Fruit & Vegetables: Global Industry Guide

Fruit & Vegetables: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Fruit & Vegetables: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the fruit & vegetables industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The market generated total revenues of $403.5 billion in 2005, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Market consumption volumes increased to 823.1 million metric tonnes in 2005.

Vegetable sales are more lucrative than fruit sales in the global market.

In many regions, the market is characterized by the considerable buyer power of large supermarket chains.

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Definition

The fruit & vegetables market reflects the sale of all types of fruit and vegetables, regardless of whether they are sold as fresh, canned or frozen produce. Potatoes have been included within the vegetables sector. Market values have been calculated at retail selling price (RSP) and include all applicable taxes. Any currency conversions used to create this report have been calculated at constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

Market volumes show domestic demand for fruit and vegetables. While fruit & vegetables used to produce beverages have been included within the market volumes, they have not been considered when calculating market values. The players shown in the leading companies section of this report are all fruit & vegetable retailers.

For the purposes of this report Europe is deemed to consist of France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands and Spain.

Asia-Pacific comprises China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand.

The Americas are comprised of the US and Canada.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Fruit & Vegetables: Global Industry Guide