Processed Fruit and Vegetables

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 ...

Kraft Heinz remains fifth globally in packaged food. The company is focusing on restructuring strategies and revamping existing brands in multiple categories to boost its sales. It has put efforts into diverse aspects leading to confusion around ...

Players saw the immense potential of bringing more processed fruit and vegetable types into Hong Kong dishes, ranging from budget ones such as sweet and sour meat and fruit salads in cha chaan tengs (ie affordable Hong Kong-style cafés), all-day ...

Movement across the processed fruit and vegetables categories is being influenced by the demand for more natural and healthy options in food and beverages. Consequently, this is having a negative impact on the rate at which volume and value is ...

The perception of frozen processed fruit and vegetables is gradually changing as consumers have started gaining appreciation of the fact that they have the same amount of nutrients as fresh food and can be stored for longer without ...

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 ...

Practicality, convenience and health and wellness trends are boosting the demand in Brazil for processed fruit and vegetables, notably frozen versions. Such products have an extended shelf life compared to fresh versions, which is an advantage, ...

Demand for convenience continued to support stable growth of processed fruit and vegetables in Portugal in 2019. The long shelf life and ready prepared character of frozen and shelf stable products means that they are well-placed to serve consumers ...

Processed fruit and vegetables continued to experience slow volume and value growth in 2019. Interestingly, frozen processed potatoes remained the standout category. The wealth of this category can be attributed to promotional markdowns by major ...

Frozen processed potatoes continue to be a popular snack, due to offering a wide range of different formats including wedges, potato smiles, fries and potato rolls. The introduction of new flavours and formats continues to increase the popularity of ...

Russian consumers are becoming increasingly adventurous in their cooking driven by TV cooking shows and social media, and this is being reflected in the growing diversity of options in processed fruit and vegetables. The appearance of less ...

Consumers’ demand for healthy and convenient products to integrate into their everyday diets is expected to remain a major driver for sales of processed fruit and vegetables. Many products are seeking to tap into this demand by offering variants ...

Consumers in Spain continue to prefer fresh options when it comes to potatoes as they perceive them to be healthier. As a result, retail volume sales of frozen processed potatoes saw further slight decline in 2019, with only the convenience of the ...

Processed fruit and vegetables continued to record strong retail volume and current value growth in 2019. This is mainly because such products are used to make salads, as well as smoothies. In Morocco, having a salad for lunch is part of the ...

Processed fruit and vegetables continues to benefit from the convenience trend in 2019, as busy consumers have less time to spend on food preparation and cooking. However, category growth stagnated in the second half of the review period. Processed ...

Processed fruit and vegetables saw continued growth in 2019, although the increase demonstrated in current value terms was markedly higher than that seen in volume terms. This was due to price rises, and consumers trading up to products perceived as ...

In line with the fall of purchasing power, volume sales of packaged food decreased in 2019, and processed fruit and vegetables was not an exception. Frozen processed food in particular, which is considered more premium, suffered in the financial ...

Consumers still prefer fresh fruit and vegetables over processed alternatives because of their affordability and the negative perceptions of processed variants. Except for shelf stable beans, processed fruit and vegetables carry higher unit prices ...

Processed fruit and vegetables saw a second year of both current value and volume growth in the UK in 2019. Frozen processed fruit and vegetables saw stronger growth than shelf stable fruit and vegetables. However, within shelf stable fruit and ...