This study analyses the French market for frozen food products and ice cream, sold to households and to out-of-home catering: vegetables and potatoes, pizzas and ready meals, seafood and meat, bakery and pastry, ice cream and frozen desserts. In the absence of a recent overall measurement, it compares large food retail panels, household panels and industry estimates without adding them together. In 2025, supermarkets and hypermarkets sold 6,6 billion euros' worth of frozen foods and ice cream, a value up 28 % since 2019, against less than 3 % in volume. Ice cream reached a record 1,6 billion euros there, and private labels account for 64 % of the aisle's volumes. The study describes near-universal demand, linked to freezer ownership and convenience, then prices and brands by product family. It examines distribution, from general grocery retailers and click-and-collect to Picard, which accounted for 15,8 % of household purchases in 2025, as well as foodservice wholesalers and the declin
