Ready Meals

Kraft Heinz ranked fourth among the world’s packaged food leaders in 2020. The company is focusing on restructuring strategy with a streamlined portfolio. Efforts are focusing on strong mature brands and dynamic performers, and six umbrella platforms...

Nestlé SA is the leading company in packaged food, but with a decreasing share of the market. To maintain its first position, the company is focusing on high-growth categories and countries. The purchase of the recipe box supplier Freshly in the US ...

General Mills moved up in rank among the world’s packaged foods companies in 2020, from 11th to 10th. The company gained global share in one of its key categories, breakfast cereals, with its brand Cheerios. In the US, its primary market, despite ...

This report aims to provide an overview of PepsiCo Inc in the packaged food universe, and how the Coronavirus pandemic will impact snacking now and in the future. ...

Unilever is the sixth largest packaged food company globally. The company continues to maintain its lead in ice cream, thanks to increased in-home consumption of its leading global brands, with strong growth coming from emerging markets such as ...

Ready meals is expected to record an uplift in value growth in 2020, with a prediction of 11% compared to 2019 recorded growth of 5%. This positive result will be due to the outbreak of COVID-19, with ready meals sales rising as an increase in home ...

Danone ranked fifth among the world’s packaged food leaders in 2020. Danone has acquired a leading position in baby food across the globe and continues to grow by developing more premium formula products. In dairy, the company has redesigned its ...

The impact of COVID-19 is expected to be minimal for ready meals. On the one hand, many were unable to access consumer foodservice as a result of lockdowns, while others opted to avoid consumer foodservice outlets due to concerns over catching the ...

As a result of the strict COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the demand for ready meals in Costa Rica was boosted in the first half of 2020 as consumers spent more time at home and had a greater number of meals to prepare. Rising health consciousness ...

Whereas COVID-19 is expected to benefit packaged food in general, this is not true for ready meals. Ready meals has experienced a decline in retail volume for the past few years and in 2020, the volume decline is expected to be larger again. ...

Frozen ready meals will continue to show impressive growth in 2020, fuelled this year by the stockpiling of packets of dumplings (vareniki) and ravioli (pelmeni) during the lockdown period. Frozen ready meals have been well established since Soviet ...

Dinner mixes saw dynamic throughout the review period driven by leading players such as HelloFresh. The lockdown measures imposed to control the spread of COVID-19 spurred further growth in the category, with access to foodservice disrupted and ...

While quarantined at home for parts of the year, consumers generally preferred to cook for themselves rather than purchase ready meals. This will result in a drop in retail volume sales in 2020. A significant increase in the average unit price will ...

In 2020, ready meals is anticipated to post slightly slower current value growth than was seen last year (although still double-digit), while retail volume growth is expected to increase slightly. Chilled ready meals and frozen pizza are set to post ...

Demand for ready meals is expected to increase in 2020, as consumers are eating more meals at home during the COVID-19 crisis as a result of lockdown and a reticence to return to foodservice outlets even when they have reopened. Despite an increase ...

Ready meals is anticipated to see a higher growth rate in retail volume and current value terms in 2020 compared to the previous year. With consumers working from home during quarantine and foodservice outlets closed, ready meals was given a boost ...

COVID-19 will have a positive overall impact on ready meals in 2020. The closure of foodservice outlets for large portions of the year was to the benefit of ready meals, which served as a convenient alternative to eating out. Home seclusion did boost...

The COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused sales of frozen pizzas to rise, particularly in the first half of 2020, as more consumers spend time at home and seek out accessible indulgences. With the foodservice industry closed during the lockdown ...

Ready meals in Nigeria remains a relatively niche category with very small sales, as storing the products at frozen or chilled temperatures is hampered due to poor electricity supply, thereby limiting both consumer demand and the ability of retailers...

Ready meals is anticipated to perform well in response to the pandemic with current value and volume sales rising notably. However, average unit price has increased compared to the previous year, which will be the main factor to encourage current ...