The Confectionery Segment in United Kingdom registered a Market volume of 650.96 million kilograms in 2025
The indicator recorded a historical decline (CAGR) of 1.03% between 2022 to 2025, and is expected to grow by...
GlobalData projects the indicator to grow at a CAGR of...
Market volume of Confectionery products in the UK recorded an YoY growth in 2021
Market volume of confectionery products in the UK recorded a YoY decline in 2019, followed by a strong growth between 2019-2021.
Confectionery covers all chocolate-based products, all bubble and chewing gum, sugar-based confectionery items including hard boiled sweets, mints, caramels & toffees, gums and jellies, marshmallows, fudges and medicated throat lozenges.
Five forces analysis
The confectionery market will be analyzed taking manufacturers of chocolates, gum and sugar confectionery as players. The key buyers will be taken as retailers, and cocoa farmers and other raw material producers as the key suppliers.
The UK confectionery market experienced moderate growth during 2015-2019. Players in this market are often quite diversified, but generally tend to depend heavily on the food and beverage market. This, and the low cost of switching for end consumers, drives rivalry, although the latter can be mitigated to some extent by strong branding. Overall, the degree of rivalry in this market is assessed to be moderate
Buyers in the confectionery market range from small independent retailers to large, often multinational supermarket and hypermarket chains. With extensive distribution infrastructure and financial muscle, larger buyers are able to exert a strong degree of power; in turn, due to the high importance of branding in the market, these buyers are heavily influenced by consumer demand.
Market trends
Hypermarkets & supermarkets is the leading channel in the distribution of confectionery in the country. Mondelez International Inc, Mars Incorporated, and Nestlé SA, Inc are the top three companies in the UK confectionery sector. Flexible packaging is the most commonly used pack material in the UK confectionery sector.
Dairy Milk (owned by Mondelez) is the most popular brand in the UK confectionery market in 2019. Furthermore, Galaxy and Extra (both owned by Mars) are also top brands in the same year.
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