Confectionery Market Research Reports & Industry Analysis
Confectionery is sold through one of the broadest spectrums of retail channels of any food product. These channels include supermarkets, grocery stores, mass merchandisers, drugstores, convenience stores, gourmet/specialty stores (including chocolate stores, bulk candy stores, specialty food stores, kitchenware stores, and chains owned by companies that both manufacture and retail chocolate), department stores, health and natural food stores, warehouse clubs, bakeries, coffeehouses and cafés, ethnic markets, movie theaters, kiosks and tobacco stores, card and gift shops, toy stores, office supply stores, florists, transportation terminals, mail-order catalogs, online stores on the Internet, and many others, as well as vending machines and street vendors.
Confectionary sales typically peak at holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Halloween, and confections are historically welcome as gifts and popular as self-indulgences. As a result,
MarketResearch.com’s catalog of reports focusing on confectionery also includes research on the burgeoning food gifting industry, which is expected to see healthy gains through 2016 and beyond.
Confectionery Industry Research & Market Reports
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Turkey Chocolate Confectionery
... mood, despite rising unit prices amid a highly inflationary climate. During the COVID-19 crisis, which brought lockdown conditions, consumers spent more time at home. In this light, many consumers looked for indulgence and pampering snacks ... Read More
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Austria Sugar Confectionery
... remained stable in 2024. The demand for sugar confectionery varies from product to product. Those positioned in line with health and wellness trends fared better than others. Health claims including sugar free, reduced sugar, or ... Read More
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Ukraine Sugar Confectionery
... company offers the most favourably priced products in comparison to the majority of imported brands, like Haribo, thanks to local manufacturing and less impact from currency devaluation. Further, the domestic player boasts a wide product ... Read More
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Turkey Sugar Confectionery
... retail volume sales remains seasonal gifting. For example, retail volume sales of boiled sweets, toffees and pastilles, gummies, jellies and chews are strongly boosted by the holiday seasons of Ramadan and Eid, as many Turkish ... Read More
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Ukraine Gum
... Dirol (Mondelez) in supermarkets and convenience stores. This is keeping their famous brands at affordable prices and helping to boost impulse purchases of chewing gum, which is usually located by tills. Euromonitor International's Gum in ... Read More
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Greece Chocolate Confectionery
... price rises, as input costs spiral to an all-time high. Cacao prices, for example, surged at the beginning of the year, thanks to unfavourable weather conditions in West Africa, home to a significant proportion of ... Read More
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Slovakia Sugar Confectionery
... consumers welcome price-based promotions and discounts, also helping to support sales of private labels such as Lidl (Lidl Slovenská Republika vos), Tesco (Tesco Stores SR as), and others. However, the big players remain in the ... Read More
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Croatia Chocolate Confectionery
... and inflation in 2023 has had a noticeable impact on Croatian consumers' purchasing power in 2024. As a result, shoppers are demonstrating a heightened interest in price promotions and discounts offered by retailers to capture ... Read More
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The Czech Republic Sugar Confectionery
... flu. With COVID-19 no longer in place other seasonal viruses such as cold and flu are once again spreading with this being a key driver of demand for medicated confectionery. Unlike other types of sugar ... Read More
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Slovakia Gum
... to the commodity prices of sweeteners, volume is being supported by consumers’ return to their sociable, out-of-home lifestyles in the post-pandemic landscape. This is good news for gum, which benefits from indulgence purchases and visible ... Read More
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Austria Chocolate Confectionery
... of commodities. In particular, the steep increase in cocoa prices forced chocolate confectionery manufacturers to increase average unit prices of their products. The cost of sugar remains high in 2024 putting upward pressure on price. ... Read More
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Belgium Sugar Confectionery
... impulse products are amongst the first on which consumers compromise and cut their spending. With inflation falling in 2024, price stabilisation and the snacking trend is supporting volume sales, with the uptick in on-the-go lifestyles ... Read More
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Croatia Gum
... However, brand loyalty remains a crucial factor in this category, with consumers gravitating towards their preferred brands and flavours. This loyalty does not prevent price comparisons though, as consumers become increasingly cost-conscious. They are actively ... Read More
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Belgium Chocolate Confectionery
... effects of the inflation crisis still lingering Belgians proved more conservative with their spending and pressure on purchasing power was still strong in 2024. As a result, volume sales of chocolate confectionery suffered in 2024 ... Read More
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Finland Chocolate Confectionery
... stagnate during the year, while current value sales will continue to rise. Competition from other snack categories, such as sugar confectionery and ice cream, especially during the summer months, remains a key feature of the ... Read More
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Bulgaria Gum
... product and thus it has been impacted by higher transportation fees. The category is still in the process of recovering from the huge drop in sales seen during the start of the pandemic when consumers ... Read More
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Bulgaria Sugar Confectionery
... which have remained high after rising sharply in 2023. The return of El Niño and the warmer and drier weather in sugar producing countries limited the sugar supply in 2023, and although the supply chain ... Read More
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Taiwan Chocolate Confectionery
... snacking at home is declining. Many consumers have reduced the amount of snacks they eat at home, with many also reducing hoarding and bulk purchasing. Meanwhile, more snack consumption has returned to convenience stores. With ... Read More
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Taiwan Gum
... people began to resume normal social interactions. It was anticipated that this would greatly help gum sales. However, the degree of recovery has not met expectations. One main reason for this is that many consumers ... Read More
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Sugar Confectionery
... translates to a continued decline in consumer interest, as people gravitate towards healthier snack options and shy away from sweets high in sugar and carbohydrates. Bucking the downward trend, medicated confectionery is recording the strongest ... Read More
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Finland Gum
... gum created with the sweetener xylitol, which has been available in Finland since the 1970s when the leading brand, Jenkki, introduced the innovation to the landscape. Xylitol has well-known dental health claims, having been shown ... Read More
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Finland Sugar Confectionery
... major challenges facing sugar confectionery is the prominent health and wellness trend, and particularly, the role of sugar in the development of a wide range of health issues, including obesity and type 2 diabetes, for ... Read More
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Chocolate Confectionery
... place in the snacking landscape. While retail volume growth remains stable, the impact of rising prices in 2024 translates to a significant increase in retail sales price (RSP) value, reaching the upper single-digit range. This ... Read More
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Bulgaria Chocolate Confectionery
... the global jump in cocoa prices started to be felt, with chocolate products becoming more expensive as a result. This has been reflected in stronger growth in current value terms. However, price growth has been ... Read More
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Gum
... volume. Even with rising unit prices caused by inflation, the category only manages to maintain positive growth in RSP value terms. The combination of worsening economic conditions, ongoing domestic political issues, and global crises has ... Read More
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