The Top 10 Snacks Companies: Emerging opportunities, growth strategies and financial performance

Table of Contents

Executive summary

• Industry overview
• PepsiCo
• Kraft Foods
• Procter & Gamble (P&G)
• ConAgra Foods
• Calbee Foods
• Grupo Bimbo (Barcel)
• General Mills
• United Biscuits
• Yamazaki (Tohato)
• Snyder' s of Hanover (Snyder' s)

Chapter 1 Introduction

• Report overview
• Methodology

Chapter 2 Industry overview

• Summary
• Introduction
• Market dynamics
  • Global snacks market size by value
  • Snacks industry drivers and resistors
• Competitive landscape
  • Top 10 companies based on sales
  • Competitive positioning of the top 10 snacks companies
• Trends
  • Healthy snacks leading the way in a challenging economic environment
  • Shift towards private label snack foods
  • Rising prices of commodities

Chapter 3 PepsiCo

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Increasing focus on healthy snack foods to drive growth
  • Investing in emerging markets
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 4 Kraft Foods

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Innovation and promotional initiatives to drive long term growth
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 5 Procter & Gamble

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Diversifying customer base through launch of new variants of Pringles
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 6 ConAgra Foods

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Strengthening potato-based snacks capabilities to leverage growth
  • opportunities in the US
  • Rationalizing snacks operations to attain cost efficiency
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 7 Calbee Foods

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
• Growth strategies
  • Ensuring raw material supply for production facilities globally
  • Enhancing market share in the US healthy snacks arena
  • Retaining market share in Japan with healthy snacks
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 8 Grupo Bimbo (Barcel)

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
• Growth strategies
  • Penetrating the Mexican market through new product launches
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 9 General Mills

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Expanding nutritional snacks portfolio to foster growth
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 10 United Biscuits

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
• Growth strategies
  • Repositioning snack foods in the health and nutrition category
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 11 Yamazaki (Tohato)

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
  • Performance by business segment
• Growth strategies
  • Strengthening product portfolio in healthy snacks
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 12 Snyder' s

• Summary
• Company overview
• Recent financial performance
• Growth strategies
  • Consolidate share in niche pretzel market through product differentiation
  • Acquisitions and divestments
• SWOT analysis

Chapter 13 Other major players

• Want-Want
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Old Dutch Foods
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• San Carlo
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Sibirsky Bereg
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Frente (Koikeya)
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Utz Quality Foods (Utz)
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• J&J Snack Foods
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Yoki Alimentos
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance
• Lorenz Bahlsen Snack-World Holding (Lorenz Bahlsen)
  • Company overview
• Dr. August Oetker
  • Company overview
  • Recent financial performance

Appendix 118

• Glossary
• Index

List of Figures

• Figure 2.1: Global snacks market size by value ($bn), 2008 - 13
• Figure 2.2: Segmentation of global snacks market by product (%), 2008
• Figure 2.3: Global snacks industry drivers and resistors
• Figure 2.4: Top 10 snacks companies' growth, 2006 - 08
• Figure 3.5: PepsiCo financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Figure 3.6: PepsiCo SWOT analysis
• Figure 4.7: Kraft Foods financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Figure 4.8: Kraft Foods SWOT analysis
• Figure 5.9: P&G financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Figure 5.10: P&G SWOT analysis
• Figure 6.11: ConAgra Foods financial performance ($m), 2007 - 09
• Figure 6.12: ConAgra Foods SWOT analysis
• Figure 7.13: Calbee Foods SWOT analysis
• Figure 8.14: Grupo Bimbo (Barcel) financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Figure 8.15: Grupo Bimbo (Barcel) SWOT analysis
• Figure 9.16: General Mills financial performance ($m), 2005 - 09
• Figure 9.17: General Mills SWOT analysis
• Figure 10.18: United Biscuits financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Figure 10.19: United Biscuits SWOT analysis
• Figure 11.20: Yamazaki financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Figure 11.21: Yamazaki SWOT analysis
• Figure 12.22: Snyder' s SWOT analysis
• Figure 13.23: Want-Want financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Figure 13.24: San Carlo financial performance ($m), 2005 - 08
• Figure 13.25: Sibirsky Bereg financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Figure 13.26: J&J Snack Foods financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08

List of Tables

• Table 2.1: Global snacks market size by value ($bn), 2008 - 13
• Table 2.2: Performance of global snacks market by product ($bn), 2008
• Table 2.3: Top 10 snacks companies based on sales ($m), 2008
• Table 2.4: Top 10 snacks companies' growth, 2006 - 08
• Table 3.5: PepsiCo snapshot
• Table 3.6: PepsiCo financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Table 3.7: PepsiCo business segment performance ($m), 2008
• Table 3.8: Select healthy snacks brand in PepsiCo' s product portfolio
• Table 3.9: PepsiCo acquisitions, 2007 - 09
• Table 4.10: Kraft Foods snapshot
• Table 4.11: Kraft Foods financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Table 4.12: Kraft Foods business segment performance ($m), 2008
• Table 5.13: P&G snapshot
• Table 5.14: P&G financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Table 5.15: P&G business segment performance ($m), 2008
• Table 6.16: ConAgra Foods snapshot
• Table 6.17: ConAgra Foods financial performance ($m), 2007 - 09
• Table 6.18: ConAgra Foods business segment performance ($m), 2009
• Table 6.19: ConAgra Foods acquisitions, 2007 - 09
• Table 7.20: Calbee Foods snapshot
• Table 7.21: Calbee Foods financial performance, 2007 - 08
• Table 8.22: Grupo Bimbo (Barcel) snapshot
• Table 8.23: Grupo Bimbo (Barcel) financial performance, 2004 - 08
• Table 9.24: General Mills snapshot
• Table 9.25: General Mills financial performance ($m), 2005 - 09
• Table 9.26: General Mills business segment performance ($m), 2009
• Table 10.27: United Biscuits snapshot
• Table 10.28: United Biscuits financial performance, 2004 - 08
• Table 11.29: Yamazaki snapshot
• Table 11.30: Yamazaki financial performance, 2004 - 08
• Table 11.31: Yamazaki business segment performance, 2008
• Table 12.32: Snyder' s snapshot
• Table 13.33: Want-Want snapshot
• Table 13.34: Want-Want financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Table 13.35: Old Dutch Foods snapshot
• Table 13.36: San Carlo snapshot
• Table 13.37: San Carlo financial performance ($m), 2005 - 08
• Table 13.38: Sibirsky Bereg snapshot
• Table 13.39: Sibirsky Bereg financial performance ($m), 2006 - 08
• Table 13.40: Frente (Koikeya) snapshot
• Table 13.41: Utz snapshot
• Table 13.42: J&J Snack Foods snapshot
• Table 13.43: J&J Snack Foods financial performance ($m), 2004 - 08
• Table 13.44: Yoki Alimentos snapshot
• Table 13.45: Lorenz Bahlsen snapshot
• Table 13.46: Dr. August Oetker snapshot