Ready Meals
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Categories
- Packaged Food
- Baby Food
- Baked Goods
- Biscuits and Snack Bars
- Breakfast Cereals
- Butter and Margarine
- Cheese
- Chocolate Confectionery
- Confectionery
- Dairy
- Drinking Milk Products
- Edible Oils
- Gum
- Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts
- Meal Replacement
- Other Dairy
- Processed Fruit and Vegetables
- Processed Meat and Seafood
- Ready Meals
- Rice Pasta and Noodles
- Sauces, Dressings, and Condiments
- Snack Bars
- Soup
- Spreads
- Sugar Confectionery
- Sweet and Savoury Snacks
- Yoghurt and Sour Milk Drinks
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Ready Meals in Australia
Dec 2018
The growth of plant-based alternatives has encouraged the proliferation of new product development across many packaged food categories. In ready meals, this has created an occasion for brands to actively engage with health and convenience trends. ...
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Ready Meals in Portugal
Dec 2018
Changing lifestyles, particularly in urban areas, are supporting the growth of ready meals. With busy lives and the need for a better work-life balance, many consumers are resorting to buying ready meals as a convenient meal solution. In addition, ...
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Ready Meals in India
Nov 2018
Despite the country’s large population, ready meals is still a small category in India as compared to more developed economies or even China and other South East Asian nations. This is partly due to a strong preference for fresh food among Indian ...
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Ready Meals in Norway
Nov 2018
The health and wellness trend continued to influence packaged food throughout the review period. Despite this, frozen pizza has continued to display strong sales growth in both value and volume terms thanks to its convenience, large number of new ...
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Ready Meals in Greece
Nov 2018
Despite fierce competition from fresh vegetables, prepared salads witnessed significant growth in 2018 and is expected to be the most dynamic category in ready meals over the forecast period. The penetration of this relatively new category in Greece ...
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Ready Meals in the United Arab Emirates
Nov 2018
Prepared salads was the most dynamic category within ready meals in 2018. Increasingly busy lifestyles led consumers to purchase prepared salads as a more convenient option than purchasing individual ingredients and preparing a salad for themselves ...
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Ready Meals in Hungary
Nov 2018
2018 was a successful year for ready meals as it was among the most dynamic packaged food categories in value sales terms. For some years now, the category has been benefitting from rising demand for convenience-oriented packaged food products that ...
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Ready Meals in Peru
Nov 2018
Peruvians tend to cook their meals at home on a daily basis, using fresh ingredients that they also purchase every day from traditional small grocery retailers or market stalls. More affluent families purchase weekly from supermarkets or ...
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Ready Meals in the Czech Republic
Nov 2018
With the wellness trend developing further in the country, more Czech households purchased healthier types of ready meals such as chilled ready meals and prepared salads during 2018. Prepared salads experienced the fastest retail volume and value ...
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Ready Meals in Kazakhstan
Nov 2018
In 2018 there was growing demand for ready meals that have healthy product positioning. This trend is particularly noticeable in large towns, where consumers have a higher standard of living and are more aware of and concerned about the negative ...
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Ready Meals in Germany
Nov 2018
Ready meals in Germany continued with positive development in terms of all key indicators (retail value, retail volume and foodservice volume) towards the end of the review period, with a positive outlook for the forecast period as well. The healthy ...
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Ready Meals in France
Nov 2018
Prepared salads is expected to remain the fastest growing category in ready meals over the forecast period, thus continuing the trend seen over 2013-2018. Sales will likely continue to be driven by an increasingly sophisticated offer, as well as the ...
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Ready Meals in the US
Nov 2018
Due to the growing health and wellness trend, the desire to carefully select food and drink to improve overall health, has resulted in Americans increasingly shunning foods high in sugar, artificial ingredients and are heavily processed. This ...
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Ready Meals in Argentina
Nov 2018
Volume sales of ready meals remained flat in 2018. This performance could have been even worse if it had not been for the large number of promotions and discounts offered by the leading chains of supermarkets and hypermarkets, such as Coto, Vea and ...
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Ready Meals in Bulgaria
Nov 2018
Due to the increasingly hectic pace of modern life in Sofia and other Bulgarian cities, many of the country’s urban consumers have less time than ever before to prepare their own meals from scratch. Although this trend is most apparent among young ...
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Ready Meals in Colombia
Nov 2018
Chilled and frozen pizza, led by the Zenú brand, have been able to record strong current value growth by adapting to less positive economic conditions and leveraging a more complete network around pizza. Zenú has strengthened its offer of individual ...
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Ready Meals in Vietnam
Nov 2018
Over the review period Vietnam witnessed rapid change in many aspects of the packaged food and foodservice industries. Vietnamese consumers have become more knowledgeable about the types of foods they are eating. This has been largely driven by ...
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Ready Meals in Serbia
Nov 2018
In 2018, ready meals remained in the early stages of development in Serbia. There are several factors supporting this claim. First of all, it is obvious that ready meals grew notably in 2018 and, secondly, many product types remained unavailable in ...
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Ready Meals in Taiwan
Nov 2018
With a wave of food scandals rocking Taiwan over the last five years, consumers are paying more attention to the quality of ingredients used in ready meals. Manufacturers have attempted to signal their value to consumers by building their public ...
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Ready Meals in the United Kingdom
Nov 2018
Ready meals performed well in 2018 and is set to continue to do so over the review period. Meals with healthy associations such as prepared salads are expected to continue growing in contrast to the decline of shelf stable ready meals and dried ready...
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