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Meals and Soups Packaging in the United Kingdom

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  • 13 Pages
  • August 2025
  • Region: United Kingdom
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 4606355
In 2024, total packaging retail volumes for meals and soups in the UK rose by 1% to reach 6.3 billion units, driven by growing demand for convenient, nutritious, and plant-based options. The shift towards busier, health-conscious lifestyles led to increased consumption of ready meals and soup, thereby boosting the volume of packaging used.

This Meals and Soups Packaging in United Kingdom report offers insight into key trends and developments driving packaging across the category. The report also examines trends and prospect for various pack types and closures: metal packaging, rigid plastic, glass, liquid cartons, paper-based containers; flexible packaging.

Product coverage: Food Kits, Pizza, Prepared Salads, Ready Meals, Soup.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

Why buy this report?

  • Get a detailed picture of the Meals and Soups Packaging market;
  • Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
  • Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands;
  • Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.

Table of Contents

KEY DATA FINDINGS

2024 DEVELOPMENTS
  • Demand for convenience influences meals and soups packaging in 2024
  • Marked differences between packaging of soup and ready meals in the UK
  • iKrafts drives eco-friendly packaging innovation in meals and soups
PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
  • Balancing convenience, cost, and eco-friendliness in UK meals and soups packaging
  • Flexible, premium, and eco-friendly packs to drive meals and soups packaging trends
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