Yoghurt and Sour Milk Drinks

Similar to many dairy categories, the COVID-19 pandemic provided a boost to sales of yoghurt and sour milk products in 2020, with consumers spending more time at home. This was followed by a decline in retail volume terms in 2021 with this pattern…

With the onset of the pandemic there was a change in eating habits. Consumers confined to their homes increasingly shifted away from drinking yoghurt, which is commonly consumed on-the-go, to flavoured yoghurt and plain yoghurt. Flavoured yoghurt…

One of the more noteworthy trends in yoghurt in Ireland during 2022 was the increasing consumer interest in local brands and locally manufactured products. Throughout the year, local brands and Irish-origin companies profited from this shift in…

After seeing growth in retail volume terms in 2020, yoghurt and sour milk products saw a decline in 2021 and is expected to see a decline once again in 2022, following ongoing trends seen across the review period. However, this will be tempered by…

Volume sales of yoghurt and sour milk products are being suppressed in 2022, following spikes in demand during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, when home-seclusion and the closure of foodservice inspired home-cooking and home-baking trends, in…

After posting a decline in retail volume terms in 2020 due to the economic shock of COVID-19 and the home seclusion trend, yoghurt saw sales rebound strongly in 2021 as pandemic-related disruption began to subside. The category is poised to record…

This category saw a decline in volumes in 2020 because most sales of these products are generated by single serve formats that are usually consumed on-the-go, as a snack or used in school lunch boxes – drinking yoghurt is the largest part of the…

The COVID-19 pandemic had several impacts on people during its worst year, 2020. Anxiety related to health unsurprisingly spiked during the year, as consumers watched others experience severe symptoms, some of them even ending up in hospital. Because…

Sour milk products is the best-performing category, thanks to rising consumer awareness of the health benefits of products such as kefir and ariani, as well as the widening product variety and availability, and the fact that such products are local…

Retail volumes of yoghurt declined further in 2022 as consumers continued to return to more normal lifestyles after the long period of home seclusion during the height of the COVID-19 crisis. At the same time, the high inflation rate impacted the…

Yoghurt is a sizeable product area in Morocco. In 2022, it is expected that yoghurt will register positive current value growth, though volume growth will be lower. Rising prices due to factors such as the war in Ukraine, which is pushing up fuel…

Mamee-Double Decker (M) Bhd has suffered significant drop in sales in 2022 as the company exited drinking yoghurt, with only limited stock leftover as the company experienced a decline in sales in 2020 and 2021. The company faced intense competition…

The increasing consumer interest in healthy dairy products, especially those with an immunity boosting positioning, continue to support sales of sour milk products during 2022, although this trend did not benefit sales of yoghurt to the same extent.…

Yoghurt is expected to see a third year of notable retail volume decline in 2022, with a slower current value decline, similar to that seen in 2021. Sales are set to continue to decline for several reasons. First, the penetration of yoghurt has…

Retail volume sales of yoghurt and sour milk products declined throughout the review period, with even the pandemic failing to inspire the stabilisation of demand (let alone a rebound), as it led to consumers spending more time at home and eating…

In terms of retail volume, sour milk products continues to dominate sales in Uzbekistan, having witnessed healthy growth in 2022. Traditional products such as kefir, qatiq and ayran are seen as staple foods in the country, being used in cooking or as…

Yoghurt is expected to record robust growth in current value terms in 2022 with retail volume sales only marginally lower than in 2021 dampened by the continued recovery of foodservice sales. Yogurt witnessed significant product activity in 2021 as…

Yoghurt fares better than other dairy products in 2022 and is expected to register a double-digit value increase and only a slight decline in volume sales. On the other hand, value sales of sour milk products still remain negligible, and instead…

While plain yoghurt is a maturing category flavoured yoghurt is witnessing dynamic growth in 2022. Children’s products such as Danone’s Hüpper are growing in popularity as parents consider these products as healthy snacks. Eker and Danone have both…

Yoghurt is seeing further strong and stable growth in retail volume terms in 2022. Sales of yoghurt continue to benefit not only from the versatility of these products in terms of cooking and snacking, but also their positive perception amongst local…