Following the outbreak of COVID-19, consumers faced rising uncertainty as to the stability of life in India. Furthermore, consumers saw their movements heavily restricted for much of 2020 due to the implementation of national lockdown measures designed to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country.
Nestlé was pursuing a switch to its Mono Material packs for its Maggi brand to address sustainability concerns in 2021. The company’s Mono Material pack was developed with special grade film scientifically developed for Nestlé.
Thin wall plastic containers are an increasingly popular options for ready meals and are seeing strong growth in India, especially for ready meals containing meat. As a result, thin wall plastic containers continued to record the fastest unit volume growth rate in ready meals packaging in 2021.
India has a huge potential audience for ready meals, with busy millennials and single-person households often keen to find quick and convenient meal solutions. COVID-19 has served to introduce even more consumers to ready meals, with some consumer perceptions around the taste and healthiness of these products changing after consumers become familiar with them.
MTR Foods remained the leading player in ready meals in India in 2021, accounting for more than a third of sales. This can be attributed to the strong presence of its MTR brand, primarily in the south, although it also has a smaller presence in the rest of the country.
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This is the aggregation of canned/preserved, chilled pizza, chilled, dinner mixes, dried, frozen pizza, frozen ready meals and prepared salads. Note: Ready meals are products that have had recipe ''skills'' added to them by the manufacturer, resulting in a high degree of readiness, completion and convenience. Ready meals are generally accepted to be complete meals that require few or no extra ingredients, however, in the case of canned/preserved ready meals, the term also encompasses meal ''centres’; for dinner mixes, the term encompasses part meals. Some ready meals may require cooking; others may simply need reheating, prior to serving.
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