Market research: Mexico (page 3 of 10)

Direct selling greatly benefits from weak job creation and an unstable economic environment. Typically, people working in direct selling are those in precarious employment, who often see direct sellin...

For many years chained grocery retailers exclusively targeted large and mid-sized urban areas in the country, leaving small populations and rural areas to traditional, non-chained grocers. This situat...

While homeshopping is facing increasing competition from Internet retailing, the channel remained resilient in 2012, growing by 14% in value terms. This was in part due to persistent investment by lea...

Internet retailing in Mexico increased by 23% in current value terms in 2012. While Internet retailing is growing rapidly and shows no sign of stopping, Mexico lags behind compared with some other Lat...

Mixed retailers keep growing at double-digit rates in value terms, increasing by 11% in 2012 and 7% in outlet terms. Selling space grew by only 5%, indicating that the average selling space per outle...

Vending machines continued to experience significant growth in 2012 as part of a long-term trend towards increased convenience. As long-term trends such as urbanisation, an increasing number of women ...

Confectionery in Mexico industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2007-2011, and forecast to 2016). The...

Savory Snacks in Mexico industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2007-2011, and forecast to 2016). The...

Business Monitor International's Mexico Retail Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, retail associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with indepe...

Impulse ice cream was the fastest growing category in 2012, achieving 6% value growth. This category is subject to more innovation, as it is targeted mainly towards children and tweens, who quickly ti...

The global obesity epidemic is affecting Mexico much more seriously than other countries. According the OECD, in 2011, Mexico has the second largest overweight or obese adult population, after the US ...

The Gansitos brand, launched in 1957, leads the packaged/industrial cakes category with a 29% value share. Marketing research studies show that 96% of Mexican children recognise the image of the littl...

Mexico reports the highest child obesity rates in the world, and the Mexican Government has made efforts to create awareness of the long-term health and cost implications for country. Additionally, in...

Olive oil sales in México are very low, accounting for just 1% of total oils and fats sales in volume terms and 6% in current value terms in 2012. This product type is used mainly for frying or spread...

During 2011, overall healthy growth rate sustained most of the packaged food market...

The global obesity epidemic is affecting Mexico more seriously than other countries. According to a recent study by OECD, Mexico has the second largest overweight or obese adult population, after the ...

Mexico has the highest rate of obesity among children in the world and the Government has made significant efforts to create awareness of the effects of this condition. Mothers are more aware of the n...

During the review period, the snack companies kept making efforts to slash the general perception of snack products being highly unhealthy. During 2011, Bimbo reduced from 20% to 30% the amount of sal...

Health and wellness trends keep growing, especially in terms of products that are frequently consumed in the country, such as mayonnaise. Mexicans tend to consume large amounts of mayonnaise and this ...

In contrast to other packaged food divisions in which health & wellness products are currently making a difference, in soup, these products are negligible and failing to make a significant or even not...

International wheat prices showed remarkable stability during the review period. While commodity wheat prices had an important hike during May 2011 to US$354 per tonne (yet still far from the all-time...

For a number of years, instant noodles have remained hugely popular amongst Mexicans, with reports of them even replacing other traditional products such as tortillas, to some degree. The reasons for ...

Ready meals are expensive when compared to most standard fresh food, yet retail sales continue to increase steadily due to the growing appreciation of convenience among consumers. Demographic factors ...

Due to the ever important convenience factor, canned/preserved food continued to register retail volume growth. Thus the popularity of such products is boosted by the presentation of smaller packaging...

Dried food prices have increased, though growth has been manageable rather than disastrous. In 2012, the average current unit price of rice is expected to grow by 6% to reach Mx$18.00 per kg. Mexico i...

Over 50% of frozen processed food in Mexico is derived from agricultural products (potatoes, vegetables and other frozen products - mostly fruits). However, agriculture is impacted greatly by the clim...

Chilled processed meat is very popular in Mexico, with per capita volume consumption reaching 2kg year-on-year in the review period. Despite strong consumption, the average Mexican consumer is not dem...

After a relatively long period of high prices for raw materials, namely cocoa beans, for which there were two peaks (December 2009 and February 2011) at around US$3,500 per tonne, prices started to fa...

During the first quarter of 2012, Nestlé México SA de CV launched a range of chilled baby food products, such as Gerber Bebible, Gerber Petit and Blend, as well as Yoghurt Batido Gerber....

Although sugarised gum and bubble gum account for the larger share of volume sales in the gum category, sugar free gum continues to see the strongest growth in volume and value terms. This reflects th...