Packaging

Despite packaging unit volume sales of sweet spreads as a whole declining in 2022, nut- and seed-based spreads once again outperformed the overall category, with consumers becoming more discerning about what the put in their bodies. An increasing…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in Australia in 2020, packaging unit volume sales of sauces, dips and condiments recorded a clear spike in demand due to lockdowns and other restrictions, such as foodservice closures, which forced consumers to cook…

The falling packaging unit volume sales in processed meat and seafood in 2022 were primarily driven by processed seafood. Although processed seafood had seen a spike in demand in 2020 when the pandemic first arrived in Australia, the size of the…

After seeing only sluggish retail unit volume growth, at best, in the earlier years of the review period, shelf stable fruit and vegetables packaging recorded a spike in demand due to the arrival of the pandemic in 2020, followed by further positive…

Plant-based dairy as a whole saw growth of less than 1% in its packaging unit volumes in 2022 as shrinking disposable incomes and cost-of-living pressures tempered demand for products in this category, which tend to have higher prices than…