Report Summary

Canned Food: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the canned food 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

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global canned food market grew by 2.2% in 2006 to reach a value of $50.9 billion.

In 2011, the market is forecast to have a value of $56.7 billion, an increase of 11.3% since 2006.

The market grew by 1.7% in 2006 to reach a volume of 18.1 billion kg.

In 2011, the market is forecast to have a volume of 19.7 billion kg, an increase of 8.6% since 2006.

Sales of canned fish/seafood and meat products account for 42.2% of the market's value.

Europe is the most lucrative regional market, accounting for 47.7% of the market's value.

DelMonte Foods holds a 6.7% share of the market's value.

Supermarkets and hypermarkets form the leading distribution channel, with 69% of the global market by value.

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Market Definition

The canned foods market consists of canned desserts, canned fish/seafood & meat products, canned fruit, canned pasta & noodles, canned ready meals and canned vegetables. The market is valued according to retail selling price (RSP) and includes any applicable taxes. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2006 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the Americas comprises Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

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

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.