Colombia’s food and beverage sector offers strong growth opportunities, benefitting from the better macroeconomic conditions in the country, growing disposable incomes, and higher spending by the rising middle class. Market players are looking not only at increasing their gains on the domestic market through diversification and introduction of new products in order to satisfy the emerging sophisticated demands of the population, but also at expanding their operations internationally. The most attractive foreign markets remain the countries from Latin America, but some companies are looking also at countries in Europe, Asia and North America.

The global dairy products market is identified as a mature market that has grown significantly to cross over $500 billion in revenues in 2018. The market is characterized by intense competition across all its product categories. The significance of this industry stems from the fact that its products are consumed across all age groups. This makes  the industry highly competitive. The range of products in the dairy industry is also an important factor for the packaging industry as the packaging varies according to the product that needs to be packaged. A combination of a slowing economy and intense competition results in margins pressure as value for money is the key in the industry. Regions with low disposable income or slowing economy face packaging challenges such as efficient packaging with lower cost of manufacturing.

8 月，食品三大子行业工业增加值增速较上月呈“两降一升”态势。食品制造业工业增加值同比增长 5.0%，农副食品加工业增加值增速为 0，酒、饮料和精制茶制造业工业增加值同比增长4.9%。食品工业主要产品中，乳制品产量增长放缓，鲜、冷藏肉产量同比下跌，白酒产量加快增长。行业固定资产投资总体低迷，其中，酒、饮料和精制茶制造业固定资产同比增长 4.7%，食品制造业固定资产投资同比下滑 2.2%，农副食品加工业固定资产投资同比减少 9.4%。 

This report on the European premium chocolates market (henceforth, referred to as the ‘market studied’) offers key insights into the market’s latest developments. It analyzes the recent trends, drivers, and challenges affecting the market studied. • The report segments the market studied by type, into dark premium chocolate and white and milk premium chocolates. The market studied is further segmented by distribution channel into hypermarkets/supermarkets, convenience stores, online retail stores, and other distribution channels.

Beta agonists feed additives are used to feed ruminants and swine, especially before sla ug hteri ng. They are approved feed additives, which helps in escalating lean muscle gain, inc rease growth rate, and feed efficiency. The report presents an in-depth analysis of the market share, size, and trends of the global beta agonist feed additive market. It comprises compre hensi ve a nalysis of market segmentation on the basis of types of feed additives and animal types for which, feed additives are used.

This report on the US cookies market offers key insights into the latest developments. The report analyzes the recent opportunities, drivers, and challenges affecting the market space for cookies in the United States. By product type, the market is segmented in filled biscuits, chocolate- coated biscuits, cookies, sandwich biscuits, plain biscuits, and others. By category, the market is segmented into standard and healthy.

This report on the global ethnic food market (henceforth, referred to as the market studied) offers key insights into the latest developments. It analyzes the recent trends, drivers, and challenges affecting the global market space for ethnic food. • The report takes into consideration the market value of all the ethnic food products available through the retail channels. These include ethnic food products, such as ready meals, frozen products, sauces and seasonings, pastas and noodles, bakery products, meat products, tacos, and taquitos, among others. The market studied expands as per the changing demographics across the world, and the shift in consumer demand to try new and different cuisines, like Caribbean and African cuisines, the cuisines of Mediterranean countries beyond Italy, and kosher and halal foods. Various cuisines are attracting the consumers to explore beyond the core markets.

Pet humanization is a result of changes in people’s lifestyles, changing demographic patterns, and consumer preferences. Furthermore, the rising income, growing pet humanization, and people’s affection for pet strengthen the market studied. The shift in pet ‘ownership’ to ‘parenting’ has been a very crucial trend in the market studied, particularly in the developed countries. Over one-third of the households in the developed countries own a pet. However, consumers are now becoming aware that pet food and home-made food consist of separate nutritional elements and that pets need to be fed a diverse range of food, as part of providing an adequate diet. Hence, the demand for high-quality pet food is increasing, supported by the rise in pet ownership.