Mintel: UK ice cream sales up 7.5% to £799m in 2009
The strongest growth was in premium, indulgent products, said Mintel Global Market Navigator analyst Ana Lourenco.
“In the UK, premium ice cream has proved hugely successful and now accounts for just under a quarter of value sales. But the trend does not just stop in Europe.
"Mintel’s Global New Products Database (GNPD) finds that on a global scale, premium lines accounted for 9% of global ice cream product launches in the past six months, compared with economy new product launches which accounted for 4%.”
Chocolate remains the most popular flavour for new launches across the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, she added: “A third of the total ice cream products launched in the UK in 2009 were chocolate flavour, compared with 31% in Spain, 22% in Italy, 17% in Germany and 16% in France.”
As for consumption patterns, the Germans ate the most ice cream per head in Europe, spending an average of £19 a year, compared with France at £14 per head and Italy and the UK at £13/head.
