Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, specialist knowledge and a comprehensive breakdown of key market data. Our research identifies key strategic themes relevant across the region, while also providing a more granular understanding of the essential trends and data shifts particular to individual countries.
Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, sp...
Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, specialist knowledge and a comprehensive breakdown of key market data. Our research identifies key strategic themes relevant across the region, while also providing a more granular unders...
After seeing dynamic growth in 2020 during the pandemic, total packaging volumes of processed meat and seafood turned to decline in 2021, and volumes continued to see a slight fall in 2022, although remained above the pre-pandemic level. Flexible…
Processed meat and seafood saw dynamic volume growth in Sweden when the pandemic emerged in 2020, as consumers sought to stock up on food that they could store, to avoid the risk of viral transmission. From 2021 onwards, however, as consumers resumed…
Total processed meat and seafood packaging volumes in Switzerland saw a second year of growth in 2023. Chilled processed meat dominated packaging volumes in this category, due to its convenience, and the country’s meat-focused culinary tradition,…
Total processed meat and seafood packaging volumes continued to decline in the Netherlands in 2023, although this was a continued stabilisation process after disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, and volumes remained higher than pre-pandemic, in…
In July 2023, Sainsbury's, one of the UK's largest supermarket chains and also one of the leading players in processed meat and fish, launched a sustainability programme to reduce plastic waste for its chilled processed meat. It replaced plastic…