Fresh Food

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a huge impact across packaged and fresh food. Shoppers in many markets have reacted to the possibility of quarantine by stockpiling, foodservice options have been shut down, and eating occasions have ...

Premiumisation is a key consumer trend in Australia, but it’s meaning is changing. Where once price and quality were paramount, consumers are moving to more thoughtful and emotional consumption. Simplification and provenance are also key, with ...

Severe drought and heavy rainfall in some regions of India affected the production of fresh food in 2019 with the market experiencing modest volume sales growth. Essential fresh foods such as tomatoes, pulses, coconuts and sugar and sweeteners saw ...

The overall consumption of fresh food in Italy is boosted by the healthy eating trend spreading among Italian consumers in recent years. Consumers are increasingly focused on leading a healthy lifestyle, and this is reflected on the choice of ...

The health trend continued to gather momentum in the UK in 2019 with consumers increasing their demand for fresh food. Ethical consumerism has gone from being a fad to becoming a feature of the UK market, with an increasing number of consumers ...

The Brazilian fresh food market is large and dynamic, and most is produced locally. Thus, economic and political events impact only consumers’ behaviour, purchasing habits and disposable income, but largely affect producers and their investments in ...

Fresh food continues to stagnate with a slight decline in volume, offset by a slight increase in value. This is mainly because packaged and processed food have gained share at the expense of traditional fresh food. Modern consumers live busy ...

Fresh food sales in volume terms are growing less significantly compared to recent years. However, sales in value terms are rising. This switch is the result of the evolution of consumers’ mindsets and lifestyles. There are now more factors ...

With rising incomes and improvements in living standards, Vietnamese consumers are demanding higher-quality and safe fresh food. Food safety is a big challenge in the industry and players are investing in modern technology for agriculture and farming...

Production of fresh food in Morocco sustained its growth in 2019, supported by Plan Maroc Vert, which the government developed in 2010. The project aims to make agriculture one of the main contributors to Morocco’s economy, by modernising ...

The economic recession, complicated by economic sanctions and import bans, in the early-to-mid-review period led to significant changes in the landscape of fresh food in Russia. Categories like fish and seafood, nuts and fruits suffered strongly from...

Fresh food saw positive growth in 2019, driven by several factors. Firstly, the UAE government supported the growth of the fresh food industry in several ways. The government directed focus on food security initiatives, with heightened concern in ...

Total volume sales of fresh food continued to increase in Mexico in 2019. The country’s inflation rates, which reached a record-high earlier in the review period, continued to cool, allowing more consumers to buy higher-priced products rather than ...

Fresh food in Australia saw another year of positive total volume growth in 2019. Growth continued to be fuelled by the health and wellness trends along with the rise in consumers’ ethical concerns. Across the fresh food categories, as well as in ...

Sales of fresh food showed a slight increase in total volume terms in Germany in 2019, roughly in line with the performance a year earlier. In spite of the high levels of maturity and saturation in the market the stagnation or decline seen in the ...

Fresh food returned to recording positive growth in total volume terms in 2019 after the decline registered a year earlier. The year-earlier performance had been strongly influenced by a major decline in institutional volume sales, with the retail ...

Fresh food continued to register positive sales growth overall in 2019. The whole spectrum of consumers buy into the category, the most affluent segment prioritise a healthy diet, and the lower-end group prefers fresh food because it is cheaper than ...

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Fresh food’s struggles continued in 2019 with the category recording a further decline in total volume terms in 2019. Japan’s population is shrinking, with the birth rate continuing to fall as couples are choosing to have less children, and this is ...

Fresh food saw steady growth overall in total volume terms in 2019, although the performances of individual areas of the industry were mixed. With rising income and an expanding middle class consumers in China are paying increasing attention to the ...