Dairy Products and Alternatives

In the upcoming years, consumers and businesses face an array of challenges, with income inequality, mass migration and rising uncertainty about another crisis being among the major ones. Nevertheless, within this lie untapped opportunities. This…

As we move into a more atomised world of diverging lifestyle patterns, fragmenting use occasions and blurring categories, consumers are increasingly primed to focus on the desired outcome or intention of their consumption, with nuance and…

The consumer packaging value chain is challenged by raw material prices and high operating costs. Brands can employ pack innovation strategies, to reduce the impact of price rises and preserve consumer affordability, ranging from adopting…

This half-year review of Euromonitor International’s Cooking Ingredients and Meals data provides analysis of the biannual update to Euromonitor’s Forecast Model (FM), alongside the quarterly update to the Macro Model, offering insight into the most…

The lines between away-from-home and at-home consumption continue to blur, as eating occasions shift to the home, yet meal options widen from both retail and foodservice. On-the-go lifestyles switch to sedentary, but small pack sizes and impulse…

Cell-cultured meat’s journey towards our plates took a leap forward at the end of 2020, when Singapore became the first country worldwide to allow its sale. The likelihood of further markets joining suit has intensified since then, as has the…

The Algerian economy is witnessing stubbornly high inflation, which is eroding the purchasing power of lower-and-middle income consumer groups and curbing overall expenditure on dairy products and alternatives. Retail unit prices across dairy…

In 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic has come to a close. However, the industry faces other challenges such as inflation due to rapidly increasing oil and fuel prices. However, sales continue to benefit from population growth, urbanisation, and government…

In 2023, retail volume sales of dairy products and alternatives is expected to decline in most categories. The poor performance is the consequence of high sales levels reached in 2020, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and home seclusion, with many…

After the pandemic resulted in declining sales in China in both 2020 and 2022, the macroeconomic challenges this country was experiencing meant sales continued falling in 2023. With China being the region’s biggest market, this was impacting the…