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Food-to-go
is Here to Stay
22 October 2009
jamie.rice@rts-resource.com
Programme
The importance of trends
The food-to-go market
Key players
Market drivers
Trends within trends
Conclusions
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The importance
of trends
Markets versus Trends
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The market for
food to go
1970’s
used to mean a bag of crisps!
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2010?
plenty of choice!!
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The food we want...
...when we want it!
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Definition
“Food purchased to be eaten out of home”
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Food-to-go
£11.5 billion
Larger than the UK dairy market
7.1% growth rate
Highly profitable
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Food-to-go
Filled Breads
£4.4 billion
Bagged Snacks
Bakery
£2.6 billion £1.7 billion
Source: RTS Resource database & analysis. Provisional data for 2009
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Food-to-go worth £11.5bn
UK: The market for food-to-go, 2009
Volume Value
000 tonnes £m
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Growth
Fruits & salad 13.9%
Bakery 10.9%
Meat & pastry 8.6%
Dairy 7.8%
Filled breads 6.6%
Bagged snacks 5.8%
Countlines 4.7%
Pots & soups 4.6%
FoodFood
to togo
go
7.1%
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Key players
Fruit & Salad
Key Manufacturers
• Own-label dominates
• Key Brands:
Del Monte
Whitworths
Fruit Bowl
Preda
Sun Maid
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Fruit & Salad
New Products
• Whitworths nibl
• Florette Fresh Fruit Medley
• Ella’s kitchen Pack ‘O’ Snacks
• Graze Box
• Natural Balance Foods Infused Raisins
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Filled breads
• Dominated by own label
• Brands include:
Ginsters
Foo go (Greencore)
Cranks
Sutherland
Deli (Greencore)
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Filled & snack breads
New products
• Jam Sandwich
• Prawn Cocktail with watercress salad
• Fish Duo - Tuna & cucumber / Free range egg and salmon
• Chicken Duo - Chicken & roasted red pepper / Curried chicken
• Veg Duo - Free range egg & tomato / Cheese & pickle
• Breakfast club on toasted oatmeal
• Limited edition
• Spicy king prawn with mango on kolonji seed bread
• Roast chicken with lemon & tarragon mayo
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Countlines
New products
• Montesumas
Orange & Geranium
Chilli & Lime
• Marks & Spencer
Dark Chocolate with Chilli
Milk Chocolate with Cardamom
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Bagged Snacks
Key Manufacturers
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Bagged Snacks
New Products
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Cereal Bars & Breakfast Snacks
Key brands
• Dorset Cereals
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Cereal Bars & Breakfast Snacks
New products
• Eat Natural 3 new varieties:
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Biscuits, cake bars & similar
Key Manufacturers
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Biscuits, cake bars & similar
New products
• Mr Kipling Cake Bites
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Meat Snacks & Pastries
• Major brands include:
Ginsters
Pork Farms/Northern Foods
Dickinson & Morris
Kerry Foods
Duchy Originals
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Meat Snacks & Pastries
New products
• Galaxy Probiotic
• Dr Oetker
Limited Edition - Coconut Yogurt
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Pot Snacks & Cup Soups
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Market drivers
Food-to-go drivers
Product type cereal bars, meat sticks, nuts
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The next generation of
products
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Attractiveness & suitability
Suitable products are usually hand-held but based largely on traditional products
and flavours. Attractiveness and suitability factors can include:
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Occasions
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Consumer types
Nearly all consumers are targets at sometime:
• School children
especially with reducing take-up of school lunches
• Working lunchers
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Trends within trends
Food to go is a large and
dynamic market
• The subject of today’s seminar is TRENDS
• So, there are also trends for the future that we think
food-to-go also need to adopt in order to be even
more successful and keep pace with future demand
and expectations .......
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Trends within trends
• The following relevant trends can be combined
successfully with FOOD-TO-GO products:
• nostalgia
• use of spices
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Conclusions
The market has changed
dramatically
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Food-to-go is a dynamic,
growth market
• The FOOD-TO-GO market is large and dynamic -
although there are some poorer performing sectors
within it.
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