Content Summary

Retail Prepared Refrigerated Foods: The Market and Technologies

Chapter One: The Market

• Total supermarket sales for all categories (including branded and private-label prepackaged products, products "put up at store, and retail foodservice sales)
• InfoScan Review data from Information Resources, Inc. for all categories
• Shares of market held by leading manufacturers for all categories
• Forecasts of total market sales through 2005
• Shifts in supermarket department sales

Chapter Two: Entrée, Kit and Component Products

• Qualitative trends and factors driving the segment (entrees and dinners, value-added meat and poultry, pizza, pasta, sauces, and lunch kits)
• Retail and foodservice competitive set analysis
• Retail foodservice trends
• Detailed discussion of trends and factors affecting each product category
• Analysis of product withdrawals from major manufacturers

Chapter Three: Prepared Salads and Value-added Produce

• Marketing and technology trends and factors driving the segment
• Detailed discussion of trends and factors affecting each category
• Estimate of total retail and foodservice sales for each category
• The competitive set for value-added produce products

Chapter Four: Company Profiles

• Detailed discussions of the 11 leading prepared refrigerated foods suppliers
• Companies include: ConAgra, Del Monte, Dole, General Mills, Kraft, Nestle, Perdue, Performance Food Group, Reser's, SCIS Food Services, and Tyson.

Chapter Five: Current and Emerging Technologies

• Packaging technologies, such as MAP and active packaging systems
• Methods to assure food safety, including HACCP and superchill
• Thermal and nonthermal technologies, such as sous vide, irradiation, and ultra high pressure
• Formulation technologies, such as antioxidants and antimicrobial agents

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