Frozen Foods are Here to Stay

By Marina Mayer

For some consumers, frozen foods may boast too much sodium, may contain too many “unhealthy” ingredients or may not be considered fresh enough.

But, despite what consumers say about frozen foods, they continue to spend dollars in the frozen foods aisles.

In honor of March being National Frozen Foods Month, Refrigerated & Frozen Foods presents to you its 17th annual Top 150 Frozen Foods Processors report (page 26), which breaks down the Top 25 frozen food processors in each of the six categories (meals/entrées, meat/poultry/seafood, dairy, snacks/appetizers/side dishes, bakery and fruits/vegetables).

I would like to personally thank all of the respondents who took the time to update their company information via our online portal. This year’s report garnered an overall 68% update rate across all six categories (34 companies are listed in more than one category).

The breakdown of updated profiles by category is as follows:

80% for meals and entrées
88% for meat, poultry and seafood
60% for dairy
64% for snacks, appetizers and side dishes
72% for bakery, and
44% for fruits and vegetables

Going straight to the source is a million times more credible than pulling information from the internet, so for that, I appreciate your cooperation.

New to this year’s report—go to page 40 to hear more from these leading frozen food processors on what challenges they continue to face in the industry and what opportunities for growth lie ahead.

Also new is an outline of what significant changes appear on this year’s report vs. last year’s. For example, a company changed its name, a new addition to the report, etc.

Want to see more from this report? How can we improve? What kind of facts and information would you like to see? Please share your feedback via our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/RandFF, tweet us at @RandFF or email me at mayerm@bnpmedia.com

Increasing sales and a good deal of mergers and acquisitions prove that frozen foods are here to stay.

Enjoy the report.

KEYWORDS: frozen foods frozen foods industry

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Marina Mayer was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods. Previously, she spent four years as managing editor and executive editor of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery and Dairy Foods, both sister publications. In this role, Mayer was responsible for reporting on market trends, ingredient R&D, production technology and new products within the dairy, snack food and wholesale bakery markets. Prior to joining BNP Media, she served a five-year tenure as editor of quality control for Manufacturers' News, Inc., where she was named “Manager of the Year” in 2006. Previously, she worked as an editorial assistant for Insider Magazine and worked as a contributing features writer for her college newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student. Mayer was a recipient of a Young Leader Scholar award, presented from American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), which is given annually to only five U.S. journalists, 30 years of age and under. She is a graduate of Indiana University with a bachelor’s in journalism.