Ready Meals in the United Kingdom

Ready Meals in the United Kingdom industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2010-14, and forecast to 2019). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United Kingdom ready meals market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

The ready meals market consists of the retail sale of chilled, dried, canned and frozen ready meals. The market is valued according to retail selling price (RSP) and includes any applicable taxes. Any currency conversions used in the compilation of this report have been calculated using 2014 annual average exchange rates.

The UK ready meals market had total revenues of $4,644.0m in 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2% between 2010 and 2014.

Market consumption volume increased with a CAGR of 1.2% between 2010 and 2014, to reach a total of 521.2 million kg in 2014.

In the UK, the large chilled segment is managing to keep the market in positive growth while the other segments falter and decline.

Scope

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key ready meals market players’ global operations and financial performance

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the United Kingdom economy

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Companies mentioned

2 Sisters Food Group; Baxters Food Group Limited; Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital; Premier Foods plc

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary 2

Market value 2

Market value forecast 2

Market volume 2

Market volume forecast 2

Category segmentation 2

Geography segmentation 2

Market share 2

Market rivalry 2

Market Overview 7

Market definition 7

Market analysis 7

Market Data 8

Market value 8

Market volume 9

Market Segmentation 10

Category segmentation 10

Geography segmentation 12

Market share 13

Market distribution 14

Market Outlook 15

Market value forecast 15

Market volume forecast 16

Five Forces Analysis 17

Summary 17

Buyer power 18

Supplier power 19

New entrants 20

Threat of substitutes 21

Degree of rivalry 22

Leading Companies 23

2 Sisters Food Group 23

Baxters Food Group Limited 24

Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital 25

Premier Foods plc 29

Macroeconomic Indicators 30

Country Data 30

Methodology 32

Industry associations 33

Related MarketLine research 33

Appendix 34

About MarketLine 34

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: United Kingdom ready meals market value: $ million, 2010-14 8

Table 2: United Kingdom ready meals market volume: million kg, 2010-14 9

Table 3: United Kingdom ready meals market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2010-2014 10

Table 4: United Kingdom ready meals market category segmentation: $ million, 2010-2014 10

Table 5: United Kingdom ready meals market geography segmentation: $ million, 2014 12

Table 6: United Kingdom ready meals market share: % share, by value, 2014 13

Table 7: United Kingdom ready meals market distribution: % share, by value, 2014 14

Table 8: United Kingdom ready meals market value forecast: $ million, 2014-19 15

Table 9: United Kingdom ready meals market volume forecast: million kg, 2014-19 16

Table 10: 2 Sisters Food Group: key facts 23

Table 11: Baxters Food Group Limited: key facts 24

Table 12: Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital: key facts 25

Table 13: Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital: key financials ($) 27

Table 14: Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital: key financial ratios 27

Table 15: Premier Foods plc: key facts 29

Table 16: United Kingdom size of population (million), 2010-14 30

Table 17: United Kingdom gdp (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 2010-14 30

Table 18: United Kingdom gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2010-14 30

Table 19: United Kingdom inflation, 2010-14 31

Table 20: United Kingdom consumer price index (absolute), 2010-14 31

Table 21: United Kingdom exchange rate, 2010-14 31

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: United Kingdom ready meals market value: $ million, 2010-14 8

Figure 2: United Kingdom ready meals market volume: million kg, 2010-14 9

Figure 3: United Kingdom ready meals market category segmentation: $ million, 2010-2014 11

Figure 4: United Kingdom ready meals market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2014 12

Figure 5: United Kingdom ready meals market share: % share, by value, 2014 13

Figure 6: United Kingdom ready meals market distribution: % share, by value, 2014 14

Figure 7: United Kingdom ready meals market value forecast: $ million, 2014-19 15

Figure 8: United Kingdom ready meals market volume forecast: million kg, 2014-19 16

Figure 9: Forces driving competition in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 17

Figure 10: Drivers of buyer power in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 18

Figure 11: Drivers of supplier power in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 19

Figure 12: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 20

Figure 13: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 21

Figure 14: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the ready meals market in the United Kingdom, 2014 22

Figure 15: Berkshire Hathaway & 3G Capital: revenues & profitability 28

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