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Home » Retail Meat, Poultry, & Seafood

Retail Meat, Poultry, & Seafood

 

 

State of the Industry

 

Top 10 Frozen Meat Substitutes


Rank Vendors Dollar Sales Dollar Sales % Chg YAgo Dollar Share of Type Dollar Share of type Chg YAgo Unit Sales
1 Kellogg Co. $230,231,440 (0.80) 55.36 (3.35) 54,951,248
2 Lightlife Foods Inc $31,061,458 14.48 7.47 0.60 8,075,213
3 Kraft Foods Group Inc. $29,637,808 (0.12) 7.13 (0.38) 8,681,406
4 Gardein Protein International Inc. $27,868,462 56.35 6.70 2.19 6,304,812
5 Turtle Island Foods Inc. $19,512,334 2.35 4.69 (0.13) 4,725,693
6 Vitasoy USA Inc. (Nasoya Foods) $9,830,980 49.23 2.36 0.70 3,110,695
7 Private Label $7,084,733 21.03 1.70 0.22 2,040,470
8 Amy's Kitchen Inc. $6,618,666 5.45 1.59 0.00 1,230,372
9 Field Roast Grain Meat Co. $6,245,479 101.05 1.50 0.72 1,118,446
10 Wholesome & Hearty Foods $5,709,785 (41.43) 1.37 (1.09) 1,420,468

Source: Information Resources, Inc. Represents the latest 52 weeks ending Apr 17. Total U.S. multi-outlet (supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries and select club & dollar retail chains).

Top 10 Frozen Meat


Rank Vendors Dollar Sales Dollar Sales % Chg YAgo Dollar Share of Type Dollar Share of type Chg YAgo Unit Sales
1 Private Label $602,643,520 5.16 35.06 1.86 65,542,468
2 Bubba Foods LLC $142,723,072 6.71 8.30 0.55 10,798,164
3 Home Market Foods Inc. $76,961,192 39.33 4.48 1.28 13,594,984
4 Quaker Maid Meats Inc. $71,658,056 (4.15) 4.17 (0.16) 10,354,664
5 Jensen Meat Co., Inc. $68,777,040 (18.70) 4.00 (0.90) 3,012,593
6 Steak Umm LLC $48,845,288 (3.63) 2.84 (0.09) 7,991,340
7 Hillshire Brands Co. $42,697,812 (22.38) 2.48 (0.70) 4,930,298
8 Johnsonville Sausage LLC $40,827,132 25.22 2.37 0.49 6,818,992
9 Wis-Pak Foods $40,808,356 16.91 2.37 0.35 1,918,863
10 Advancepierre Foods Inc. $39,488,180 (15.22) 2.30 (0.40) 4,522,026

Source: Information Resources, Inc. Represents the latest 52 weeks ending Apr 17. Total U.S. multi-outlet (supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries and select club & dollar retail chains).

Top 10 Refrigerated Sliced Deli Meat


Rank Vendors Dollar Sales Dollar Sales % Chg YAgo Dollar Share of Type Dollar Share of type Chg YAgo Unit Sales
1 Kraft Foods Group Inc. $2,062,904,704 0.35 37.31 0.30 534,892,608
2 Private Label $989,167,936 (3.68) 17.89 (0.60) 236,062,416
3 Hillshire Brands Co. $597,997,056 (3.97) 10.82 (0.39) 142,212,576
4 Land O'Frost Inc. $440,226,208 0.92 7.96 0.11 109,480,056
5 Bar-S Foods Co. $199,366,432 2.52 3.61 0.11 114,020,496
6 Carl Buddig & Co. $162,920,560 3.27 2.95 0.11 151,970,144
7 Hormel Foods LLC $122,355,024 (3.93) 2.21 (0.08) 32,403,476
8 Armour Eckrich Meats LLC $112,336,696 (0.36) 2.03 0.00 43,662,488
9 Applegate Farms Inc. $108,763,552 9.77 1.97 0.18 19,611,638
10 Boars Head Provisions Co. (Brunckhorst) $61,696,088 26.25 1.12 0.24 11,012,840

Source: Information Resources, Inc. Represents the latest 52 weeks ending Apr 17. Total U.S. multi-outlet (supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries and select club & dollar retail chains).

Top 10 Refrigerated Seafood


Rank Vendors Dollar Sales Dollar Sales % Chg YAgo Dollar Share of Type Dollar Share of type Chg YAgo Unit Sales
1 Private Label $83,660,832 4.90 14.63 0.36 16,609,507
2 Trans-Ocean Products Inc. $57,230,968 1.60 10.01 (0.07) 21,022,148
3 Vita Food Prods Inc. $36,678,692 0.05 6.41 (0.15) 5,651,238
4 Louis Kemp Seafood Co. $29,773,102 (0.88) 5.21 (0.17) 10,432,134
5 Acme Smoked Fish $28,335,538 12.08 4.96 0.43 3,576,364
6 Ocean Beauty Seafoods LLC $25,601,724 (0.40) 4.48 (0.12) 3,487,423
7 Tampa Bay Fisheries Inc. $23,677,318 (5.11) 4.14 (0.33) 1,560,474
8 Chicken of the Sea International $20,399,198 (6.09) 3.57 (0.32) 1,444,236
9 Seafood America $18,563,000 4.44 3.25 0.07 2,943,481
10 Ducktrap River Fish Farm $17,562,012 5.56 3.07 0.09 2,133,390

Source: Information Resources, Inc. Represents the latest 52 weeks ending Apr 17. Total U.S. multi-outlet (supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries and select club & dollar retail chains).

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