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Coffee in Denmark

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  • 22 Pages
  • December 2025
  • Region: Denmark
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 555611
Overall, coffee in Denmark is projected to see flat growth in retail current value sales over 2025. Although overall retail volume sales are on a downward trajectory, increasing global coffee prices are keeping retail current value sales from falling. Coffee’s retail volume sales are projected to drop at a slightly faster rate than in 2023 and 2024 as consumers cut consumption partly due to increased pricing.

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 or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2030 illustrate how the market is set to change.

Product coverage: Fresh Coffee, Instant Coffee.

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

Why buy this report?

  • Get a detailed picture of the Coffee 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
  • Rising global coffee prices maintain retail value sales
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Shift to higher-quality over volume consumption
  • Instant coffee suffers from internal and external competition
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Higher-quality, lower volume consumption trend to continue
  • New launches to add dynamism to fresh ground coffee pods
  • Coffee players to pay more attention to sustainability
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Merrild Kaffe leads with a strong local and international offer
  • Salling Group invests in its private label offer
CHANNELS
  • Discounters lead with large, value for money assortments
  • Fast growth from a low base for e-commerce as the channel’s coffee offer expands
CATEGORY DATA
  • Table 1 Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 2 Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 3 Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 4 Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 5 Retail Sales of Fresh Ground Coffee Pods by Hard vs Soft: % Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 6 NBO Company Shares of Coffee: % Retail Value 2021-2025
  • Table 7 LBN Brand Shares of Coffee: % Retail Value 2022-2025
  • Table 8 Forecast Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 9 Forecast Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 10 Forecast Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 11 Forecast Retail Sales of Coffee by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMERHOT DRINKS IN DENMARK
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Hot drinks lose appeal among younger generations
KEY DATA FINDINGS
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Demand driven by premium and convenience attributes
  • Economising, environmental concerns and a preference for alternatives hit on-trade demand for hot drinks
  • Push-pull effect of health and wellness in hot drinks
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Growing competition from soft drinks
  • Premiumisation over volume in hot drinks
  • Pricing to influence coffee consumption
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Merrild Kaffe leverages its strength in coffee to lead the industry
  • Urtekram’s offer fits with the health and wellness trend to see fast growth
CHANNELS
  • Discounters benefit from wide and price-conscious hot drinks offers
  • Economic conditions and channel stabilisation slow foodservice volume sales growth
MARKET DATA
  • Table 12 Sales of Hot Drinks by Retail vs Foodservice: % Volume Breakdown 2020-2025
  • Table 13 Sales of Hot Drinks by Retail vs Foodservice: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 14 Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 15 Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 16 Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 17 Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 18 Foodservice Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 19 Foodservice Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 20 Total Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Total Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 21 Total Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Total Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 22 NBO Company Shares of Hot Drinks: % Retail Value 2021-2025
  • Table 23 LBN Brand Shares of Hot Drinks: % Retail Value 2022-2025
  • Table 24 Penetration of Private Label in Hot Drinks by Category: % Retail Value 2020-2025
  • Table 25 Retail Distribution of Hot Drinks by Format: % Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 26 Retail Distribution of Hot Drinks by Format and Category: % Volume 2025
  • Table 27 Forecast Sales of Hot Drinks by Retail vs Foodservice: % Volume Breakdown 2025-2030
  • Table 28 Forecast Sales of Hot Drinks by Retail vs Foodservice: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 29 Forecast Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 30 Forecast Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 31 Forecast Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 32 Forecast Retail Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 33 Forecast Foodservice Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 34 Forecast Foodservice Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 35 Forecast Total Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: Total Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 36 Forecast Total Sales of Hot Drinks by Category: % Total Volume Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
SOURCES
  • Summary 1 Research Sources