• Average dairy weight per unit wanes due to single-serve formats and reducing eco tax.
  • Pouches and progression of transparent PET in drinking yogurt and fresh milk bottles and thin-wall containers in yogurt and chilled desserts contribute to this lightening.
  • The home cooking trend and need for more convenient formats enable volume sales of sauces, dressings and condiments packaging to grow
  • Transparency is the main buzzword in 2016, in the guise of transparent plastic dispensing closures, transparent peel-off foil and the progressive replacement of opaque HDPE bottles with PET bottles. Many mainstream innovations in sauces, dressings, and condiments are packaged in glass jars and glass bottles, which underlines the resilience of glass in the category
  • In spite persisting distrust and health warnings about farmed salmon or the carcinogenicity of red meat and processed meat, sales in the category recover in 2016
  • Winners in 2016 are PET-based thin wall plastic containers and blister and strip packs and alternatives to declining metal cans, primarily glass jars for foie gras and premium terrines  
  • Sharing formats perform a bit better than single-portion, due to the ongoing cocooning attitude, a trend which boosts volume sales of plastic stand-up pouches and other rigid containers in chocolate confectionery.
  • Due to the mature demand for, and non-modern image of, most products in the category, total primary retail/off-trade product volume stagnates in 2016
  • Aluminum/plastic pouches of fruit purées remain the most dynamic packages in volume terms
  • Appreciable increases stem from the recovery of baby food from 2015 thanks to reviving consumer confidence and notable success of more convenient pack types
  • Plastic and aluminum/plastic pouches see astonishing breakthrough with unit volume growth of 80% and 14% respectively in 2016

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