Grocery Retailing and Consumer Trends in Brazil 2011

Marketers in the Brazilian grocery market face changing consumption patterns as a result of demographic changes, uncertain economic conditions and evolving technology. This makes it essential to not only understand the current state of the market, but to also quantify the impact of consumer trends, providing a spotlight on what consumption decisions are being made and why.This report solves these problems by providing integrated survey-based data for Alcoholic Drinks, Beverages, Food, and Health & Beauty products which show value and volume retail sales data, relative brand and private label shares, retailer shares by product category (volume data), the value of different consumer groups, and quantifies the amount of the total market directly influenced consumer trends.

The effects of a weak global economy and the following recovery have led consumers to closely examine their choice of retailer and products purchased. While country by country the effects have varied, no grocery retail market has been left totally untouched, creating a need to understand exactly who the end consumer audience is and what their main motivations are.

The report provides valuable, hard to get, consumer-survey based data (integrated with industry research) on the grocery market in Brazil. It provides value and volume data for 146 product categories, Private Label penetration rates by category, and the value of the market directly influenced by Consumer Trends (which affects consumption choices).For two types of Private Label purchasers, trends affecting the reasons to purchase private labels are also shown. As the report focuses on end-consumers and not in-store shoppers, it provides a different perspective compared to other types of data, helping retailers to identify which consumer groups they want to compete for in the future.

Key Features and Benefits
1. The report profiles 146 product categories across Alcoholic Drinks, Beverages, Food, and Health & Beauty in Brazil, with value and volume data.

2. Data highlights Private Label penetration rates in 146 categories tracked by the survey and drivers of consumption choices.

3. Leading total grocery retailer volume shares for all 146 categories.

4. The value of the total market each trend accounts for, showing the size of the prize for products able to hit specific consumer needs and desires. Strategically this helps to know what the main consumer trends are and therefore to update stocking policies accordingly.

Key Market Issues
1. The Alcoholic Drinks sector in the Brazil is dominated by the top 3 retailers who hold more than 50% share. The Fragrances category in the Health & Beauty industry has the highest level of consolidation among retailers, while the Food markets have the lowest.

2. Private labels have a reasonably decent share in the total Food markets accounting for more than one-tenth of the volume share. Conversely, in the Alcoholic drinks markets branded products leave very little scope for private labels. Therefore, in various Food categories like snacks products and meat, fish & seafood, Private label is squeezing the weaker brands in the market.

3. According to survey results, both Regular and Occasional Private label consumers quoted that the most important driving factors influencing their consumption patterns are ''Better Value for Money’ and ''Changing Age Structures’. This implies that price is not the only factor driving sales of private labels.

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