Profit Foodservice in Japan

Datamonitor's Profit Foodservice in Japan industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the profit foodservice industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation
• Provides textual analysis of the industry's recent performance and future prospects
• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
• The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics
• Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

• Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume
• Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market's competitive landscape

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Market Definition

Foodservice is defined as the sale of food and drinks for immediate consumption either on the premises from which they were bought, or in designated eating areas shared with other foodservice operators, or in the case of takeaways transactions, freshly prepared food for immediate consumption. Datamonitor's definition excludes sales through vending machines and is restricted to sales in specific foodservice channels (please see channel definitions below).

Various channels have been grouped together in what is called the "Profit sector" - this sector is characterised by the fact that no subsidy is paid (either directly or indirectly) to anyone participating in the foodservice transaction.

That is that neither the consumer nor the foodservice operator receives any subsidy. This includes the following channels - cafes, pubs & bars, nightclubs, full service restaurants, quick service restaurants, takeaways, hotels and lodging, street & mobile vendors, retail locations, leisure locations, on-board locations.

All sector values are given in Operator Buying Prices that is the amount spent by foodservice operators on the food and drink that they serve and not the amount the consumers spend on food and drinks (Operator Selling Prices - OSPs) in these channels. The difference is the mark up the foodservice operator adds in order to cover their other costs and generate a profit. This therefore values the sector in terms of the amount of money for which food and drinks manufacturers are competing. Sector volumes are classed as the total number of visits by individuals to foodservice locations that involve the consumption of either food, or drink, or both.

As such, if several people visit one location at once and there is only one bill (e.g. a group dining in a restaurant), the number of transactions is counted as being one for each person in the group. Multiple purchases made during the same visit (e.g. a person buys several drinks bought over a period of time in a bar) are counted as one transaction. The purchase of drink with food in the same location in the same visit is also considered as one transaction, not two. The sector consists of the total revenues generated by caf?(C)s, pubs, clubs, nightclubs, restaurants, takeaways, hotels & lodgings, street & mobile vendors, retail vendors, leisure vendors and on-board vendors - defined as food sold on board air, rail, sea or coach traveling vehicles.

All currency conversions were carried out at constant 2008 average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report Asia-Pacific is deemed to comprise of Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

1.2 Research Highlights

The Japanese profit foodservice sector generated total revenues of $55.7 billion in 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0% for the period spanning 2004-2008.

The restaurants segment was the sector's most lucrative in 2008, generating total revenues of $22.6 billion, equivalent to 40.5% of the sector's overall value.

The performance of the sector is forecast to increase slightly, with an anticipated CAGR of 0.1% for the five-year period 2008-2013, which is expected to drive the sector to a value of $55.9 billion by the end of 2013.