Report Summary

Foodservice: Global Industry Guideis an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the foodservice 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 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 foodservice industry grew by 4.3% in 2006 to reach a value of $642.9 billion.

In 2011, the global foodservice industry is forecast to have a value of $779.7 billion, an increase of 21.3% since 2006.

The global foodservice industry grew by 1.3% in 2006 to reach a volume of 320.4 billion transactions.

In 2011, the global foodservice industry is forecast to have a volume of 341.7 billion transactions, an increase of 6.7% since 2006.

Cafes and restaurants account for 46.3% of the industry's value.

The Americas region accounts for 39.5% of the global industry's value.

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Definition

Foodservice is defined as the sale of food and drinks for immediate consumption either on the premises from which they were bought, or in designated eating areas shared with other foodservice operators, or in the case of takeaways transactions, freshly prepared food for immediate consumption. Datamonitor's definition excludes sales through vending machines and is restricted to sales in specific foodservice channels (please see channel definitions below).

All market values are given in Operator Buying Prices, that is the amount spent by foodservice operators on the food and drink that they serve and not the amount the consumers spend on food and drinks (Operator Selling Prices - OSPs) in these channels. The difference is the mark up the foodservice operator adds in order to cover their other costs and generate a profit. This therefore values the market in terms of the amount of money for which food and drinks manufacturers are competing.

Market volumes are classed as the total number of visits by individuals to foodservice locations that involve the consumption of either food, or drink, or both. As such, if several people visit one location at once and there is only one bill (e.g. a group dining in a restaurant), the number of transactions is counted as being one for each person in the group. Multiple purchases made during the same visit (e.g. a person buys several drinks bought over a period of time in a bar) are counted as one transaction. The purchase of drink with food in the same location in the same visit is also considered as one transaction, not two.

The market is broken down in to four segments: Cafes & Restaurants, Fastfood, Cost and Other. Cafes & Restaurants includes Cafes, Pubs & Bars, Full Service Restaurants, Hotels and Retail locations; Fastfood includes Quick Service Restaurants, Takeaways, Street Vendors and Leisure Locations (cinemas, theatres etc.); Other includes Nightclubs and sales On-board boats, planes, trains or coaches; the Cost segment is characterised by the fact that a subsidy is paid (either directly or indirectly) to one of the actors involved in the transaction, or where the final consumer pays for the food at its actual cost (as opposed to a price that adds some margin to its basic cost). The cost sector includes the following channels - workplace locations, education locations, hospitals and welfare & services locations.

All currency conversions used in this profile were carried out using constant 2006 average annual exchange rates.

For the purpose of this profile, the Americas consists of Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

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

Europe consists of Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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