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Concentrates in Japan

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  • 35 Pages
  • November 2025
  • Region: Japan
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 221700
Concentrates has seen a polarised performance in 2025 with liquid concentrates benefiting from their value and convenience while powder concentrates continues to face stiff competition from sports drinks. Liquid concentrates have become versatile products suitable for diluting with water or being used as mixers at home and through the on-trade. Despite this, leading brand Calpis is under pressure to reach out to a new demographic due to Japan’s rapidly declining birth rate.

This report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2020-2025), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they legislative, distribution, packaging or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2030 illustrate how the market is set to change.

Product coverage: Liquid Concentrates, Powder Concentrates.

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

Why buy this report?

  • Get a detailed picture of the Concentrates 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 PERFORMANCE
  • Concentrates offers an economical, sustainable and versatile soft drinks option
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Liquid concentrates benefit from the value and convenience they offer
  • Competition from RTD sports drinks a hinderance to the growth of powder concentrates
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • New consumption occasions should help to fuel growth in liquid concentrates
  • Asahi under pressure to adjust to demographic changes
  • Concentrates: a sustainable choice for modern households
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Asahi Soft Drinks retains a strong lead in concentrates with its Calpis brand
  • Ouchi Drink Bar proving to be a big success for Suntory
CHANNELS
  • Asahi looks to feed off the dominant position of supermarkets during “Calpis Day”
  • CJ Japan Cop targets the on-trade channel
  • Concentrates Conversions
  • Summary 1 Concentrates Conversion Factors for Ready-to-Drink (RTD) Format
CATEGORY DATA
  • Table 1 Off-trade Sales of Concentrates (RTD) by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 2 Off-trade Sales of Concentrates (RTD) by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 3 Off-trade Sales of Concentrates by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 4 Off-trade Sales of Concentrates by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 5 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Concentrates (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 6 NBO Company Shares of Off-trade Concentrates: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 7 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Concentrates: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 8 NBO Company Shares of Off-trade Liquid Concentrates (RTD): % Volume 2021-2025
  • Table 9 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Liquid Concentrates (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 10 NBO Company Shares of Off-trade Powder Concentrates (RTD): % Volume 2021-2025
  • Table 11 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Powder Concentrates (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 12 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Concentrates (RTD) by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 13 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Concentrates (RTD) by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 14 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Concentrates by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 15 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Concentrates by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMERSOFT DRINKS IN JAPAN
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Rising prices put pressure on volume sales in 2025
KEY DATA FINDINGS
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Price rises lead to a decline in off-trade volume sales of soft drinks in 2025
  • Functional soft drinks gain prominence
  • Innovation has become faster, riskier, and more culturally embedded
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Shrinking population likely to limit opportunities for volume growth
  • Healthy and natural products likely to attract more interest moving forward
  • Vending evolving as it looks to meet the needs of modern consumers
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Coca-Cola and Suntory continue to invest in product development and innovation
  • Nippon Del Monte finds success with new line of tomato juice
CHANNELS
  • Label-less products gain traction as online sales rise
  • On-trade volume sales continue to recover buoyed by interest in RTD tea
MARKET DATA
  • Table 16 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Channel: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 17 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Channel: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 18 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Channel: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 19 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Channel: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 20 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (as sold) by Category: Volume 2025
  • Table 21 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (as sold) by Category: % Volume 2025
  • Table 22 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: Value 2025
  • Table 23 Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: % Value 2025
  • Table 24 Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 25 Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 26 Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 27 Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 28 Sales of Soft Drinks by Total Fountain On-trade: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 29 Sales of Soft Drinks by Total Fountain On-trade: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 30 NBO Company Shares of Total Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2021-2025
  • Table 31 LBN Brand Shares of Total Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 32 NBO Company Shares of On-trade Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2021-2025
  • Table 33 LBN Brand Shares of On-trade Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 34 NBO Company Shares of Off-trade Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2021-2025
  • Table 35 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Soft Drinks (RTD): % Volume 2022-2025
  • Table 36 NBO Company Shares of Off-trade Soft Drinks: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 37 LBN Brand Shares of Off-trade Soft Drinks: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 38 Penetration of Private Label in Off-trade Soft Drinks (RTD) by Category: % Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 39 Penetration of Private Label in Off-trade Soft Drinks by Category: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 40 Distribution of Off-trade Soft Drinks (as sold) by Format: % Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 41 Distribution of Off-trade Soft Drinks (as sold) by Format and Category: % Volume 2025
  • Table 42 Forecast Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Channel: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 43 Forecast Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Channel: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 44 Forecast Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Channel: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 45 Forecast Off-trade vs On-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Channel: % Value Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 46 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 47 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks (RTD) by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 48 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 49 Forecast Off-trade Sales of Soft Drinks by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 50 Forecast Sales of Soft Drinks by Total Fountain On-trade: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 51 Forecast Sales of Soft Drinks by Total Fountain On-trade: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
APPENDIX
  • Fountain sales in Japan
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
SOURCES
  • Summary 2 Research Sources