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Meals and Soups in Australia

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  • 21 Pages
  • November 2025
  • Region: Australia
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 5731911
Meals and soups seeing strong and steady growth in 2025 fuelled by the increasing demand for convenient meal solutions. Food kits are proving particularly popular with leading players such as HelloFresh and Marley Spoon offering convenient, fresh and healthy meal solutions.

This Meals and Soups in Australia 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 2020-2024, 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
  • Ready meals boosted by popularity of convenient meal solutions
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Ready meals maintain steady growth as consumers demand convenience food
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Fast-paced modern lifestyles should sustain demand for convenience food
  • Healthy living trend set to shape the growth trajectory of meals and soups
  • Online sales and home deliveries likely to remain a core factor behind the category’s growth
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • HelloFresh remains on top thanks to the ongoing success of food kits
  • Marley Spoon continues to win favour with its premium food kits
CHANNELS
  • Supermarkets remain the cornerstone of grocery retailing in Australia
  • E-commerce playing a key role in the rise of ready meals and food kits
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 AUSTRALIA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Cooking ingredients and meals growth impacted by financial hardship and price rises
KEY DATA FINDINGS
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Slow economic recovery limits growth in cooking ingredients and meals in 2025
  • Healthy eating remains a key focus of demand and new product development
  • Global trends inform new product development
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Sales set for steady growth as consumer spending sees a slow recovery
  • Products that support long-term health will be key to growth
  • Private label faces a fight to retain its share as the economy recovers
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • HelloFresh remains popular with its brand of healthy convenience
  • Marley Spoon finding success in food kits with its premium offering
CHANNELS
  • Consumers continue to place their trust in supermarkets
  • E-commerce on the up as retailers and brands expand online
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
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SOURCES
  • Summary 1 Research Sources