Market Report, "Ready Meals: Global Industry Guide", published

Nov. 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Datamonitor's Ready Meals: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Ready Meals 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
* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).
* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global ready meals market grew by 4% in 2009 to reach a value of $66,074.9 million.

In 2014, the global ready meals market is forecast to have a value of $79,541.6 million, an increase of 20.4% since 2009.

The global ready meals market grew by 3% in 2009 to reach a volume of 11,471.3 million kilograms.

In 2014, the global ready meals market is forecast to have a volume of 13,254.2 million kilograms, an increase of 15.5% since 2009.

Frozen ready meals is the largest segment of the global ready meals market, accounting for 61.6% of the market's total value.

Europe accounts for 39% of the global ready meals market value.

Nestle S.A. is the leading player in the global ready meals market, generating a 6.5% share of the market's value.

The global ready meals market has the presence of leading players like Nestle, ConAgra Foods, and H.J. Heinz.

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Market Definition

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 2009 annual average exchange rates.

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Partial Table of Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
INTRODUCTION 16
What is this report about? 16
Who is the target reader? 16
Market definition 16
GLOBAL READY MEALS 17
MARKET OVERVIEW 17
MARKET VALUE 18
MARKET VOLUME 19
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 20
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 21
MARKET SHARE 22
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 23
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 29
MARKET FORECASTS 30
READY MEALS IN ASIAPACIFIC 32
MARKET OVERVIEW 32
MARKET VALUE 33
MARKET VOLUME 34
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 35
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 36
MARKET SHARE 37
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 38
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 44
MARKET FORECASTS 45
READY MEALS IN EUROPE 47
MARKET OVERVIEW 47
MARKET VALUE 48
MARKET VOLUME 49
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 50
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 51
MARKET SHARE 52
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 53
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 59
MARKET FORECASTS 60
READY MEALS IN FRANCE 62
MARKET OVERVIEW 62
MARKET VALUE 63
MARKET VOLUME 64
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 65
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 66
MARKET SHARE 67
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 68
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 74
MARKET FORECASTS 75
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 77
READY MEALS IN GERMANY 79
MARKET OVERVIEW 79
MARKET VALUE 80
MARKET VOLUME 81
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 82
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 83
MARKET SHARE 84
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 85
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 91
MARKET FORECASTS 92
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 94
READY MEALS IN JAPAN 96
MARKET OVERVIEW 96
MARKET VALUE 97
MARKET VOLUME 98
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 99
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 100
MARKET SHARE 101
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 102
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 108
MARKET FORECASTS 109
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 111
READY MEALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 113
MARKET OVERVIEW 113
MARKET VALUE 114
MARKET VOLUME 115
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 116
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 117
MARKET SHARE 118
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 119
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 125
MARKET FORECASTS 126
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 129
READY MEALS IN THE UNITED STATES 131
MARKET OVERVIEW 131
MARKET VALUE 132
MARKET VOLUME 133
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 134
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 135
MARKET SHARE 136
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 137
MARKET DISTRIBUTION 143
MARKET FORECASTS 144
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 147
COMPANY PROFILES 149
Nestle S.A. 149
ConAgra Foods, Inc. 156
H.J. Heinz Company 162
APPENDIX 167
Data Research Methodology 167
About Datamonitor 168
Disclaimer 168

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Global ready meals market value: $ million, 2005-09(e) 18
Table 2: Global ready meals market volume: million kilograms, 2005-09(e) 19
Table 3: Global ready meals market segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009(e) 20
Table 4: Global ready meals market segmentation II: % share, by value, 2009(e) 21
Table 5: Global ready meals market share: % share, by value, 2009(e) 22
Table 6: Global ready meals market distribution: % share, by value, 2009(e) 29
Table 7: Global ready meals market value forecast: $ million, 2009-14 30
Table 8: Global ready meals market volume forecast: million kilograms, 2009-14 31
Table 9: Asia-Pacific ready meals market value: $ million, 2005-09(e) 33

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