Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts

The biggest sales driver has been longer and hotter summers, which have extended the peak demand period. Consumers typically opt for convenience stores when making impulse purchases in hotter months. This, combined with higher sales of imported ice ...

Ice cream and frozen desserts saw a very good performance in both retail volume and current value terms in 2019. One of the key reasons for this performance was the clear move by consumers towards luxury brands. Premium brands which saw growth in ...

Ice cream and frozen desserts continued to perform well in both retail volume and current value terms in 2019. Higher volume growth was seen than in the previous year, mainly due to the hotter summer weather than usual in 2018, along with the FIFA ...

Tourism was booming in Greece at the end of the review period. At the same time, weather patterns are changing in ways that are favourable to ice cream consumption, with high temperatures reported for more of the year, prolonging the season for ice ...

In volume terms, take-home ice cream dominated ice cream and frozen desserts in North Macedonia in 2019. Chocolate and vanilla are the most popular flavours, whilst forest fruits, berries (strawberry, raspberry, blueberry), caramel, hazelnut and ...

Ice cream has registered record sales in Japan in recent years, driven primarily by increasing consumption in the cooler winter months (though the category’s strong performance in 2018 was underpinned by unusually high summer temperatures, which led ...

Global vanilla prices rose sharply during the first half of 2018. At the time, however, this did not have a major impact on unit prices for ice cream and frozen desserts in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was partly because demand for such products is ...

Gourmet flavours represent a new trend among brands of ice cream and frozen desserts, induced by premiumisation and consumers’ search for indulgence. Vegan and low-sugar ice cream products are gaining significance. Gourmet variants with IGP certified...

Seasonality continued to have an impact on sales of ice cream in 2019, although this reduced towards the end of the review period with the expansion of modern grocery retailers, which have large refrigerated spaces in which to display ice cream ...

Ice cream and frozen desserts continued to perform well in 2019, with the entry of new brands and the expansion of established ranges helping to sustain robust growth in retail volume and current value sales. Grupo Herdez SAB de CV was particularly ...

Thanks to Vietnam’s stable economic growth and increase in average income, families are becoming more willing to spend on ice cream they can store at home to enjoy on demand. Thus, multi-pack dairy ice cream and bulk ice cream continued to see the ...

The Finns are among the world’s heaviest ice cream consumers, with many purchasing ice cream not only in the summer but throughout the year. However, it must also be said that the cold summer weather can have a particularly negative influence on ...

The tropical weather in Malaysia helps to support sales of ice cream, as consumers seek out sweet and cold treats for relief. Impulse ice cream meets this need, and is widely available at convenience stores and grocery retailers in single serve ...

In 2019, ice cream in Bolivia continued to perform well, recording solid growth in both retail volume and current value terms. The category is benefiting from rising per capita consumption, albeit with this remaining lower than in other countries in ...

Seasonality remains a key challenge for ice cream manufacturers in Norway. In 2018, the country benefited from an extraordinarily long and warm spring and summer, with this substantially driving up both retail volume and value sales. However, 2019 ...

Peruvian consumers are highly price sensitive. The leading player, Nestlé Perú, is extremely aware of this and attracted consumers to its impulse ice cream by offering small portions at the eye-catching price of PEN1.00 in the summer of 2019. This ...

With sales of frozen desserts still negligible, ice cream is expected to continue drawing strong interest and demand from consumers and achieve healthy growth for the category over the forecast period. Manufacturers are likely to continue working on ...

Low-calorie ice cream continues to emerge in Ireland following the disruptive arrival of Halo Top in the country in early 2018. Other brands include Breyers and Ben & Jerry’s Moophoria. These low-calorie brands are now almost always displayed ...

Self-indulgence, product availability and affordable pricing levels continue to drive the performance of ice cream and frozen desserts in Costa Rica. Impulse ice cream proposals continue to gain momentum, benefiting from the boom of artisanal ice ...

Indulgence and impulse remain the main drivers of sales and growth in ice cream. Thus, impulse ice cream, despite carrying higher unit prices than take-home ice cream, is expected to continue to dominate demand in the forecast period. Nonetheless, ...