Opportunities in the Global Bakery and Cereals Sector

The global bakery and cereals sector was valued at $615.5 billion in 2020 and is forecast to record a CAGR of 4.7% during 2020-2025, to reach $774.5 billion in 2025. The Americas represented the largest region in 2020, with a value share of 34.3%, followed by Western Europe with 25.8%. In 2020, bread & rolls, accounting for a share of over 33%, was the largest category in terms of value sales. During the pandemic outbreak, a surge in cooking and baking at home was observed, which is expected to continue in the forecast period, helping the growth of bakery & cereals sector. In addition, increasing purchasing power among global consumers and a shift towards healthier products are predicted to drive the sector until at least 2025. Eastern Europe is forecast to be the fastest-growing region for the bakery & cereals sector, with a value CAGR of 6.18% during 2020-2025, followed by Asia-Pacific with 5.05%. Among the categories, energy bars and cereal bars are set to be the top two fastest-growing over the forecast period.

This report brings together multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the global bakery & cereals sector.

It includes analysis on the following:

• Sector overview: Provides an overview of current sector scenarios in terms of ingredients, manufacturer claims, labeling, and packaging. The analysis also provides a regional overview across five regions-Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, the Americas, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe-highlighting sector size, growth drivers, latest developments, and future challenges for each region.
• Change in consumption: Provides a shift in the consumption of bakery & cereals over 2015-2025 at global and regional levels.
• High-potential countries: Provides risk-reward analysis of the top four high-potential countries in each region based on market assessment, economic development, governance indicators,

sociodemographic factors, and technological infrastructure.

• Country and regional analysis: Provides deep-dive analysis of 10 high-potential countries covering value growth during 2020-2025, key challenges, consumer demographics, and key trends. It also includes regional analysis covering the future outlook for each region.
• Competitive landscape: Provides an overview of leading brands at a global and regional level, besides analyzing the product profile, country-level presence, market share, and growth of private labels in each region.
• Key distribution channels: Provides analysis on the leading distribution channels in the global bakery & cereals sector in 2020. It covers “dollar stores”, variety stores & general merchandise retailers, cash & carries & warehouse clubs, convenience stores, department stores, e-retailers, food & drinks specialists, hypermarkets & supermarkets, on-trade, and others.
• Preferred packaging formats*: The report provides percentage share (in 2020) and growth analysis (during 2020-2025) for various pack materials, pack types, closures, and primary outer types based on volume sales of bakery & cereals.

Scope

• Provides an overview of current industry scenario regarding the future outlook in terms of ingredients, product claims, labeling, and packaging.
• The analysis also covers regional overview across five regions - Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Americas, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe - highlighting industry size, growth drivers, latest developments, and future inhibitors for the regions.

Reasons to Buy

• To have a thorough fact based analysis with information about the global make-up industry across the five regions in value terms and the underlying factors that are driving the sales.
• To gain confidence to make the correct business decisions based on a detailed analysis of the industry and to identify high-potential countries over the next 5 years.
• The analysts have placed a significant emphasis on the mega trends that drive consumer choice and will provide a clear picture about the future opportunities that can be explored across the regions, resulting in revenue expansion.
• To gain competitive intelligence about leading brands in the industry at global and regional level with information about their sector share, business descriptions and product profiles