FRANCE: CHILLED DAIRY FOODS AND BREAKFAST

Article Abstract:

Athough milk is a necessary product for breakfast (75% of the 120 litres which the French consume every year are taken at breakfast), it appears to be difficult for other chilled dairy products to take acceptance for breakfast, a time when the French like to find the products they know. For example, only 9% of the French have yogurt for breakfast. However, health potions such as Actimel, appear to be having a real sucess, since this product to be taken 'in addition to' does not upset the French people's eating habits. The French like the breakfast segment of a non-fat with product with fruit and cereals. This segment, estimated at 9,300 tonnes, posted a 78% rise in 1999, compared with 1998. Yoplait and Danone (with Taillefine) are competing on this buoyant segment.

Fluid Milk & Cream, Danone S.A., Yoplait S.A.

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FRANCE: CHEESE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2001

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Consumers' expectations of cheese focus on the products' nutritional value, with tastes which are not as strong for young people and women, and practicality. In order to meet these expectations, manufacturers are increasingly seeking light cheeses and ready-to-eat cheese which is shredded, sliced, or diced. The French cheese market represented EUR 3.6bn in the first quarter of 2001 , for a volume of 465,067 tonnes. The rise in value is due to the estimated price rise of 3.84% in hypermarkets, and 3.68% in supermarkets over one year. The self-service departments rose 4% in value and 1% in volume over the first three months of 2001. Culinary ingredients rose 9% in volume, fresh cheeses rose 8.6%, up 12.7% in value, hard cheese without holes rose 3.4%, up 6.4% in value, and products for children rose 1%, up 5% in value. The top segment is soft cheese, which decreased 1.8% in volume, but rose 1.7% in value. On this segment, the only cheeses which rose were the AOC wash rind cheese, up 0.1% and sheep's milk cheese, up 11.6%. Processed cheese dropped 0.1% in volume and rose 3.5% in value.

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France: Review of the chilled foods market

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The development on the chilled dairy products market varies widely according to the segments. Although meal substitutes fell 19.4% for the year ending July 2001, all of other segments rose. Babyfood posted the sharpest rise, up 12.3%, followed by compotes and jams and jellies, up 11%, fromages frais rose 9.5%, yogurt rose 4.7%, and chilled desserts rose 4.4%. Yogurts dropped 1% in volume while meal substitutes fell 20.8%. However babyfood rose 8.8% in volume, compotes and jams and jellies rose 5.1%, and fromages frais rose 4%, while chilled desserts remained quasi-steady with a 0.5% rise. Light foods are one of the segments which is expanding the most on the chilled dairy products market. They now represent nearly 20% of yogurt's sales volume, and 30% of yogurt with fruit.

Food & Kindred Products, Dietetic Foods, Food Manufacturing, Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Baby Food, Specialty Canning, FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS, Yogurt, Pure Jams & Preserves, Canned fruits and vegetables, Canned specialties, Diet foods, Baby foods, Jam

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