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Meals and Soups in France

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  • 25 Pages
  • November 2025
  • Region: France
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 5731891
Meals and soups sees steady growth in value and volume terms in 2025 as prices stabilise. Driven by increasingly busy lifestyles, there remains a strong demand for convenient meal solutions, although consumers are also looking for healthier and more sustainable products, with this informing new product development.

This 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 2020-2025, 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: 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 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
  • Busy lifestyles drive demand for healthy and sustainable options
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Price drops support volume growth but constrain value growth in meals and soups
  • Meal kits and pizza among the big winners in 2025
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Stable outlook for meals and soups with an increasing focus on foreign dishes
  • Plant-based diets and functional offerings set to drive demand and inform innovation
  • Vending machines bring new layer of convenience to meals and soups
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Competition within meals and soups remains fragmented with Sodebo leading
  • Daunat benefits from resurgent interest in prepared sales as other players focus on value
CHANNELS
  • Hypermarkets, supermarkets and discounters dominate sales
  • Convenience is king as France’s economy shows signs of improvement
CATEGORY DATA
  • Table 1 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 2 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 3 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 4 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 5 Sales of Chilled Ready Meals by Ethnicity: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 6 Sales of Frozen Ready Meals by Ethnicity: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 7 Sales of Soup by Leading Flavours: Rankings 2020-2025
  • Table 8 NBO Company Shares of Meals and Soups: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 9 LBN Brand Shares of Meals and Soups: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 10 Distribution of Meals and Soups by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 11 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 12 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 13 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 14 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMERCOOKING INGREDIENTS AND MEALS IN FRANCE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Ongoing price-sensitivity despite lower inflation
KEY DATA FINDINGS
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Cooking ingredients and meals sees steady growth as prices stabilise
  • France updates its Nutri-Score system to help consumers make healthier choices
  • “Made in France” remains a key selling point
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Modest growth outlook with consumers likely to remain cautious in their spending
  • Sustainability becoming a growing concern
  • Manufacturers will need to respond to the growing demand for healthier options
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Unilever leads but many consumers prefer local French brands or private label
  • Menguy’s benefits from increasing popularity of peanut butter while HelloFresh targets higher value customers
CHANNELS
  • Hypermarkets lead sales with retailers benefiting from the focus on home cooking
  • Convenience stores sees dynamic growth while e-commerce gains share
MARKET DATA
  • Table 15 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 16 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 17 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 18 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 19 NBO Company Shares of Cooking Ingredients and Meals: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 20 LBN Brand Shares of Cooking Ingredients and Meals: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 21 Penetration of Private Label by Category: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 22 Distribution of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 23 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 24 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 25 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 26 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
SOURCES
  • Summary 1 Research Sources