Datamonitor's Packaged Foods & Meats Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the packaged foods & meats industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global packaged food and meat market generated total revenues of $1,765 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.5% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Bakery and cereal sales proved the most lucrative for the global packaged food and meat market in 2005, generating total revenues of $225 billion, equivalent to 12.8% of the market's overall value.

The performance of the market is forecast to follow a similar pattern, with an anticipated CAGR of 3.6% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market to a value of $2,104 billion by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The packaged foods and meats market consists of the total revenues generated through the sale of bakery and cereal products, canned food, chilled food, confectionery, dairy food, dried food, frozen food, ice cream, meat, fish and poultry, oils and fats, pasta and noodles, ready meals, sauces, dressings and condiments, savory snacks, soup and spreads.

Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, the European market is deemed to consist of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.

The Americas consists of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.