Value-Conscious Snacks for Evolving Consumer Demands

April 2025

Consumers continue to be more mindful of their snack purchases - leveraging different channels, categories, and brands to find a fitting deal. And as manufacturers rise to deliver more quality affordable offerings, a great deal of market volatilities (eg tariffs, regulations) create challenges that are best tackled with long-term, positively impactful investments. A greater degree of flexibility, consumer centricity and relentless rooting in value remain crucial to sustain a path of growth.

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Key Findings

Tiered offerings to support consumer loyalty amidst value concerns

Cumulative inflation over the last few years has narrowed the potential for what cash-strapped consumers are able to buy. This sustained value scrutiny is pressuring manufacturers’ ability to adapt to changing consumer perceptions of value with a range of accessible products.

Dynamic distribution, amongst other factors, critical for momentum

As new modes to distribute and communicate products become available, brands will be tested to act flexibly. Regular SKU performance checkups, long-term assortment planning, multi-channel marketing and supply chain optimisations will be important for ensuring optimal consumption.

Shifting societal values are anchoring in consumer wellbeing

Health, sustainability, multiculturalism and sensory remain key value pillars. And with the expectation that consumers’ aspirations for better living conditions will remain a priority into the future, brand efforts rooted in their wellbeing are expected to outperform in the long term.

Despite more volatilities set for the future, growth opportunities remain

As the market encounters ongoing uncertainties, opportunities will emerge to embrace positively impactful changes. With proper structures and intentions in place, brands can bring about new realisations of consumer value and unlock growth.

Why read this report?
Key findings
Growth of value-conscious snacking
The affordability challenge continues to create rifts in consumers and their choices
Reinforcing the perpetual purchase requires more quality intentions and enablement
Closer scrutiny of how consumers are shifting interactions with brands
Brands should hold products across each stage of the consumer loyalty journey…
…as every consumer is after some sense of “better”
Premium snacks will continue to play a part in consumers’ purchasing habits
Despite the state of consumerism in flux, quality affordables offer brands a way forward
To grow at full potential, portfolios must be adaptive to consumer variety demand shifts
Distribution architectures must evolve to seize dynamic channels’ growth
Brand benefits from adaptive assortment amongst owned dynamic channels
A glimpse into the top performing channel-product snacks by region to inform mix
Mix strategies extend considerations beyond profits: Measuring on multiple fronts
Omnichannel and packaging delighters pivotal to out-promote the competition
Future dollar spend will remain under scrutiny: Shaped by novel value concerns
Emphasis on the goodness of snacks is fuelling brand growth
Consumers’ core, everlasting value pillars provide a basis for meaningful marketing
Marketing campaigns continue to anchor on these pillars
New promotional opportunities will appear as the market braces for further volatility
Focusing on consumer-tailored value propositions will position brands for better outcomes
Recommendations/Opportunities for growth
Modernisation, enhancing the portfolio in another sense, holds everlasting opportunity
Evolution of value-conscious snacking
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