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Ice Cream in the United Arab Emirates

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  • 23 Pages
  • June 2025
  • Region: United Arab Emirates
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 1203234
Ice cream in the United Arab Emirates is projected to see strong single-digit retail current value sales growth over 2025, only slightly slower than in 2024. While ice cream in the United Arab Emirates has traditionally been positioned as a seasonal refreshment to combat the heat, marketing strategies continue to evolve to present it as an all-year-round indulgence.

The Ice Cream in United Arab Emirates report offers in-depth knowledge of the market at a national level, providing local insight and understanding unavailable elsewhere. In addition to the latest retail sales data 2020-2024, it identifies the leading companies, brands and retail outlets, and assesses the key trends and demographic shifts behind consumer demand and sales growth. How key trends such as health and wellness, sustainability and recovery from the pandemic are currently shaping the market along with prospects for the next five years, clearly indicating how the market is expected to change.

Product coverage: Frozen Yoghurt, Impulse Ice Cream, Plant-based Ice Cream, Take-Home Ice Cream, Unpackaged Ice Cream.

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

Why buy this report?

  • Get a detailed picture of the Ice Cream 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
2025 DEVELOPMENTS
  • Healthier positioning and indulgence both appear among the key strategies
  • IFFCO invests to remain the clear leader
  • Easy access and convenience sustain small local grocers’ leading position in distribution
PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
  • More consumption occasions to push ice cream sales
  • Logistics improvements to enhance retail e-commerce’s penetration in ice cream
  • New product developments to cater to a growing premium demand in ice cream
CATEGORY DATA
  • Table 1 Sales of Ice Cream by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 2 Sales of Ice Cream by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 3 Sales of Ice Cream by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 4 Sales of Ice Cream by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 5 Sales of Ice Cream by Leading Flavours: Rankings 2020-2025
  • Table 6 Sales of Impulse Ice Cream by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 7 NBO Company Shares of Ice Cream: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 8 LBN Brand Shares of Ice Cream: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 9 NBO Company Shares of Impulse Ice Cream: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 10 LBN Brand Shares of Impulse Ice Cream: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 11 NBO Company Shares of Take-home Ice Cream: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 12 LBN Brand Shares of Take-home Ice Cream: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 13 Distribution of Ice Cream by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 14 Forecast Sales of Ice Cream by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 15 Forecast Sales of Ice Cream by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 16 Forecast Sales of Ice Cream by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 17 Forecast Sales of Ice Cream by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
SNACKS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Snacks in 2025: The big picture
  • Key trends in 2025
  • Competitive landscape
  • Channel developments
  • What next for snacks?
MARKET DATA
  • Table 18 Sales of Snacks by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 19 Sales of Snacks by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 20 Sales of Snacks by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 21 Sales of Snacks by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 22 NBO Company Shares of Snacks: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 23 LBN Brand Shares of Snacks: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 24 Penetration of Private Label by Category: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 25 Distribution of Snacks by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 26 Forecast Sales of Snacks by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 27 Forecast Sales of Snacks by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 28 Forecast Sales of Snacks by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 29 Forecast Sales of Snacks by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
DISCLAIMER
SOURCES
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