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Ready-made meals are prepared dishes that require very little preparation, or simply reheating before being eaten. Available in various forms (canned, vacuum-packed, etc.), ready-made meals have gradually invaded supermarket shelves. They correspond to a trend towards faster, more convenient consumption by consumers who spend less time preparing meals.
today, we are witnessing a diversification of recipes - both quantitatively and qualitatively - and of the foods used - meat, vegetables, seafood, fish - to suit new market segments with more demanding quality requirements.
Globally, the ready-made meals market has experienced strong growth in recent years, and is set to grow at an average rate of around 5.1% a year between 2022 and 2030.
In terms of sales to households, supermarkets and hypermarkets account for around 60% of ready meal sales, grocery stores for around a quarter of sales, while online sales are the third-largest sales channel in absolute terms, but show the strongest growth.
In Spain, the ready-cooked meals market is traditionally split between chilled meals, which represent the largest market segment by value, frozen meals, which rank second, and other types of meal, which account for less than 20% of the total. The ready-cooked meals market declined in 2020.
Sales to hotels, restaurants and cafés collapsed following the confinements imposed by the Spanish government. conversely, sales to private consumers soared, as Spaniards, trapped in their homes, began to consume more ready-made meals. However, this craze was not enough to offset the loss of revenue generated by hotels and restaurants: the market shrank by 1.5% over the period. Sales recovered well in 2021, however, and the market exceeded its 2019 level. Aided by sanitary relaxations, the market was also able to count on sustained household demand.
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- Estimated growth in the global ready meals market
- Distribution of ready-made meals
- Market size for ready-made meals
- Volume of exports of Spanish ready meals
- Consumption of prepared meals by month
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Fleury Michon, the king of ham, bets on plant-based products with vegetable slices - 28/03/2024
- - Fleury Michon sales: 795 million euros.
- - Products offered: three legume-based products (coral lentils, chickpeas, white beans)
- - Target market: 50% of consumers in France claim to be flexitarians.
- - Annual decline in the pork ham market: 2% to 3% in volume since 2015
- - Estimated supermarket delicatessen market for plant-based products: close to 150 million euros, up by around 3% in volume.
- fleury Michon's "nitrite-free" market share: 62% of sales.
80 Carrefour hypermarkets operated under franchise or leasing agreements - 14/11/2023
- On October 20, Carrefour announced its intention to switch 37 stores (comprising 15 hypermarkets and 21 supermarkets) to lease management.
- Since 2018, 80 hypermarkets have left integrated status, representing around a third of all hypermarkets.
- Around 75% of supermarkets (784 out of 1038) are currently leased or franchised.
Carrefour to lease out 37 stores - 21/10/2023
- Carrefour plans to lease out 37 new stores in 2022, 16 hypermarkets and 21 supermarkets.
- Around 4,000 employees affected
- The company launched an outsourcing program in 2018.
- The number announced is in line with previous years: 41 stores (including 16 hyper) in 2023, 43 stores (including 16 hyper) in 2022, and 47 stores (including 10 hyper) in 2021.
- Since Alexandre Bompard took over as CEO, 305 stores, including 80 hypermarkets, have been outsourced, affecting more than 23,000 employees.
Food: Carrefour joins forces with seven manufacturers to promote plant-based products - 07/09/2023
- The aim of the international coalition to accelerate sales of plant-based alternatives is to achieve joint sales of 3 billion euros in this niche by 2026.
- Carrefour's share will be 500 million euros, a 60% increase on today's figure.
- Plant-based alternatives represented a market worth 553 million euros in 2022
- Sales of plant-based products are enjoying double-digit growth.
Carrefour takes over Cora to avoid being left behind in France - 13/07/2023
- Carrefour acquired 60 Cora hypermarkets and 115 Match supermarkets.
- The acquisition cost was 1.05 billion euros.
- The acquired store networks have a strong presence in the Grand Est and Northern regions of France.
- With this acquisition, Carrefour's sales will increase by 5.2 billion euros, adding to the 42 billion euros it currently generates in France.
- Carrefour will take over 55 hypermarkets and 77 supermarkets.
- The combined market share of Carrefour and Cora will reach 22.6%, competing closely with Leclerc (22.4%).
- Carmila, the real estate company in which Carrefour holds a 36% stake, has reached an agreement to take over Louis Delhaize's 93% stake in Galimmo, a company owning 52 shopping arcades adjacent to Cora stores.
Voluntary redundancy plan at Carrefour - 27/06/2023
- 979 voluntary departures from head offices in France
- 85,000 employees in France (over 100,000 including franchised stores)
- Sales 2022: 90.8 billion euros (up 16%)
- Net profit 2022: 1.35 billion euros (up 26%)
- Approx. 1 billion euros in annual cost savings
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