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- Ice Cream in UK (2024) – Market Sizes
Ice Cream – UK by Mintel Market Sizes provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2024. This market covers all packaged ice cream, sorbets and water ices in family packs, individually wrapped and multipack format. It excludes unpackaged items, desserts, frozen cakes, frozen yoghurts and tofu. Market value and volume comprises sales through all retail channels including direct to consumer. Market size for Ice Cream – UK is given in GBP and litre with a minimum of five years’ historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years. Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for UK. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates.
Segmentation of this market
- Family Packs
- Individually Wrapped
- Multipacks
Compound annual growth rates
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is provided for this market and is based on the last 5 years of available data.
Socio-economic data
Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for UK. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates.
Market Size & Forecast
Market size for Ice Cream – UK is given in GBP and litre with a minimum of five years’ historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years.
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Retail market size
- Highlights – strongest and weakest performers
- Figure 1: Volume – Absolute size (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 2: Volume – Volume Consumption per capita (population) (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 3: Volume – Growth (2018 – 2028)
- Table 1: Volume (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 4: Value in Local Currency – Value (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 5: Value in Local Currency – Unit prices (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 6: Value in Local Currency – Value growth (2018 – 2028)
- Table 2: Value in Local Currency (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 7: Value in USD – Value (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 8: Value in USD – Spend per capita (population) (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 9: Value in USD – Spend as a proportion of GDP (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 10: Value in USD – Unit prices (2018 – 2028)
- Figure 11: Value in USD – Value growth (2018 – 2028)
- Table 3: Value in USD (2018 – 2028)
Market Segmentations
- Figure 12: UK – Ice Cream: Retail market segmentation by volume (m litres) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 4: UK – Ice Cream: Retail market segmentation by volume (m litres) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 13: UK – Ice Cream: Retail market segmentation by value (m GBP) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 5: UK – Ice Cream: Retail market segmentation by value (m GBP) (2021 – 2023)
Market Shares
- Figure 14: UK – Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 6: UK – Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 15: UK – Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 7: UK – Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 16: UK – Family Packs Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 8: UK – Family Packs Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 17: UK – Family Packs Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 9: UK – Family Packs Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 18: UK – Individually Wrapped Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 10: UK – Individually Wrapped Ice Cream: Company retail market share by volume (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Figure 19: UK – Individually Wrapped Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
- Table 11: UK – Individually Wrapped Ice Cream: Company retail market share by value (%) (2021 – 2023)
Company & Brand details
- Table 12: UK – Ice Cream: Company Website Links
Compound annual growth rates
- Table 13: Retail market compound annual growth rates (2019 – 2028)
Socio-economic data
- Figure 20: Population (millions) (2019 – 2028)
- Table 14: Population (millions) (2019 – 2028)
- Figure 21: Consumer price index (CPI) (2019 – 2028)
- Table 15: Consumer price index (CPI) (2019 – 2028)
- Figure 22: Gross domestic product (tn USD) (2019 – 2028)
- Table 16: Gross domestic product (tn USD) (2019 – 2028)
- Figure 23: Exchange rates (2019 – 2028)
- Table 17: Exchange rates (2019 – 2028)
Sources of Data
- Table 18: UK – Ice Cream
Methodology
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