Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts

General Mills ranked 11th among the world’s packaged food companies. While losing sales in key categories dairy and breakfast cereals in its primary market, the US, the company grew between 2014 and 2019 and is expected to perform well over the ...

Unilever is the sixth largest packaged food company globally, but its current position might not be retained if it continues to trim its food offering. Within packaged food, the company retains its lead in ice cream, thanks to the growth of global ...

Mars is a global leader in chocolate confectionery, gum and pet food. It operates a large portfolio of world-renowned brands, with a long history and a loyal consumer base. Despite its worldwide presence, over 90% of the company’s sales are generated...

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 ...

Vegan trends are continuing to change the dynamic of food categories as consumers are becoming more knowledgeable and conscious about their sugar, fat and carb intakes. Consequently, this encouraged leading brands to diversify their portfolios to ...

Ice cream and frozen desserts performed quite soundly in 2019, with health and wellness and flavour innovation continuing to be the main drivers of value growth. Prices increased slightly, but this was moderated by consistent promotional activity ...

Since 2016, when Halo Top’s protein-packed low sugar ice cream first took the industry by storm, its dizzying growth has mesmerised observers. Many initially scoffed at the brand, dismissing it as nothing more than a phase, yet its triple- and ...

Demand for impulse ice cream continued to rise in Hong Kong, with single portion dairy ice cream recording the strongest performance in 2019. This trend is being driven by the grab-and-go snacking and miniaturisation trend in the country, aided by an...

Unlike other packaged food categories, ice cream benefitted from the extremely warm temperatures during summer 2018, and was still performing well in 2019. This was the main driver for the overall positive performance in both value and volume terms ...

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 ...

Several categories within overall ice cream and frozen desserts in Serbia recorded double-digit growth rates in 2019. These were the best performer frozen yoghurt as well as frozen desserts and ice cream desserts. These categories, however, grew from...

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 ...