Snacks

Consumers are embracing holistic lifestyles, prioritising a nourishing diet that promotes physical and mental wellbeing. As a result, the demand for functional ingredients targeting the gut-brain axis and specific need states like memory, stress and…

As consumers prepare fewer meals overall, while demanding more assistance for the ones they do, spending and brand equity will accrue to those companies providing fresh prepared meals on demand, from delivery aggregators to retailers, restaurant…

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly changed where and how consumers shop. Businesses must analyse this evolution and reshape their selling strategies accordingly. This report delves into these two important aspects of shopping, where and how,…

Celebrations are moving away from foodservice and festivals and back into homes. This creates opportunities for experiential foods in retail. Consumers have more time than before the pandemic, and many have started cooking, creating opportunities in…

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the consumer goods market in Sub-Saharan Africa, with recovery expected to take place over time. Consumers expenditure has been negatively affected, as value seeking consumers shift to essential products. The…

After seeing dynamic pandemic-related growth in 2020 due to home seclusion, minimal changes in value sales were seen in 2021 and 2022, despite restrictions easing. With rising health-consciousness, a move towards snack bars and fruit snacks is being…

Sweet biscuits, snack bars, and fruit snacks is inching back into positive volume growth in Vietnam in 2024, with snack bars as the best performer, followed by fruit snacks and then sweet biscuits. In a cross-category trend, inflationary pressures…

Sweet biscuits, snacks bars and fruit snacks continue to be Uzbekistan’s most popular snack choice and in 2024, it is expected to register both healthy constant value and volume growth. Sweet biscuits continue to dominate sales, though fruit snacks…

Sweet biscuits in Uruguay continued their positive trajectory in 2023, registering healthy growth in retail volume terms for the second consecutive year. This momentum is expected to carry over into 2024. The recovery of real wages has played a…

Mondelez is striving to recoup lost market share within sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in Ukraine in 2024. The player saw a drop in 2022, mostly driven by imported goods, as its local factory is located close to the Russian border in…