Kantar: Filled cones and chocolate snacks drive 8.1% rise in UK ice cream sales
Volumes were up 6.8% to 343.3m litres over the same period.
The strongest growth came from filled cones, up 18.6% by value and 21.1% by volume; followed by chocolate snacks (eg. Magnum ice creams), up 14.1% by value and 13% by volume.
Premium ice cream was up 5.2% by value and down 0.5% by volume, while sales of standard two-litre tubs were up 6.6% by value and 3.9% by volume.
However, sales of dessert ice cream (ice cream-based desserts such as Vienetta) were down 9.9%.
The figures were supplied to FoodManufacture.co.uk by Kantar Worldpanel following the publication of a Mintel report into the global ice cream market covering sales in 2009.
