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Meals and Soups Packaging in Japan

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  • 9 Pages
  • September 2025
  • Region: Japan
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 4612535
In 2024, total packaging retail volumes of meals and soups packaging declined by 4%, falling to 14 billion units. The downward trend, which began the previous year, was driven by multiple factors, including a shrinking population with fewer households purchasing such products, rising prices of ingredients, energy, and packaging that suppressed demand, and unusually long and hot summers that dampened interest in warm, hearty meals and soups.

This Meals and Soups Packaging in Japan 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
  • Metal packaging shows relative growth in a declining category
  • Strong performance by board tubs due to rising environmental concerns
  • Launch of new packaging format for freeze-dried miso soup in Japan
PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
  • Projected decline in meals and soups packaging volumes over the forecast period
  • Metal food cans and mid-range sizes set to gain traction amid budget-conscious and stockpiling trends
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