Sweet Biscuits, Snack Bars and Fruit Snacks

Kellogg Co is the leading breakfast cereals company globally, but has been struggling with a declining gross profit margin due to its overreliance on North America. It has put a new strategy into place to reduce production costs, review its portfolio...

With competitive challenges and growing government regulations within the snacking category, Mondelez’s global focus is on tapping into the growing calorie-conscious consumer with “well-being snacks”, expansion of cocoa sustainability efforts and ...

Nestlé is the largest packaged food company globally, but that position may not be retained if it continues to rely on sales in mature markets and product categories. Its recent growth strategy has been centred on repositioning itself to become the ...

This report provides an overview of sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in Asia Pacific. In particular, it highlights the effects of healthy living trends on the overall category, and how categories that are perceived to be healthier, such as...

Despite the growing trend towards better-for-you snacking and sugar aversion in snack foods, consumers are still occasionally looking for indulgent flavours and snacks. This is apparent in cookies, given that cookies produced by Coles and Woolworths ...

Cereal bars have long been a staple breakfast and lunchbox item in New Zealand. However, with the increasing concern around reduction of carbohydrates and sugar in food, more consumers are being attracted to protein/energy bars, other snack bars and ...

Long defined by cereal bars, the US snacks bars market has witnessed a marked shift in recent years that reflects shifting dietary priorities from consumers. For a variety of reasons, including mobile lifestyles and growing pursuits of satiety, ...

With snacking consumption habits evolving, this has pushed key players to diversify with the emergence of new products and packaging reformation to drive value sales. Premiumisation has played a strong role in snacking, encouraging consumers to snack...

Sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks continues to record positive retail volume and current value growth in 2019, in line with the respective review period CAGRs. As maturity sets in and consumers become increasingly health-conscious, ...

Plain biscuits was by far the largest category within Serbian sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in 2019. It saw its value share dip slightly over the review period, but that share still accounted for half of overall sweet biscuits, snack ...

Sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks continued to see strong retail current value growth in 2019, although retail volume growth was negligible. The strong difference in the two growth rates was partly attributable to price rises for dried ...

The healthy snacking trend is contributing to volume growth in snack bars and fruit snacks in particular, as consumers shift away from other snacks categories, both savoury and sweet. Both categories are expected to continue to benefit from ...

Sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks continued to decline in retail volume terms in 2019. The category mainly suffered from the desire amongst consumers to limit their sugar intake, with private label products seeing a particularly steep ...

Sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks continued to achieve solid retail volume and current value growth rates in 2019. Cereal bars saw the highest growth, growing from a low base, and as these products are generally perceived as healthier than ...

Sweet biscuits saw an upturn in performance in the final two years of the review period. This in part derived from unusually hot summer weather. While sales of biscuits often go down during hot summers, as consumers turn to products that are lighter ...

Protein/energy bars was the most dynamic performer in sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in retail volume and current value growth terms in 2019, followed by dried fruit and cereal bars. All three categories benefited from the growing demand...

Sweet biscuits remain popular among Italian consumers despite volume sales being jeopardised somewhat by packaged cakes. Sales of sweet biscuits have fully recovered from recession and are seeing positive retail value and volume growth. ...

Sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks again recorded strong retail value growth in 2019, driven by premiumisation as consumer interest in their health and wellness increased, while increasing disposable incomes allowed them to trade up to more ...

Sweet biscuits continued to account for the lion’s share of total sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks current value sales in Mexico in 2019. Sweet biscuits are widely available across the country via multiple distribution channels, and the ...

In 2019, fruit snacks enjoyed the highest (double-digit) value and volume growth in Vietnam, but sweet biscuits saw double-digit growth as well, buttressed by new products in interesting flavours and formats. Responding to the health and wellness ...