本報告已在2011年07月19日停止出版。

消費者的飲食習慣有逐漸脫離「1天定時吃3餐」的傾向。美國及歐洲午餐用攜帶式食物市場在2004年已經達到700億歐元的規模。
擅長多領域市調分析的英國專業市調公司 Datamontor Corporation(總公司:倫敦),詳細地調查並分析有關攜帶式食物的消費動向,並有系統地出版綜合報告書“The Future of Eating Meals On-The-Go”。
此報告書使用包括54張圖的篇幅,除了探討當今攜帶式食物的市場規模及未來預測、攝取攜帶式食物的機會、各國飲食習慣的綜合情報等, 並且說明根據調查結果所做的戰略性活動要點。此報告書的概略架構如下所示。
第 1 章 摘要
第 2 章 解讀未來
- 說明:攜帶式食物的定義
- 趨勢:社會的變化使得傳統的用餐時間進化了
- 趨勢:被時間追趕的生活促進攜帶式食物的普及
- 觀察:最容易被省略掉的一餐是早餐
- 觀察:工作對攜帶式食物的消費行動具有強大的影響力
- 觀察:通勤時間是攝取攜帶式食物的主要機會
- 觀察:學校的營養午餐是重要的機會
- 觀察:最不容易省略的是晚餐
- 觀察:對於忙碌生活中的飲食問題帶來劃時代的解決方案
- 觀察:運動及休閒活動為攜帶式食物帶來新的商機
- 觀察:攜帶式食物消費量的標示、健康與行動的差距
- 觀察:季節的變化對食物的選擇有很大的影響
第 3 章 行動要點
- 以增加消費量為目的、提高攜帶式食物的便利性
- 提高攝取早餐的機會
- 以健康取向為目標積極擴大攜帶式食物的消費
- 讓便利性與味道能兩立
- 結論
第 4 章 附錄
- 補充資料
- 定義
- 調查方法論
- 參考文獻
- 調查報告執筆團隊
- 業績的聯絡處
- 圖表
Introduction
Consumer eating habits continue to evolve away from three core meals per day consumed within a generally accepted timeframe. In 2004, the OTG lunches market was worth 70 billion Euros in US and Europe. Behavior and motivation vary by country and by daypart. Time constraints are a major factor in directing food consumption but marketers must understand that convenience is just one on-the-go driver.
Scope of this report
- Quantitative data outlining the current and future value of on-the-go meals by country, and the evolution of on-the-go occasions by country.
- Data and analysis on mealtime occasions - core, light and missed - broken down by country
- Comprehensive information on eating habits such as location, meal preferences, and preparation times.
- Detailed action points offering practical strategies based on the trends and insights analyzed in the report
Research and analysis highlights
Consumers feel like they have less leisure time due to work commitments and patterns of commuting and house ownership. They seek products that give them back time and are willing to pay extra for them.
Breakfast is a key OTG mealtime occasion as the number of skipped breakfast continues to rise in Europe and US. Consumers can achieve many benefits from having a regular breakfast and many would do so if the options available were more appetizing, varied and above all convenient.
Consumers present noticeable attitude behavior gaps when balancing the drivers of taste and health. They also demonstrate some skepticism to the nutritional claims made by CPG manufacturers.
Key reasons to read this report
- Understand the attitudes driving the consumption of food balanced against convenience
- Improve your marketing strategy by targeting the most profitable occasions and their accompanying needstates
- View best practice examples of targeting time-starved consumers with practical products that go beyond a convenience positioning
CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- The Future Decoded
- Traditional mealtimes are evolving
- Time pressure increasingly contributes to on-the-go eating
- Other need states are increasing in importance
- Action points
CHAPTER 2 THE FUTURE DECODED
- Introduction
- Defining on-the-go
- TREND: Changes in society have driven the evolution of traditional mealtimes
- The decline of the nuclear family has changed family mealtimes
- People eat in a wide variety of places
- Western consumers are skipping meals with increased regularity
- The traditional concept of a meal is changing
- A wider range of foods is being consumed at mealtimes
- TREND: Time pressure increasingly contributes to on-the-go eating
- Consumers feel more time pressure
- Work commitments put the greatest strain on eating behavior
- Modern workers have long commuting journey times
- INSIGHT: Breakfast is the most commonly skipped meal
- Skipped breakfast occasions vary by age group
- Teenage girls in the US often miss breakfast altogether
- Breakfast is linked with better mental and physical performance
- Health experts agree that breakfast has a major impact on nutrition
- Breakfast consumption tends to reduce daily calorie intake
- Eating breakfast is a key part in staying healthy for life
- Products can move beyond their traditional mealtime positioning
- INSIGHT: Work has the greatest impact on on-the-go meal consumption behavior
- Contemporary workloads are perceived as high
- Significant growth in lunch skipping is predicted in southern Europe
- US and north European consumers already have a utilitarian attitude to lunch
- Average lunchtime duration is decreasing across Europe
- Eating at the desk can be unhealthy
- Workers often use food to beat stress
- INSIGHT: Commuting is a key meals on-the-go opportunity
- The morning commute is a practical breakfast opportunity
- Teleworking is a threat to on-the-go meal consumption
- INSIGHT: Healthy school lunches are a key opportunity
- National culture drives school lunch offerings
- Countries that attach lower importance to food are redressing the balance
- Legislation threatens to make kids health a must
- Legislation will make many lunchtime canteen options obsolete
- INSIGHT: Dinner is the least likely meal to be consumed on-the-go
- Dinner is seen as the most important contribution to daily nutrition
- Europe and US will move away from core evening meals
- Indulgence levels are higher later in the day
- INSIGHT: Crammed social lives require innovative meal solutions
- Young Adults are prone to pit-stop dining
- Night time foodservice is a major threat to consumer packaged goods
- INSIGHT: Sports and active leisure create new opportunities in OTG meals
- Gym membership is rising in the US and parts of Europe
- Correct nutrition can boost exercise performance and recovery
- INSIGHT: On-the-go meal consumption presents attitude and behavior gaps to health
- Taste is more important than health in food purchases
- Consumers would like to effortlessly combine nutrition with taste
- Consumers find it difficult to combine health and taste on-the-go
- Consumers are skeptical about nutrition and health claims
- Better clarity is needed in food labeling
- INSIGHT: Seasonality has a significant impact on meal choice
- In summer, consumers seek lightness and freshness
- Winter weather makes consumers seek heartier fills with less emphasis on health
- Conclusions
CHAPTER 3 ACTION POINTS
- Introduction
- Improve convenience to increase on-the-go consumption
- Remove on-the-go consumption barriers with disposable cutlery
- Offer more one-handed foods and liquid fills
- Formulate products into convenient cupholder-sized packaging
- Expand the breakfast occasion
- Use indirect selling methods to increase breakfast consumption
- Originate more portable breakfast foods beyond cereal bars
- Target health requirements positively
- Simplify labeling to improve consumer knowledge and confidence
- Leverage the supply chain and consumer understanding to improve freshness
- Use positive messages to sell healthier OTG options
- Roll out smaller serving options for lighter meals and dieting consumers
- Target the healthy energy boost as a key need state
- Target time-starved consumers in relevant channels
- Develop balanced co-branded nutrition solutions
- Avoid linking convenience to a taste compromise
- Restrict space-age technologies to relevant products
- Provide hot food in convenience stores with branded microwaves
- Conclusions
CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX
- Supplementary data
- Definitions
- Research methodology
- References
- Report writing team
- How to contact experts in your industry
List of Tables
- Table 1: Retail on-the-go food market value (US$m), US and Europe, 2004
- Table 2: Retail on-the-go food market value (US$m), US and Europe, 2009
- Table 3: Retail on-the-go food market value CAGR, US and Europe, 2004-2009
- Table 4: Retail on-the-go meal occasions (m), US and Europe, 2004
- Table 5: Retail on-the-go meal occasions (m), US and Europe, 2009
- Table 6: Retail on-the-go meal occasions CAGR (%), US and Europe, 2004-2009
- Table 7: A top line analysis of US adult lunch locations
- Table 8: Annual missed mealtime occasions per capita, Europe and US, 2004
- Table 9: Favorite consumer breakfast options, US, 2005
- Table 10: Average commute times, Europe and US, 2003
- Table 11: Cereal bar market value (US$m), US and Europe, 1998-2008
- Table 12: How much consumers are willing to pay for time-saving products and services (% respondents), US and Europe
- Table 13: Global homeworking projections, by region and type, (m) 2005
- Table 14: Percentage change of lunch locations of 5-17 year-olds by country, 2004-2009
- Table 15: European and US consumers average time taken to prepare breakfasts, lunches, and evening meals, 2004
- Table 16: Change in daily per capita evening meal occasions, US and Europe, 2004-2009
- Table 17: At home alcoholic drinking occasions (m), 1999-2009
- Table 18: Health club members as % of population, selected major European markets & US, 2003-2008
- Table 19: Overweight or obese people by country, (% adults) 2004-2009
- Table 20: Top line analysis of attitude-behavior gaps in buying taste oriented foods in Europe and the US, 2004
- Table 21: European and US healthy on-the-go eating occasions (per head and total), 2004-2009
- Table 22: Number of annual meal occasions (bn) by daypart and country, 2004
- Table 23: Number of annual meal occasions (bn) by daypart and country, 2009
- Table 24: Total on-the-move food and drink market value by country (€m / $m), 1999-2009
- Table 25: Annual missed mealtime occasions per capita, Europe and US, 2009
- Table 26: The growth in missed mealtime occasions, Europe and US, 2004-2009
- Table 27: Percentage spread of lunch locations of 5-17 year-olds by country (% occasions), 2004
- Table 28: Percentage spread of lunch locations of 5-17 year-olds by country (% occasions), 2009
- Table 29: Detailed analysis of attitude-behavior gaps in buying taste oriented foods in Europe and the US, 2004
- Table 30: Global homeworking projections, by country and type, (m) 2005
- Table 31: Definitions
- Table 32: News Sources
- Table 33: Industry Sources
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Several mega-trends are driving growth in on-the-go meals
- Figure 2: Defining the on-the-go occasion
- Figure 3: Average household size is declining in the US and Europe
- Figure 4: Answers to the question "What differentiates a meal from a snack?"
- Figure 5: Consumers feel they now have less leisure time, 2005
- Figure 6: Time-saving products are important to US and European consumers
- Figure 7: The propensity to skip breakfast varies by age in US
- Figure 8: Average worked hours are declining in US and Europe
- Figure 9: The relative importance of eating needs varies by daypart
- Figure 10: Consumers find it hard to combine taste and health on-the-go for various reasons
- Figure 11: Trust in food and drinks nutrition claims varies by country
- Figure 12: Including cutlery facilitates on-the-go consumption
- Figure 13: One-handed foods enable multi-tasking
- Figure 14: Cupholder-sized formats appeal to commuters
- Figure 15: Consumers want a variety of OTG breakfast options
- Figure 16: Clear, consistent health messages simplify healthy eating
- Figure 17: Super premium OTG meal options can be fresh and tasty
- Figure 18: Consumers want health messages that permit occasional indulgences
- Figure 19: Current sports nutrition products are relatively basic
- Figure 20: Sports nutrition could develop from existing ready meals
- Figure 21: Self-heating is best employed in non-gourmet products
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