Cooking ingredients and meals in Uganda performed well in 2024, supported by urbanisation, population growth, improving economic conditions and wider distribution. Rising prices shaped demand, as consumers prioritised lower-priced, including unpackaged, options.
Cooking ingredients and meals in 2024: The big picture
Cooking ingredients and meals in Uganda saw further strong price increases across packaged food in 2024, with food inflation hitting double-digits. This made consumers prioritise spend on essentials like edible oils, while limiting their consumption of non-essential products.
Country background
Urbanisation and strong urban retailing development, particularly the opening of new supermarkets and hypermarkets, improved access to packaged food. In turn, this widened awareness of many brands and products among urban consumers.
Socioeconomic trends
Uganda has a very young population, with the median age reaching 18-years-old in 2024. Similarly, 0-14-year-olds accounted for 44% of the total population at the end of the review period.
Logistics/infrastructure
While still underdeveloped, the improvements to the road network in the country allow better the distribution of cooking ingredients and meals. Infrastructure development is set to enable suppliers move deeper into previously remote or unreachable areas, including the islands along Lake Victoria.
What next for cooking ingredients and meals?
Inflationary pressures are expected to continue to impact household budgets and spend on packaged food. High inflation rates are predicted to persist in the country over the forecast period.
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Overview:
Understand the latest market trends and future growth opportunities for the Cooking Ingredients and Meals industry in Uganda with research from Euromonitor International's team of in-country analysts – experts by industry and geographic specialisation.
Key trends are clearly and succinctly summarised alongside the most current research data available. Understand and assess competitive threats and plan corporate strategy with our qualitative analysis, insight and confident growth projections.
Data and analysis in this report provides further detailed coverage dedicated to a comprehensive range of core packaged food categories.
If you're in the Cooking Ingredients and Meals industry in Uganda, our research will help you to make informed, intelligent decisions; to recognise and profit from opportunity, or to offer resilience amidst market uncertainty.
The Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Uganda report includes:
- Analysis of key supply-side and demand trends
- Detailed segmentation of international and local products
- Historic volume and value sizes, company and brand market shares
- Five year forecasts of market trends and market growth
- Robust and transparent research methodology, conducted in-country
This report answers:
- What is the market size of Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Uganda?
- Which are the leading brands in Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Uganda?
- How are products distributed in Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Uganda?
- How is the rise of e-commerce and/or the expansion of modern grocery retail impacting traditional retail?
- What are the key health and wellness concerns driving, or challenging, sales in Cooking Ingredients and Meals?
- How significant are vegan and vegetarian dietary requirements in determining sales growth in Uganda?
- How has COVID-19 impacted consumer demand? To what extent have lockdown, home seclusion and stockpiling boosted sales? Will the longer term economic repercussions of the pandemic stimulate or suppress future growth?
- Where is future growth expected to be most dynamic?
- How significant will values-based claims, such as sustainability and ethical labelling, be in supporting future growth and brand equity?
Cooking Ingredients and Meals in Uganda
Cooking ingredients and meals in 2024: The big picture
Country background
Socioeconomic trends
Logistics/infrastructure
What next for cooking ingredients and meals?
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The following categories and subcategories are included:
Cooking Ingredients and Meals
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- Olive Oil
- Corn Oil
- Palm Oil
- Rapeseed Oil
- Soy Oil
- Sunflower Oil
- Other Edible Oil
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- Dried Ready Meals
- Shelf Stable Ready Meals
- Chilled Ready Meals
- Frozen Ready Meals
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- Dry Soup
- Shelf Stable Soup
- Chilled Soup
- Frozen Soup
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- Chilled Pizza
- Frozen Pizza
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- Meal Kits
- Quick Recipe Kits
- Chilled Lunch Kits
- Prepared Salads
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- Liquid Stocks and Fonds
- Stock Cubes and Powders
- Gravy Cubes, Powders and Pots
- Monosodium Glutamate
- Herbs and Spices
- Tomato Pastes and Purées
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- Liquid Recipe Sauces (excl pasta sauces)
- Dry Recipe Sauces
- Pasta Sauces
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- Barbecue Sauces
- Fish Sauces
- Ketchup
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard
- Oyster Sauces
- Salad Dressings
- Soy Sauces
- Chili Sauces
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- Dips
- Yeast-based Spreads
- Pickled Products
- Other Sauces and Condiments
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- Honey
- Chocolate Spreads
- Jams and Preserves
- Nut and Seed Based Spreads
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