The Fish Segment in United Kingdom registered a Market volume of 2.84 million units in 2025
The indicator recorded a historical growth (CAGR) of 0.27% between 2022 to 2025, and is expected to grow by...
GlobalData projects the indicator to grow at a CAGR of...
The market volume of Fish market in the UK recorded a single digit YoY growth in 2021
The fish market in the UK experienced a significant growth during 2018-2021. Increasing trend of choosing healthier food products such as fish and seafood among consumers driving the growth of the market.
The fish market consists of the retail sale of ambient fish, frozen fish, fresh fish, chilled raw packaged fish – processed, chilled raw packaged fish - whole cuts and dried fish. Market volume is defined as the total number of transactions.
Five forces analysis
The fish & seafood market will be analyzed taking food processing companies as players. The key buyers will be taken as wholesalers, food brokers, food processors, retailers, and caterers of fish & seafood, and fisheries and fish farmers, producers of packaging and other raw materials as the key suppliers.
Hypermarkets and supermarkets are the main distribution channel in the UK fish & seafood market. Though retailers are unlikely to be swayed by brand loyalty, they are compelled to stock brands preferred by consumers. Buyer power in this market is driven up by low switching costs.
Leading companies must maintain product quality if they are to maintain their brand equity in the long term. However, the lack of differentiation in commodity inputs weakens supplier power.
Competitive landscape
The UK fish and seafood market has experienced strong value growth and moderate volume growth in recent years. Lion Capital is the leading player in the sector in value terms, while Nomad Foods and Thai Union Group Public Company accounted for the second and third largest value shares, respectively, in 2019. Moreover, Lion Capital witnessed the highest increase in value share during 2015–2019.
Popular brands
Young's (owned by Lion Capital) is the most popular brand in the UK fish and seafood market in 2019. Furthermore, Birds Eye (owned by Nomad Foods) and John West (owned by Thai Union Group Public Company) are also top brands in the same year.
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