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Market Research Report

Childhood Obesity - UK - June 2007

Published by Mintel International Group Ltd, Contact us : +1-860-674-8796
Published 2007/06 Content info  
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Table of Contents

Issues in the Market

  • Market themes
  • Definitions
  • Key themes

Market in Brief

  • Not so little Britain
  • The government weighs in
  • What the food industry did next
  • Whose fault is it anyway?
  • Consumers respond to health messages
  • Redefining the food industry

Internal Market Environment

  • Key Points
  • Changing childhood lifestyles
  • Parental paranoia
  • Real play...
  • ...vs virtual play
    • Figure 1: 7-16-year-olds who watch satellite/cable/digital TV, and those who play computer games consoles/hand held games, 2002-06
  • Sedentary lifestyles
  • Sport on the timetable...
  • …exercise increasingly squeezed out
  • New parenting models
  • Media influence is growing
  • Back to school
  • Natural rhythm of the day has broken down…
  • …and real cooking skills are waning…
  • … while virtual cooking skills are on the rise

Broader Market Environment

  • Key points
  • Soaring levels of obesity
    • Figure 2: Current and projected levels of obesity among UK children by age and gender, 2003 and 2010
  • By parental weight
    • Figure 3: Current and projected levels of obesity among UK children by parental weight and gender, 2003 and 2010
  • Fewer children...
    • Figure 4: Changes in UK population, boys and girls, 2002-12
  • …but more of them are obese
  • Adult population moving upmarket
    • Figure 5: Changes in socio-economic status, 2002-12
  • The great divide
  • ABs have greater literacy in parenting skills…
  • …which affects their children' s lifestyle
  • Working women are on the rise
    • Figure 6: Employed women (million), 2002-12
  • Government initiatives
  • School initiatives

Brand Communication and Promotion

  • Key points
  • Advertising food and drink to children
  • Background
  • TV advertising
  • Other media
  • Marketing to children - voluntary codes
  • Implications

Market Profiles

  • Key points
  • Chocolate confectionery
    • Figure 8: UK retail value sales of chocolate confectionery, at current prices, 2002-06
  • Premium end props up chocolate
  • Chocolate in meltdown
  • Carbonates
    • Figure 9: UK on- and off-trade sales of carbonates, by volume and value, at current prices, 2002-06
  • Bubbles lose fizz
  • The future' s flat
  • Sweet biscuits
    • Figure 10: UK retail volume and value sales of sweet biscuits, at current prices, 2002-07
  • Some small growth
  • Top end biscuits
  • Fruits
    • Figure 11: UK retail value sales of fruits, at current prices, 2002-06
  • Healthy growth
  • Room to bloom
  • Yogurts
    • Figure 12: UK retail value sales of yogurts, at current prices, 2002-06
  • Health messages boost yogurt
  • Yogurt snacks

The Future

  • Key points
  • Changing attitudes…
  • …and purchasing behaviours
  • Fruity fun
  • Fruit segments
  • Sweet treats
  • Chocolate rationing
  • Rich pickings for health

Social Issues Surrounding Obesity

  • Key points
  • Rise in eating disorders
    • Figure 13: Overeating, obesity and anorexia, bulimia: close friends involved, other people of their age involved and most common among young people of their age, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Other people' s problems
  • Girls are the experts

Consumer 1 - Competitive Context - What Do Children Spend Their Money On?

  • Key points
  • Pocket money
    • Figure 14: Total amount of money received in a week, 7-14-year-olds, 2002-06
  • More cash
  • Older children get more
    • Figure 15: Total amount of money received in a week, 7-14-year-olds, 2006
  • 15-16s
    • Figure 16: Total amount of money received in a month, 15-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • But less value
  • How money is spent?
    • Figure 17: How money is spent, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Electronic influence
  • Weekly spend per category
    • Figure 18: Average weekly spend per category, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
  • Going out is most important

Consumer 2 - Children' s Attitudes to Foods

  • Key points
    • Figure 19: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Sweets losing appeal?
  • Young ABs are less sweet
  • Teens opt for bed not breakfast
  • Attitudes to eating
    • Figure 20: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Health message getting through
  • Food rebels
  • Food is a boy/girl thing
    • Figure 21: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 11-16-year-olds, 2006

The Consumer 3 - Changing Eating Habits

  • Key points
  • Various foods/snacks
    • Figure 22: Consumption of various foods/snacks, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • No change in snack favourites
  • Crisps
    • Figure 23: Weekly consumption of packets of crisps by 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Crunch time for crisps
  • Snack attack
  • Chocolate and biscuits
    • Figure 24: Frequency of consumption of biscuits & chocolate, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
  • Children stay sweet on snacks
  • Chocolate dipping
  • Biscuit snackers stay faithful
  • Who' s eating habits are changing?
  • Crisps and chocolate suffer…
  • … while cereal bars decline
  • Who' s buying?
    • Figure 25: Who buys most selected foods, 7-16-year-olds, 2006
  • Parents foot the snack bill
  • Parental purchasing on the up
  • Self-purchase is greater amongst older children
  • C2DEs parents are playing catch up
  • Drinking habits
    • Figure 26: Consumption of various drinks, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Drinks get healthy
  • Water is cool
  • Fizzy drinks
    • Figure 27: Weekly consumption of fizzy drinks, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Fizz goes pop
  • Changing children' s consumption habits
  • Who is buying?
    • Figure 28: Who buys most selected drinks, 7-16-year-olds, 2006
  • Pop out, fruit juice in
  • Changing purchasing behaviour
  • Kids and parents reject fizz
  • Foods and favourite foods eaten
    • Figure 29: Foods eaten and liked best, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Back to basics
  • Children of upmarket consumers eat more healthily
    • Figure 30: Propensity to eat vegetables by gender, age and socio-economic status, 2006
  • Older children still eating unhealthy foods
    • Figure 31: Propensity to eat frozen beefburgers by gender, age, and socio-economic status, 2006

The Consumer 4 - Out of Home Food Eating Habits

  • Key points
  • Burger and pizza places
    • Figure 32: 7-10-year-olds who visit burger bars and pizza places, 2002-06
  • Burger bars and fast food places
    • Figure 33: 11-16-year-olds who visit fast food places and pizza places, 2002-06
  • Pizzas take greater slice
  • Bad news for burgers
  • Who eats where

Appendix

  • Consumer research
  • Abbreviations
  • Internal market environment
    • Figure 40: 7-16-year-olds who watch satellite/cable/digital TV, and those who play computer games consoles/hand-held games, by gender, age, socio-economic group and region, 2006
    • Figure 41: Average amount of time spent playing sports per week (outside of school or in their own leisure time), 7-10s by gender, age, socio-economic group and region, 2002-06
    • Figure 42: Average amount of time spent playing sports per week (outside of school or in their own leisure time), 11-16s by demographic sub-group, 2002-06
    • Figure 43: Agreement with the statement ‘I think children should eat what they are given’, 2002-06
    • Figure 44: Agreement with the statement ‘I think children should eat what they are given’, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 45: Agreement with the statement ‘I find it difficult to say no to my kids’, 2002-06
    • Figure 46: Agreement with the statement ‘I find it difficult to say no to my kids’, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 47: Age of child population, 2002-12
  • Broader market environment
    • Figure 48: Current and projected levels of obesity among UK children, by region and gender, 2002 and 2010
  • Social issues surrounding obesity
    • Figure 49: Overeating, obesity and anorexia, bulimia, close friends involved, other people of their age involved and most common among young people of their age, 11-16-year-olds, by gender, age, socio-economic group and region, 2006
  • Consumer 1 - The Competitive Context - What do children spend their money on?
  • Pocket money
    • Figure 50: Total amount of money received in a week, 7-14-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 51: Total amount of money received in a week, 7-14-year-olds, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 52: Total amount of money received in a month, 15-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 53: Total amount of money received in a month, 15-16-year-olds, by demographic sub-group, 2006
  • How is money spent?
    • Figure 54: How money is spent, 7-10-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 55: How money is spent, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Weekly spend per category
    • Figure 56: Average weekly spend per category, 11-14-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 57: Average weekly spend per category, 15-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • The Consumer 2 - Children' s Attitudes to Food
    • Figure 58: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 7-16-year-olds, by gender, age, socio-economic group and region, 2006
    • Figure 59: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 11-16-year-olds, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 60: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 11-16-year-olds, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 61: Agreement with attitude statements on food, 11-16-year-olds, by demographic sub-group, 2006
  • The Consumer 3 - Changing Food Habits
  • Various foods/snacks
  • Crisps
    • Figure 62: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Biscuits
    • Figure 63: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 64: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Chocolate
    • Figure 65: Frequency of consumption of chocolate, 7-10-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 66: Frequency of consumption of chocolate, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 67: Who buys most of the chocolate that 7-16-year-olds eat, 2002-06
  • Sweets
    • Figure 68: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Cereal bars
    • Figure 69: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 70: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Ice-cream bar
    • Figure 71: Frequency of consumption and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Cereal
    • Figure 72: Frequency of consumption of cereal, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Pot snacks
    • Figure 73: Frequency of consumption of pot snacks, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 74: Who buys most of the pot snacks that 11-16-year-olds eat, 2002-06
  • Yogurt
    • Figure 75: Frequency of consumption of yogurt, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Ready to eat desserts
    • Figure 76: Frequency of consumption of ready to eat desserts, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 77: Consumption of crisps/savoury snacks, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-16s, 2002-06
    • Figure 78: Consumption of chocolate, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-10s, 2002-06
    • Figure 79: Consumption of chocolate, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 11-16s, 2002-06
    • Figure 80: Consumption of cereal bars, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 11-16s, 2002-06
    • Figure 81: Who buys most of the crisps/savoury snacks that 7-16-year-olds eat, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 2002-06
    • Figure 82: Who buys most of the chocolate that 7-16-year-olds eat, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 2002-06
    • Figure 83: Who buys most of the cereal bars that 11-16-year-olds eat, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 2002-06
  • Drinking habits
    • Figure 84: Frequency of consumption of flavoured milk and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 85: Frequency of consumption of fruit juice drinks and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 86: Frequency of consumption of fizzy drinks and who buys most, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 87: Frequency of consumption of energy and sports drinks and who buys most, 15-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 88: Frequency of consumption of hot drinks, 11-16-year-olds, 2002-06
    • Figure 89: Consumption of fruit juice & juice drinks, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-16s, 2002-06
    • Figure 90: Consumption of fizzy drinks, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-16s, 2002-06
    • Figure 91: Who buys most of the small cartons/bottles of fruit juice/juice drinks that 7-16-year-olds drink, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 2002-06
    • Figure 92: Who buys most of the cans/small bottles of fizzy drinks that 7-16-year-olds drink, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 2002-06
  • Favourite foods - Foods eaten and liked best
    • Figure 93: Foods eaten and liked best, 7-16-year-olds, 2002-06
  • Unhealthy foods eaten
    • Figure 94: Selected foods eaten, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-16s, 2002-06
  • Healthy foods eaten
    • Figure 95: Selected foods eaten, by gender, age, region and socio-economic group, 7-16s, 2002-06
  • The Consumer 4 - Out of home food eating habits
    • Figure 96: 7-10-year-olds who visit burger bars and pizza places, by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 97: 7-10-year-olds who visit burger bars and pizza places, 2002-06
  • Fast food places and pizza places
    • Figure 98: 11-16-year-olds who visit fast food places and pizza places, 2002-06
    • Figure 99: 11-16-year-olds who visit fast food places and pizza places, by demographic sub-group, 2006
  • The Consumer 5 - Food Cluster Analysis - 11-16s
    • Figure 100: Cluster groups by demographic sub-group, 2006
    • Figure 101: Cluster groups by lifestyle statements, 2006
    • Figure 102: Cluster groups by consumption of various foods/snacks, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 103: Cluster groups by frequency of consumption and who buys most, for selected foods/snacks, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 104: Cluster groups by foods eaten and liked best, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 105: Cluster groups by consumption of various drinks, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 106: Cluster groups by frequency of consumption and who buys most, for selected drinks, 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 107: Cluster groups by overeating, obesity and anorexia, bulimia, close friends involved, other people of their age involved and most common among young people of their age), 11-16-year-olds, 2006
    • Figure 108: Cluster groups by satellite/cable/digital TV viewing and playing of computer games consoles/hand held games, 2006
    • Figure 109: 11-16-year-olds who visit fast food places and pizza places, by cluster groups, 2006
    • Figure 110: Cluster groups by total amount of money received in a week, 11-14s, 2006
    • Figure 111: Cluster groups by total amount of money received in a month, 15-16s, 2006
  • Consumer 6 - Parental attitudes
  • Weight perception
    • Figure 112: Concern about levels of own weight, by detailed demographics
    • Figure 113: Levels of concern with childhood obesity, February 2007
  • The Consumer 7 - Attitudes to childhood obesity
    • Figure 114: Attitudes towards childhood obesity, by detailed demographics, February 2007
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