Understand the key trends shaping demand and future opportunities...
Understand the key trends shaping demand and future opportunities across industries in Eastern Europe, with the latest regional and country-level analysis and market statistics.
In 2023, dairy producers in Poland employed innovative marketing campaigns to stimulate the sales of drinking milk products. The Dairy Cooperative Piatnica (OSM Piatnica) launched a notable campaign promoting its fresh milk, distinguished by its…
Cow's milk is facing stagnating sales in 2023 as demand continues to wane due to the price increases of 2022. Rising energy costs together with logistics and ingredient costs have forced manufacturers to raise average prices. The purchase price of…
In November 2022, the government placed a price cap on selected basic food, and the regulation was extended until 30 June 2023. The 2.8% fat content UHT cow milk was among the food with frozen prices, leading to minimal single-digit growth for the…
Drinking milk is expected to register moderate volume growth in 2023. Drinking milk is a staple and this supports volume sales. In addition, the recent influx of migrants from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus as a result of the war in Ukraine, also boosts…
Drinking milk is expected to register healthy current value and volume growth in 2023. A significant number of newly-arrived migrants from Ukraine, escaping from the war, is also expected to increase volume sales. However, inflation is expected to…
The inflationary climate in Bosnia and Herzegovina intensified in 2023, resulting in strong double-digit current value growth of drinking milk products. The higher price of locally and regionally sourced raw milk has pushed up average unit prices in…
The price of raw milk in the Czech Republic increased in 2022, with the war in Ukraine impacting prices in the supply chain. However, the price of raw milk began to decline at the beginning of 2023, with a higher level of cattle in the country…
In 2023, the Polish dairy industry experienced a significant downturn as milk prices steadily declined since January. Dairy corporations reduced purchase prices by an excess of 30-40 grosz per litre, a trend that would persist for most of the year.…
A sharp rise in price inflation as a result of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine led to higher costs in energy, logistics, animal feed and key food ingredients in 2022, which translated into significant price increases for dairy and alternatives.…
With inflation at over 25% in the first quarter of 2023, Hungary experienced the 10th-highest food-related price increase in the world. The high unit price in dairy products and alternatives was bolstered by the international price increase of raw…