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Growth Strategies in Dairy

Published by: Business Insights

Published: Jan. 1, 2001 - 160 Pages


Table of Contents


Executive Summary

  • What's driving the dairy market?
  • Dairy innovation - the next level
  • Successfully milking the market
  • Key innovations in health
  • Key innovations in pleasure
  • Key innovations in presentation

Chapter 1 Dairy market overview

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Manufacturer drivers
  • The need for a more attractive retail proposition
  • Commanding a premium by adding value
  • Exploiting new distribution channels
  • The 3 mega-trends - successfully milking the market
  • The 3 F's - combining format, flavor and food plus
  • Leading areas of innovation - WIN overview
  • Company profiles
  • Danone
  • Actimel - the key to future growth success
  • Galbani - holding back growth?
  • France - Danone's biggest market showing poor growth
  • US dairy - Danone losing out to General Mills
  • The future for Danone
  • Fromageries Bel
  • Closure of St.Felix
  • The future for Fromageries Bel
  • Nestlé
  • Poor growth in Europe - Nestlé re-think strategy
  • Nestlé's strategy in competing for 'share of stomach'
  • Chilled desserts take their lead from popular confectionery
  • Nestlé - future outlook
  • Suiza Foods
  • Product portfolio

Chapter 2 Health

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Health drivers
  • Market response
  • Manufacturer opportunities
  • Combining opportunities to create a multi-dimensional product
  • Health - innovative launches with a health claim
  • Innovations in food plus dairy products
  • Yogurts lead in terms of food plus offerings
  • Food minus claims are important across the dairy market
  • Natural and organic claims are focused on cheese and yogurt
  • The popularity of organic cream is growing
  • Yogurt sustains multiple health claims
  • Combining health claims - is it confusing the consumer?
  • Food plus
  • Dairy functional food market overview
  • Probiotic products
  • The benefits of Lactobacillus acidophilus
  • The merits of bifidobacteria
  • Probitoic products are largely restricted to yogurt offerings
  • Popular probiotic ingredients
  • Vitamin and mineral enriched products
  • Consumers look for vitamin enriched dairy products
  • Inulin has been a key driver in nutraceutical dairy products
  • Stanol esters
  • Results and key lessons
  • Success in the food plus market
  • The key to success is focus
  • Food minus
  • Low fat claims dominate food minus products
  • The selection of reduced fat products stretches across all categories
  • Organic
  • Organic cheese and chilled desserts are finding wide consumer appeal
  • Key growth strategies for the future

Chapter 3 The importance of pleasure

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Consumer drivers of pleasure
  • Dairy -consumers' favorite health food
  • New pleasure launches in dairy
  • Cheese and Yogurt dominate indulgence
  • Innovations in flavor - cheese and cream lead the way
  • Eatertainment - appealing to children
  • Leading flavors
  • Flavored yogurts and desserts
  • Fromage frais has a less developed flavor offering
  • Cheese products driving the market with flavor innovation
  • Meat and fish flavors growing in popularity
  • Fats and spreads join the flavor trail
  • Flavor dynamics
  • Flavor conclusions
  • The desire for indulgence
  • Indulgent chilled desserts
  • Children deserve indulgence too
  • Indulgent cheese appeal
  • Is cream losing its indulgent positioning?
  • Eatertainment - dairy turns its attention to children
  • The key to product success lies in targeting children
  • Key growth strategies for the future

Chapter 4 Innovations in presentation

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Innovation overview - lifestyle packaging
  • Presentation drivers
  • Presentation opportunities
  • Presentation innovation - the categories defined
  • NPD in presentation - winning strategies in dairy
  • Fresh formats are raising the profile of the cheese category
  • Dairy - raising the profile as a convenient snack
  • The importance of packaging in determining consumer appeal
  • Convenience - driving innovation in presentation
  • Changing consumption patterns create need for innovation
  • Portion sizes to suit the occasion
  • Dairy manufacturers - neglecting the family occasion
  • Dairy embraces on-the-go snacking
  • Functional formats - cheese adapts to consumer needs
  • Do you want that cubed, grated or sliced?
  • Packaging innovation - looking beyond the product
  • Dual compartments help raise product profile and appeal
  • Resealable packaging - developing the need for convenience
  • Strategic packaging
  • Key growth strategies for the future

Chapter 5 Industry opinion survey

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Interpreting the graphs
  • Key consumer health concerns
  • Key opportunities for value added health products
  • Key consumer groups for value added health products
  • Importance of low & light and indulgent foods
  • Tools to target children
  • Perceptions of fun by target group
  • Key trends for sweet, savory and combination flavors
  • Key trends for fruit flavors
  • Key trends for popular sweet flavors
  • Food markets driving flavor innovation
  • Conclusions

Chapter 6 Changing consumption occasions

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Three square meals a day - outdated and impractical
  • Snacking - the path to profitability for the dairy industry
  • Competitive threats - the contest for 'share of stomach'
  • Responding to changing consumption - the future?
  • Tailoring the product - who, where and when?
  • The adult breakfast occasion
  • The children's lunchbox occasion
  • Adult snack occasion
  • The adult indulgence occasion
  • New consumption occasions - driven by convenience
  • Debits and credits - the future for consumption
  • The debits and credits model
  • Consumption occasion influences whether or not to indulge
  • Indulgence dominates the dairy market
  • Future outlook for dairy
  • Conclusions
  • Providing the ultimate in convenience
  • INDEX

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Changing consumption occasions - the force behind future dairy innovation

Figure 1.2: The Growth Strategy Model

Figure 1.3: % of new dairy launches, by innovation and category, January 1999 - July 2000

Figure 1.4: The growth strategy matrix

Figure 1.5: The 3 F's - combining format with flavor and food plus

Figure 1.6: % of new dairy launches, by innovation and category, Jan 1999 - July 2000

Figure 1.7: The Nestlé functional food range

Figure 1.8: Branded confectionery chilled desserts from Nestlé

Figure 1.9: Suiza Foods - recent product launches

Figure 2.10: The growth of the 40+ age bracket

Figure 2.11: Defining health

Figure 2.12: The need for multi-dimensional health products

Figure 2.13: Number of dairy products making health claims, Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 2.14: % of dairy products making health claims, (by category)

Figure 2.15: Number of products making multiple health claims, (by category) Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 2.16: A selection of available yogurt products making multiple health claims

Figure 2.17: Lactobacillus acidophilus is a popular additive to yogurts targeted at the health conscious

Figure 2.18: Friendly bifidobacteria are a popular addition to milk drinks and desserts

Figure 2.19: Other dairy categories offering probiotic enhanced products

Figure 2.20: Commonly used probiotic ingredients

Figure 2.21: Vitamin enriched products can be found across a wide variety of dairy categories

Figure 2.22: Inulin is an increasingly popular fat replacer because of its functional properties

Figure 2.23: Cholesterol lowering spreads are rapidly increasing in popularity

Figure 2.24: Benecol SWOT analysis

Figure 2.25: Manufacturers launch low fat chilled desserts to attract the healthy consumer with a sweet tooth

Figure 2.26: A wide variety of low-fat creams are now on the market, appealing to the health conscious consumer in search of a small indulgence

Figure 2.27: Organic dairy market values (US$m), 1995-1999

Figure 2.28: Organic range of chilled desserts and fromage frais

Figure 2.29: A wide variety of organic cheeses are now on the market

Figure 2.30: Key health growth strategies in dairy

Figure 3.31: Total number of new dairy pleasure launches, by type and category, Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 3.32: New dairy pleasure launches, by type and category (%), Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 3.33: Real fruit pieces added to boost flavor sensation

Figure 3.34: Chilled desserts and yogurt flavor launches (%), Jan 1999 - July 2000

Figure 3.35: Cinnamon spices up dairy desserts

Figure 3.36: Nutty alternatives create a new flavor sensation for dairy desserts

Figure 3.37: Fromage frais flavor launches (%), Jan 1999 - July 2000

Figure 3.38: Fromage frais desserts, fruit flavors dominate

Figure 3.39: Cheese flavorings, number of launches, Jan 1999 - July 2000

Figure 3.40: Herbs and fruit are being used to boost cheese appeal

Figure 3.41: Meat, fish and cheese make a perfect combination

Figure 3.42: Fats and spreads flavorings, number of launches, Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 3.43: Flavored fats and spreads

Figure 3.44: Total number of multiple and single flavor launches, by category, Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 3.45: NPD positioning in chilled desserts

Figure 3.46: Adult indulgent chilled desserts with chocolate, alcohol or cappuccino

Figure 3.47: Indulgent chilled desserts with the child in mind

Figure 3.48: Branded indulgent chilled desserts for children

Figure 3.49: NPD positioning in cheese

Figure 3.50: Specialist indulgent cheese products

Figure 3.51: Indulgent cheese snack products for children and adults

Figure 3.52: NPD in cream

Figure 3.53: Low fat and flavored creams dominate recent NPD

Figure 3.54: Dairy products with child appeal - the importance of eatertainment

Figure 3.55: Key pleasure growth strategies in Dairy

Figure 4.56: Key themes in presentation innovation

Figure 4.57: Definitions of convenience, packaging and format

Figure 4.58: Total number of new presentation launches, by type and category, Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 4.59: Proportion of new presentation launches, by type and category (%), Jan 1999-July 2000

Figure 4.60: Convenience - the driving force behind presentation innovation

Figure 4.61: Cheese leads the market in terms of greater pack size variety

Figure 4.62: Yogurts and chilled desserts targeting the family occasion

Figure 4.63: Dairy products targeting the snack market

Figure 4.64: The rapidly expanding range of cubed and grated cheeses

Figure 4.65: Sliced cheese - gaining a slice of the snack and sandwich market

Figure 4.66: Dairy look to raise product profiles with dual compartment products

Figure 4.67: Resealable packaging for cheese

Figure 4.68: Cheese trays- served straight to the table

Figure 4.69: Key presentation growth strategies

Figure 5.70: Key consumer health concerns

Figure 5.71: Key opportunities for value added health products

Figure 5.72: Key consumer groups to value added health products

Figure 5.73: Relative importance of low & light and indulgent foods

Figure 5.74: Tools to target children

Figure 5.75: Perceptions of fun by target group

Figure 5.76: Key trends for sweet, savory and combination flavors

Figure 5.77: Key trends for fruit flavors

Figure 5.78: Key trends for popular sweet flavors

Figure 5.79: Food markets driving flavor innovation

Figure 6.80: Decline of traditional consumption moments

Figure 6.81: Dairy products targeted at the snacking occasion

Figure 6.82: New competitive threats for 'share of stomach'

Figure 6.83: The adult breakfast occasion

Figure 6.84: The children's lunchbox occasion

Figure 6.85: The adult snack occasion

Figure 6.86: The adult indulgence occasion

Figure 6.87: Consumers are driven to be healthy and indulge

Figure 6.88: Characteristics of debits and credits consumption

Figure 6.89: Dairy market sales of low and light and indulgent segments (US$bn), 1995-2000

Figure 6.90: Dairy category sales by segment (US$bn), 1995-2005

Figure 6.91: The next step in dairy convenience

Abstract

Catering to the traditional consumption occasions of breakfast, lunch and dinner will no longer be enough for dairy manufacturers to guarantee success in the increasingly competitive dairy market. As manufacturers cater more and more for the modern consumer, the reliance on new product development will increase as the dairy manufacturers' product portfolio experiences unprecedented change. Growth Strategies in Dairy provides an overview of the market followed by comprehensive analysis of the three trends driving the market: health, pleasure, presentation & packaging. It identifies fast growth opportunities in each product group, illustrated by analysis of over 1200 innovative product launches from Datamonitor's Worldwide Innovations Network and explores the impact that changing consumption occasions are having upon the industry.

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