had a significant impact on the baby food industry in Ecuador. With fewer babies being born, there is a smaller target market for baby food manufacturers. The high cost of baby food products has…

Retail volume sales of yoghurt are projected to continue to post robust and good growth over 2023. Inflationary pressure on prices is set to push fast retail current value growth that is double that of the expected retail volume increment. Retail…

Yoghurt has not been spared from the severe price increases that have characterised dairy in the UK. The increasing input costs, with commodities such as fertilisers, energy and animal feed, have slashed profit margins across the supply and…

Although the pandemic is now a distant memory, consumers are still motivated to focus on their health and wellness. The demand for drinking yoghurt products that include a “protein” claim, in addition to advantages such as “probiotics”, and “gut…

Yoghurt and sour milk products continued to record robust growth in retail volume terms in 2023. Sales are almost entirely made up of drinking yoghurt, and Yakult in particular, which benefits from local production. During the pandemic, the brand…

Inflation in the Czech Republic has impacted the results for yoghurt and sour milk products. The increase in prices of raw milk, transportation and energy has caused the prices of final products to rise, which has led to a decline in volume sales –…

Flavoured yogurt, which is the largest category, is seeing declining sales in retail volume terms in 2023. This in turn is leading to a small decrease in sales of yoghurt and sour milk products in 2023. The maturity of the category and generational…

Sour milk products are commonly preferred by lower-income consumers, who are particularly susceptible to price increases. These consumers often opt for such products due to their relatively lower cost compared with other dairy items, making sour milk…

The yoghurt and sour milk products category has shown healthy growth even within the tough economic situation and the slower growth of consumption as a result of the high rate of inflation. The category’s strong performance has mainly been due to its…

Retail volume sales of yoghurt saw fairly modest growth in 2023, continuing the trend of the previous year. Despite manufacturers and retailers continuing to run price promotions, these were not as attractive as in previous years, as they sought to…

In 2023, the Polish yoghurt market was dominated by three main players: Zott Polska, Bakoma, and Danone. Lactalis Polska had substantially bolstered the drinking yoghurt mix segment. Bakoma offered premium yoghurts in several flavours, including…

Yoghurt and sour milk products experience positive volume growth in 2023 despite prevailing economic challenges. The product area bounces back from negative volume growth observed in 2022, attributed to inflationary conditions that affected both…

Chobani has seen success in the Australian market – set to rank first in flavoured yoghurt with a share of just over 9% in 2023. The brand has been operating in the Australian market since 2017, and finally launched in New Zealand in 2022. Being a…

Yoghurt sales saw a deceleration in volume growth during the first half of 2023, primarily attributed to the challenging economic landscape and declining disposable incomes. Amid the global economic recession, consumers exhibited a trend of…

In 2023, yoghurt is expected to continue to recover slowly from the decreases in retail volume sales registered in the early-to-mid review period, including, but not limited to, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Therefore, the market size is…

Yoghurt and sour milk drinks recorded a drop in sales in 2023 as they remained rather expensive in the year following significant price increases in 2022. With economic uncertainty and declining purchasing power in Latvia, consumer demand for these…

The inflationary climate has had a strong impact on yoghurt, not least in pushing retail current value over volume sales. Indeed, the anticipated drop in retail volume sales of by far the main type, flavoured yoghurt, is expected to lead to…

As prices of supervised milk rise, manufacturers of dairy products increase prices for all of their products. Following the September 2022 rise in supervised milk prices, the price of milk was set to rise by 16% in May 2023. However, days before the…

Yoghurt remains the best-performing product within the category in 2023, with a number of local producers entering the arena during the pandemic when the logistics of importing goods became more complex and costly. For example, The Good Gut started…