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Meals and Soups in the United Arab Emirates

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  • 21 Pages
  • November 2025
  • Region: United Arab Emirates
  • Euromonitor International
  • ID: 5731830
Meals and soups in the United Arab Emirates is seeing rising retail value sales in 2025, as busy consumers increasingly opt for ready meals, soups, meal kits and pizza for quick, easy solutions. Health-conscious shoppers are driving demand for cleaner labels, organic ingredients and options with reduced sodium, as well as high-protein, plant-based and gluten-free propositions.

This report offers in-depth knowledge of the market at a national level, providing local insight and understanding unavailable elsewhere. In addition to the latest retail sales data 2020-2025, it identifies the leading companies, brands and retail outlets, and assesses the key trends and demographic shifts behind consumer demand and sales growth. How key trends such as health and wellness, sustainability and recovery from the pandemic are currently shaping the market along with prospects for the next five years, clearly indicating how the market is expected to change.

Product coverage: Food Kits, Pizza, Prepared Salads, Ready Meals, Soup.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

Why buy this report?

  • Get a detailed picture of the Meals and Soups market;
  • Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
  • Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands;
  • Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.

Table of Contents

KEY DATA FINDINGS
2025 DEVELOPMENTS
  • Convenience demand, health priorities and private label expansion support value growth
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Convenience demand spurs growth in meals and soups as consumers seek quick and easy solutions
  • Alliance Food Company enters ready meals
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Health to remain major trend impacting progress for meals and soups
  • Private label set to gain further share in chilled ready meals
  • Sustainability to take centre stage
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • Nestlé maintains overall leadership
  • Meal kits brand Hello Chef receives B-Corp certification
CHANNELS
  • Hypermarkets remains favoured channel for meals and soups purchases
  • E-commerce sees fastest expansion in 2025
CATEGORY DATA
  • Table 1 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 2 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 3 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 4 Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 5 Sales of Chilled Ready Meals by Ethnicity: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 6 Sales of Frozen Ready Meals by Ethnicity: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 7 Sales of Soup by Leading Flavours: Rankings 2020-2025
  • Table 8 NBO Company Shares of Meals and Soups: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 9 LBN Brand Shares of Meals and Soups: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 10 Distribution of Meals and Soups by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 11 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 12 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 13 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 14 Forecast Sales of Meals and Soups by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMERCOOKING INGREDIENTS AND MEALS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Health, convenience and value-seeking behaviour steer industry development
KEY DATA FINDINGS
INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE
  • Current trends drive industry growth in 2025
  • Sustainability concerns inform product innovation
  • Cost-conscious behaviour becomes more visible in 2025
WHAT’S NEXT?
  • Health trends to support further expansion for cooking ingredients and meals
  • Climate change may present challenges to stronger growth
  • Hypermarkets will remain on top, but e-commerce will rise fastest among distribution channels
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • IFFCO maintains overall leadership in 2025
  • Players compete through differentiation
CHANNELS
  • Hypermarkets leads distribution
  • E-commerce and foodservice channels enjoy further growth
MARKET DATA
  • Table 15 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Volume 2020-2025
  • Table 16 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Value 2020-2025
  • Table 17 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Volume Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 18 Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Value Growth 2020-2025
  • Table 19 NBO Company Shares of Cooking Ingredients and Meals: % Value 2021-2025
  • Table 20 LBN Brand Shares of Cooking Ingredients and Meals: % Value 2022-2025
  • Table 21 Penetration of Private Label by Category: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 22 Distribution of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Format: % Value 2020-2025
  • Table 23 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Volume 2025-2030
  • Table 24 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: Value 2025-2030
  • Table 25 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Volume Growth 2025-2030
  • Table 26 Forecast Sales of Cooking Ingredients and Meals by Category: % Value Growth 2025-2030
COUNTRY REPORTS DISCLAIMER
SOURCES
  • Summary 1 Research Sources