Retail value sales will rise modestly throughout the forecast period, maintaining a steady pace. Volume sales, meanwhile, will be flat or marginal at best.
Amid the challenges that have been facing ice cream in recent years, manufacturers are actively exploring new retail channels to sustain growth. For instance, in 2024, Yili partnered with Guoquan Shihui - a food specialist retailer known for selling frozen hotpot ingredients - to distribute its ice cream products across over 10,000 Guoquan outlets nationwide.
Adopt A Cow, an emerging Chinese dairy player known for its rapid growth in drinking milk products and yoghurt, ventured into ice cream in 2024. Adopt A Cow launched a new line of ice cream made from A2 ß-casein fresh milk, leveraging the rising production and popularity of A2 milk across various dairy segments.
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Ice Cream
Ice cream is the aggregation of frozen yoghurt, impulse ice cream, plant-based ice cream, unpackaged ice cream and take-home ice cream. Frozen desserts is included in Passport’s Staple Foods research. Please note that soft serve ice cream from ice cream dispensing machines sold at foodservice outlets (e.g. fast food or ice cream parlours) is entirely excluded.
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