Ingredients and Packaging

Understand ingredients and packaging across global markets. Track ingredient adoption and packaging performance to identify opportunities in the industry, FMCG packaging market and packaging industry including sustainable packaging and types of packaging.

Turning ingredient and packaging insight into advantage

Businesses rely on our ingredients and packaging data to make confident strategic choices—from optimising product formulations to selecting the right pack formats for regulation, cost and sustainability goals. With coverage across 300+ FMCG categories, our research helps you understand which ingredients and packaging types are gaining traction, where demand is shifting and how innovations shape future market opportunities. Access an unbiased view of industry trends and actionable insight that support R&D, category planning, manufacturing and commercial growth across the ingredients and packaging industry.

Our expertise

Spot whitespace opportunities

Benchmark your total addressable market against competitors and pinpoint whitespace opportunities to fuel strategic growth and target new business more effectively.

Prioritise high-growth markets

Use market size and volume growth data to pinpoint the most promising regions and categories, helping you focus resources on the opportunities with the strongest potential.

Understand consumer demand

Track purchasing habits to understand what consumers expect from packaging and ingredients in each category and assess the competitive landscape to guide stronger marketing and sales strategies.

Category intelligence that drives better decisions

Ingredients Industry Page

Access to 48 ingredient categories with detailed sub‑category breakdowns across global markets.

  • Ingredients by product
  • Products by ingredient

Use our insight‑driven analysis to understand the forces shaping demand for ingredients. 

  • Company profiles 
  • Market sizes
  • Volume sales 

Our insights support decision-making across teams and functions. 

  • Strategy: Strategic planning; Consumer insights; M&A
  • Marketing: Category teams; Brand teams; Channel development
  • Commercial: Country managers; Business development; Sales teams; Revenue management
  • R&D: Product development; Innovation
  • Corporate: Investor relations; Annual reports; IPOs 

Packaging Industry Page

We analyse packaging across five categories with detailed sub‑category breakdowns spanning beauty and personal care, beverages, pet food, home care and packaged food.

  • Up to 20 years of comparable data
  • 15 years of historic data and 5 year forecasts 
  • Packaging in units and filled volume 
  • Breakdown by pack type and pack size, additional view by pack size band 

Use our insight‑driven analysis to understand how packaging formats, materials and volumes are evolving. 

  • Sales by closure type
  • Packaging class breakdown into primary and secondary 

Our insights support decision-making across teams and functions. 

  • Strategy: Strategic planning; Consumer insights; M&A
  • Marketing: Category teams; Brand teams; Channel development
  • Commercial: Country managers; Business development; Sales teams; Revenue management
  • R&D: Product development; Innovation
  • Corporate: Investor relations; Annual reports; IPOs 

Solutions to help you understand industry trends and drivers

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Our research answers your biggest questions:

  • Which sustainability claims, materials and pack formats matter most to consumers today?
  • How are regulation, cost pressures and circularity targets reshaping decisions?
  • Which ingredient trends and product innovations are gaining traction across categories and markets?
  • How can we benchmark performance and validate strategy across global ingredient and packaging markets?

 

What can you expect:

  • An expert will reach out to schedule a demo and gain a deeper understanding of your business needs
  • Experience a personalised walkthrough of the platform
  • We’ll follow up with a tailored solution and clear next steps

Explore our insights

Demand-Driven Botanicals: Mapping Ingredient Growth and Evolving BPC Trends

Botanical ingredients continue to play a central role in product formulation and innovation as consumers increasingly recognise the natural benefits associated with plant-based extracts and healthier positioning. However, it is not enough to track which ingredients are rising in popularity from the supply side; understanding which botanicals are used at the product level and in which countries and categories they appear provides a clearer view of what trends are here to stay.
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