This Market Dynamics report features market data taken from Mintel’s China Cheese Market Report 2025. Giving you direct access to key market information and analysis from our category experts. This report is ideal for those looking for a topline summary of the China cheese market. The full report is available to purchase here.
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The market
- Market factors
- China’s macroeconomic indicators (January-October 2025)
- China’s Dairy Industry Advancing Towards 2030 injected new momentum into the cheese market
- The potential of the children’s market is being tested, and the cheese industry should continue to diversify its consumer groups
- Graph 1: birth rate, 2005-24
- Graph 2: online children’s cheese sales trend, November 2024-October 2025
- Cheese transcends traditional perceptions; scenario expansion creates new opportunities for the category
- Market size and forecast
- Key market indicators
- Consumer acceptance of cheese has risen, and the market downturn has narrowed
- Graph 3: best- and worst-case forecast of retail value of cheese, 2020-30
- Consumer acceptance of cheese has risen, and the market downturn has narrowed
- Graph 4: best- and worst-case forecast of retail volume of cheese, 2020-30
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The consumer
- Overview of cheese consumption
- Overall penetration of cheese increased
- Graph 5: cheese consumption frequency (NET) difference, 2024 vs 2025
- The breakthrough strategies for children’s cheese: from general applicability to scientific age segmentation
- Breaking the age ceiling for children’s snack cheese
- Graph 6: consumption of snack cheese by families with children, by age of children in household, 2025
- Lining up with occasions for cheese snacks for adults: from indoor and outdoor family consumption to late-night self-indulgence
- Snack cheese is consumed by families, both indoors and outdoors
- Graph 7: consumption occasions for packaged cheese, by family structure, 2025
- Singles pay more attention to indulging themselves late at night and sharing food at work
- Graph 8: consumption occasions for packaged cheese, by family structure, 2025
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Appendix – market size and forecast, research methodology and abbreviations
- Market size and forecast
- Methodology: consumer survey
- Methodology: TURF analysis
- Methodology: Mintel Flavours Landscape interpretation
- Abbreviations
- Co-author
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