Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The US Bakery and Cereals Market: What Consumers Eat and Why?



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This report provides the results for the Bakery and Cereals market in the US from Canadean’s unique, highly detailed study of consumers’ Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) consumption habits, and forms part of an overall series covering all CPG product markets. Its coverage includes, but is not limited to, consumption behaviors, the extent to which consumer trends influence their consumption, the value of the market these trends influence, and brand and private label choices as well as retailer choices. Much of this information can also be analyzed by specific consumer groups, providing hard and fast data on consumers and markets at the product category level.


Introduction and Landscape
Why was the report written?
Marketers in the Bakery and Cereals market face a major challenge. Understanding market size and segmentation is valuable, but the key to effective targeting is knowing just how valuable specific consumer groups are, and being able to quantify the impact of consumer trends. This data report solves these problems by providing survey based data on consumer trends and consumer groups and market data that show the exact the size of consumer groups, how much of the Bakery and Cereals market they account for, and which consumer trends drive their behavior.

What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
As consumer confidence increases proportionally to economic recovery, consumer trends will be directly affected. Since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 the retail market has been characterized by an increase in the amount of discounted and own-brand products. Cereals and Bread products are considered staple foods and therefore recession has not really affected their consumption pattern. On the other hand, Bakery products such as Cakes and Cookies are not considered essential items so consumption patterns have been comparatively affected.

What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
Consumers’ uptake of products and the influence of consumer trends are fundamental causes of change in markets – making knowing what these trends are and the extent of their influence crucial. The survey-based data provided in this report examines over 20 consumer trends that affect the market and examines the share of Consumption across 26 consumer groups. This data provides a detailed insight into exactly who the consumer is and just how much impact the latest consumer trends are having.

What makes this report unique and essential to read?
The data provided is unique in the market as it tracks consumer behavior through to its actual value impact on a product market. This provides readers with a unique data analysis of the market, allowing marketing tactics and strategy to be updated in line with the very latest consumer behaviors.


Key Features and Benefits
Consumer data, based upon proprietary surveys and then consumer group tracking and modeling for the following specific categories: Baking Ingredients, Baking Mixes, Bread and Rolls, Cakes, Pastries and Sweet Pies, Cereal Bars, Cereals, Cookies (Sweet Biscuits), Dough Products, Energy Bars, Morning Goods, and Savory Biscuits.

Detailed consumer segmentation covering over 26 consumer groups, 20 consumer trends, and consumption frequency for each product category.

Consumer penetration for brands and private labels, based upon the original survey and then subsequent consumer tracking and modeling.

Unique retailer choice data at the product category level, based upon the original survey and then subsequent consumer tracking and modeling.

Key Market Issues
The proportion of consumers of Cereals in the US is fairly high for all age groups; however, there is a peak for Tweens and Early Teens. This group covers an age where children can begin to prepare their own basic snacks without parental assistance. Although Cereal is usually eaten as a breakfast item it can also be consumed as a snack and is simple enough to prepare. Consumers in older age groups have access to alternative snack items. Marketers should use this information to target their advertising towards increasing consumption rates in Kids and Babies group as they do not have the most heavy rate users.

The population of consumers participating in this survey from the US is split fairly evenly between Male and Female. However, in both the Cookies (Sweet Biscuits) and Savory Biscuits categories the Male to Female ratio differs significantly. More Males consume Cookies and more Females consume Savory Biscuits. Marketers can take advantage of this gender difference in their advertising campaigns for these products.

Approximately 30% of the population in the US are heavy consumers of Morning Goods. This is not surprising and reflects the breakfast habits of US consumers. This is a mature market and it will be difficult for marketers to encourage consumers to increase their consumption rates or extend the market to non-users without fully appreciating the trends and influences behind their choices.

Key Highlights
Not only do a large proportion of the US consumers highlight that specific consumer trends have an influence on their consumption, this translates into a significant proportion of actual value being directly influenced as well. Consumers are therefore acting on these trends enough to ensure that targeting them, in the right categories, is essential to success.

The majority of the retail share by value of the Bakery and Cereals market in the US is dominated by just two retailers. The remainder of the market is fragmented, which gives producers average bargaining power when dealing with retailers.

Private Label penetration in the Bakery and Cereals market in the US varies from a few percent in the Baking Mixes market to well over a quarter of the Bread and Rolls market. This indicates varying levels of consumer brand loyalty and national brand domination. In some markets such as Savory Biscuits, however, there is still room for Private Label growth.


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