Butter and Margarine

Following on from the historic period trajectory, butter continued to outperform cooking fats and margarine and spreads in 2019, with the former continuing to see positive growth whilst cooking fats and margarine and spreads continued to experience ...

Butter sales are expected to recover and achieve slightly positive volume growth in 2019. As a result of a drought in 2018, unit prices for butter remain historically high, after peaking at the end of 2018 and in early 2019. This continues ...

In 2019, butter experienced healthy growth in retail value terms, despite facing a slight decline on the growth recorded in 2018. Butter continued to drive butter and spreads overall, with cooking fats and margarine and spreads lagging behind. ...

Butter witnessed three years of significant price hikes over 2017-2019, which led to falling retail volume sales over the period. However, the declines were mitigated to some extent by higher average incomes over the same period, while retail value ...

Butter remained the only area of butter and spreads to see positive growth in 2019. Growth was supported by a stable butter supply. Having previously experienced recurring butter shortages due to a steady decline in raw milk production resulting from...

Rising raw material costs led to a sharp rise in the category’s average unit price at the end of the review period, which negatively impacted demand. Although prices stabilised somewhat in 2019, the steep rises seen in 2017 and 2018 continued to have...

Butter’s remarkable turnaround from a shunned, unhealthy pariah to an embraced, essential element of cooking, snacking and even beverages has as much to do with the popularity of high-fat items as it does with the new focus on all-natural products. ...

Increasingly hectic lifestyles favour fast meal solutions, which supports the use of margarine and spreads. This trend was supported by repeatedly refining the offer of margarine and spreads in the review period. Sales of margarine and spreads are ...

As a result of ongoing global debate, Kenyan consumers have continued to become more aware of the nutritional benefits of butter. This has led to margarine and spreads continuing to record slower retail volume growth than butter. The country has an ...

Western influence on cooking methods has promoted the use of butter. Butter is more widely used in baking which is becoming a more common practice in urban households. The increased popularity of cooking shows such as MasterChef India has influenced ...

Butter continued to record the strongest growth, in fact the only positive growth, in butter and spreads in 2019. With years of consumer education and communication from the industry, there has been increasing recognition of “good fats” and their ...

Sales of butter and spreads continued to record positive growth in the Dominican Republic in 2019 as demand for these products remained steady. Among all products, butter saw slightly faster growth in 2019 compared to previous years but more ...

Sustainability, regionalism and animal welfare are global trends affecting most industries, including dairy and butter. So-called Heuwiesenmilchbutter (hayfield butter) is not only driving drinking milk and cheese, in butter, particularly organic ...

Butter and spreads continued to record stagnating demand in Singapore in 2019, due to on the one hand, ongoing declining demand for margarine and spreads, which consumers perceive to contain a high amount of preservatives and additives, while on the ...

Restrictions on the usage of hydrogenated oils came into effect in July 2018 in Taiwan thanks to an amendment to the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation. Due to the harmful compounds that can occur when using partially hydrogenated oils during ...

High commodity prices of butter drove category sales in retail value terms in both 2018 and 2019, but this was more the case in 2018 as in 2019 volume growth returned. With the commodity prices having skyrocketed in the overall region during 2017, ...

The growing interest in Western-style cooking involving recipes such as fried steak, and home-baking boosted the growth of butter through retail channels at the end of the review period. Westernised consumers, who accept Western-style foods, are ...

Steep price hikes caused butter retail volume sales to decline sharply in 2018. The category saw retail volume sales recover strongly in 2019 as unit prices stabilised, though demand continued to be hampered by the fact that butter is more expensive ...

Health and wellness concerns continue to affect the demand for and sales performance of butter and spreads in Costa Rica. Middle- and upper-income buyers tend to adopt a more cautious approach in regard to their consumption rate and use these ...

The performance of butter and spreads will continue to be supported by product quality and distribution improvements. Margarine and butter have different price elasticity of demand characteristics and can thus be considered complementary products, ...