Market research: South Korea (page 1 of 5)

Business Monitor International's South Korea Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regulato...

Future forecasts and historic market data can improve market and strategic planning- Understand which channels and products will be the major winners and losers in the coming years- Know the share of ...

Dairy in South Korea industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2006-10, and forecast to 2015). The prof...

Direct selling increased by 5% in value terms in 2011 thanks to healthy growth in most categories. Beauty and personal care showed 8% growth and consumer healthcare recorded 14% growth. In those categ...

Grocery retailers recorded 6% value growth in 2011 and reached Won64 trillion thanks to the healthy growth rate of modern grocery with 7% in value terms. Convenience stores also showed a strong value ...

Homeshopping value sales increased by 7% in 2011 due to a diverse product mix and reasonable prices. Beauty and personal care products, Food & Drink, Housewares Home Furnishings, Consumer Healthcare a...

Internet retailing is still cheaper than store-based retailing. In addition, consumer choice is more diverse because there are more sellers and different kinds of products available than store-based r...

Sales of mixed retailers increased by 12% in value terms in 2011 thanks to growth across all mixed retailers. Department stores continued to show healthy growth with their luxury-orientated marketing ...

In 2011, vending sales continued to decline, as other products vending saw its market size fall Won30 billion to Won140 billion in 2011. New products such as media products appeared in other products ...

This report contains detailed forecasts and analysis for South Korea, including trade and investment analysis, economic forecasts, political risk assessments and demographic trend analysis. Each ISA ...

Confectionery in South Korea industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume 2006-10, and forecast to 2015). ...

Among South Koreans, Italian cuisine, such as pizza and pasta, have become popular and more consumers enjoy cooking pasta with ingredients available in any local grocery retailers. In addition, the te...

The variety of products in canned/preserved ready meals has been extended due to an increase in consumer demand. Most canned/preserved ready meals in South Korea are dishes such as Jjajang (a salty bl...

More South Koreans continued to enjoying home cooking in 2011 due to abnormal weather conditions and skyrocketing meat and vegetable prices, which helped lead to growth of 5% in sauces, dressings and ...

Soup is expected to experience marginal current value growth of 2% in 2011, while volumes will decline by 2%. The continued decrease in dehydrated soup affected the soup category overall, even though ...

The South Korean economy resumed growth at the beginning of 2010 after experiencing a downturn in 2009. However, consumers did not regain their full confidence. Most people opted for traditional and f...

In 2010, the per capita volume consumption of rice continued to decrease as a variety of new meal solutions offered alternatives to traditional options. Sales of rice are expected to decline by 1% in ...

Frozen processed poultry is set to show 6% and 3% in current value growth and volume growth respectively. With consumers becoming more reluctant to eat frozen beef, which is considered less fresh and ...

Canned/preserved food has been negatively affected by the wellbeing trend. The advantage of canned food has for many years been its long shelf life. However, this advantage became a disadvantage durin...

Chilled processed food is expected to grow in the future based on consumer preference for fresh food with shorter expiration dates. Chilled processed fish/seafood will show a steady increase of 3% in ...

Noodles is likely to record 4% current value growth in 2011, to reach sales of Won2,432 billion. For the last two to three years of the review period, noodles experienced very strong growth of 6-7% in...

Oils and fats sales are expected to rise by 4% in 2011 thanks to premium vegetable and seeds oil. Margarine and olive oil is predicted to sustain a decrease and butter stagnate, while vegetable and se...

Ice cream is expected to record 5% growth in value sales in 2011 mainly thanks to impulse ice cream and frozen yoghurt. During the hot weather in the summer season, ice cream sales made strong progres...

Due to the constantly decreasing birth rate until early 2010, milk formula showed negative growth until 2010. According to the National Statics Office, the number of new born babies increased over a 1...

Cheese is expected to register a healthy growth rate in 2011, up 3% thanks to the good performance of unprocessed cheese which is likely to rise by 15% in retail value. Korean consumers became familia...

In the yoghurt and sour milk drinks category there has been polarisation between premium yoghurt and mass yoghurt under functional yoghurt. The mass brand Yakult once dominated the yoghurt market, how...

Other dairy is likely to continue decreasing in 2011 as growth in coffee whiteners is expected to decline. Coffee whiteners is affected more by new instant coffee mix brand, French Café by Namyang Dai...

Sugar confectionery is expected to record marginal 1% growth in value sales thanks to boiled sweets and medicated confectionery each of which will grow by 2% respectively. Manufacturers have focused m...

The overall gum category in 2011 increased despite a weak performance of Xylitol gum, the popularity of which waned in recent years and which affected the entire gum category. All Xylitol gum produced...

Biscuits sales are expected to increase by only 2% in value terms in 2011 stagnating through lack of new product developments. Savoury biscuits and crackers is predicted to record 4% value growth whil...