Processed Meat and Seafood

Kraft Heinz materialized in July 2015 following the merger of Heinz and Kraft, forming the world’s fifth largest packaged food company from two household names. Kraft Heinz’s portfolio overwhelmingly contains established brands within two mature ...

In line with Nestlé’s key message, “Nestlé. Enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future”, its growth strategy for the last few years has been centred on its aim to reposition itself to become the world’s leading wellness and ...

Unilever is the sixth largest packaged food company globally, but its current position may not be retained if it continues to trim its food offering to focus on beauty and personal care. Within food, the company retains its title as the leading ice ...

During the review period, there was a noticeable increase in the number of consumers seeking to avoid or reduce their consumption of meat, for various reasons. In response, the companies present in the category have started to launch vegetarian and ...

Since Chinese people have a long tradition of eating fresh seafood, processed seafood has naturally been a small, neglected category where few innovations happen. With regard to shelf-stable processed seafood, Chinese customers will occasionally buy ...

Strong new product development activity continued to drive value growth within processed meat and seafood in 2018, with value growth consistent with what was observed in 2017, but up on the review period value CAGR. Increasingly, convenience is ...

High meat content is an important factor in the decision-making process in processed meat for Slovaks when selecting a brand. Consumers will increasingly look for high-quality meat products as the economic situation of local households continues to ...

As consumers look for ease and convenience, sales of smaller products are rising significantly. Pre-diced options in processed meat and seafood are popular as they add an element of ease when cooking. Correspondingly, in line with health and wellness...

Under the popular HMR (home meal replacement) trend in South Korea, convenient processed meat and seafood requiring only heating in a microwave drives healthy growth of processed meat and seafood overall. For example, frozen processed red meat was ...

The growth in demand for processed meat and seafood is expected to remain healthy in both volume terms and value terms at constant 2018 prices in the forecast period. Whilst value growth will mainly be driven by rising unit prices, retail volume ...

Both in processed meat and in processed seafood, the frozen format outperformed the shelf stable and chilled formats in 2017 and 2018, and stronger development is expected over the forecast period as well. This positive development is the result of ...

Japan, one of the world’s largest consumers of seafood, has been lagging behind Europe and the US in awareness of seafood sustainability, but changes have been gradually taking place in advance of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A ...

Processed meat in Belarus faces marginal volume growth, with per capita consumption also growing slightly in 2018. The price of processed meat is rising below the rate of inflation thanks to government price regulation and strong competition from ...

Improving economic performance in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the end of the review period helped boost performance in processed meat and seafood, setting a solid trend for future growth. Consumption of meat and seafood in Bosnia-Herzegovina is highly ...

Meat is the biggest category in value terms within processed meat and seafood, and this is despite unprocessed meat not being included in the figures; however, the category did receive some knockbacks over the review period. As cheaper imports have ...

Processed meat and seafood is expected to see a positive performance during the forecast period. As lifestyles are becoming busier, demand is expected to rise. Consumption patterns will also become more regular rather than occasional. The growing ...

The processed meat industry in Poland consists of almost 90% pork, making the spread of African swine fever across Europe extremely dangerous for the local market. The first outbreaks were spotted in 2014; however, since then the number of outbreaks ...

The supermarkets and hypermarkets channels together accounted for the majority of retail value sales and are expected to remain dominant over the forecast period. The availability of a wide offer of processed meat products in hygienic storage ...

Bolivia historically had strong production of red meat and poultry, mostly to satisfy domestic demand, and exports were minimal. Most domestic production was from small companies with no economic support to diversify their offer. However, the most ...

Local brands are expected to keep growing due to the aggressive in-store promotions that they carry out. These are usually conducted by a cook who is knowledgeable on the product and demonstrates how to cook and season or pair the product. Consumers ...