Company Profile
Feb 2019
Unilever is the sixth largest packaged food company globally, but its current position may not be retained if it continues to trim its food offering to focus on beauty and personal care. Within food, the company retains its title as the leading ice ...
Strategy Briefing
Jan 2019
The baked goods market in Asia Pacific is mainly driven by the strong performances in China and Japan. Growth is driven by younger generations, mainly millennials, consumers who are more open to adopting Western lifestyles, including regular ...
Strategy Briefing
Jan 2019
After a review period in decline, baked goods in Western Europe may be about to witness a turnaround already active in the UK, with the Nordic countries likely to follow next. Southern Europe’s consumers continues to reduce carbohydrate intake in ...
Country Report
Dec 2018
Unpackaged baked goods have long been recognised as fresher than packaged products and therefore healthier. However, as “short shelf life” becomes the key word in the world of packaged goods, the gap regarding freshness between unpackaged and ...
Country Report
Dec 2018
Value sales growth within baked goods in 2018 was greater than both the value growth observed in 2017, as well as the review period CAGR, and while increasing premiumisation trends helped drive this, increasing price competition in supermarkets ...
Country Report
Dec 2018
Unpackaged baked goods saw slower growth than packaged baked goods in 2018, despite having lower value added tax and thus more competitive prices (10% VAT for fresh bread and pastries, as opposed to 20% VAT for all other types). This is mostly ...
Country Report
Dec 2018
As a result of Australia’s growing aversion to sugar and gluten, free-from alternatives have been an extremely encouraging space for brands to enter and expand into. In early 2018, following the success of its sugar-free doughnuts, Noshu Foods ...
Country Report
Dec 2018
In baked goods overall, artisanal bread, cake and pastries continue to show strong performance. In addition to dessert cafés and unpackaged baked goods distributed at specialist coffee shops, small bakery specialists have expanded rapidly. In ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Artisanal bread is an essential item in Algerians’ food baskets, and this trend is not expected to change over the forecast period, despite changing eating habits and lifestyle patterns. For this reason, the government will continue to subsidise ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Baked goods in Germany continues to be characterised by a very high level of maturity and saturation, which is illustrated by the considerable volume of products purchased and consumed, leading to high per capita consumption of baked goods. ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Baked goods in Japan is expected to register slightly negative retail volume growth over the forecast period due to a negative impact of price hikes as well as less consumption of bread by young people. In 2018, major industry players Yamazaki ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
In 2018, baked goods in Belarus continued to post marginal volume growth. Baked goods are mostly traditional areas, enjoying a high level of per capita consumption and offering limited potential for significant growth. Still, some products enjoy ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
The high maturity of dominant formats in baked goods, primarily bread, was the main reason for the decline in overall volume sales in this area at the end of the review period. Less mature formats like cakes and pastries are still not large enough to...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Just two decades ago, retailers were exclusively supplied by local bakeries that used to deliver fresh white bread to their shops. Since then, the situation has changed in the sense that major retailers started to get prefabricated loaves of frozen ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Baked goods is expected to see a positive performance in the forecast period due to several factors. First, the category is likely to benefit from both the consumer demand for convenience, as well as greater demand for fresh and natural products, ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
After a continuous decline in the retail volume consumption of unpackaged bread in the review period, the decline slowed in 2018, due to the growing popularity of in-store bakeries. Paradoxically, at the forefront of the change were discounters, the ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Packaged baked goods such as bread, cakes and pastries gained sales in recent years. Nevertheless, after 2016, when consumers changed their purchasing habits to optimise their incomes, the trend marginally decelerated. In 2017 and 2018 the category ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
As the prices of flour, sugar and oil are controlled in Bolivia, price volatility at a global level has a limited impact on the unit prices that Bolivian consumers pay for baked goods in grocery retailers. The price of flour is subsidised in Bolivia ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Since the government lifted the tax on bread, maize and wheat in 2017 to ease the pressure of inflation, packaged bread has continued to see growth due to bakers passing the tax relief on to consumers. However, this reduction in costs has not been ...
Country Report
Nov 2018
Despite maturity, baked goods maintained strong growth during 2017-2018 in Costa Rica. The popularity of artisanal baked goods meant unpackaged products continued to dominate retail value sales, based on consumption tradition (taste and texture), ...
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