Butter Blocks Market Report 2025

This Butter Blocks market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The butter blocks market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $32.73 billion in 2024 to $34.5 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increasing consumer awareness of natural products, increasing disposable incomes, a rise in dairy production, a rise in global trade, and growth in consumer spending on food.

The butter blocks market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $42.01 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to growing awareness regarding the health benefits, rising demand for organic products, increasing consumer demand for high-quality dairy products, growing demand for versatile food products, and growing popularity of home baking. Major trends in the forecast period include technological advancements, natural and organic options, sustainable packaging innovations, flavor and ingredient diversification, and artisanal dairy products.

The butter blocks market is poised for growth due to rising demand for bakery products. Bakery products encompass a wide variety of items made and sold by bakeries. This demand is driven by efforts to enhance customer satisfaction, increasing interest in healthier options, and the diversification of product ranges. Butter blocks play a crucial role in bakery operations, used to create laminated doughs for pastries such as croissants and puff pastries, enrich doughs for items such as brioche and cookies, and improve the flavor and texture of pie crusts, tarts, and savory pastries.

Leading companies in the butter blocks market are actively innovating by introducing new products, such as sweet cream butter varieties, to strengthen their market positions. Sweet cream butter, made from fresh cream without fermentation, offers a mild, smooth flavor that is versatile for cooking, baking, and spreading. For instance, Land O'Lakes Inc. launched butter balls for cooking in June 2022. These pre-measured balls simplify cooking tasks, ensuring consistent results with Land O' Lakes' signature rich flavor and creamy texture, enhancing the overall cooking experience.

In March 2024, Lakeland Dairies Co-op Society Ltd. expanded its presence in the European butterfat sector through the acquisition of De Brandt Dairy International NV, a Belgium-based company specializing in butter and butter oil products. This strategic move aims to bolster Lakeland's product offerings, increase operational capabilities, and potentially access new distribution channels and markets.

Major companies operating in the butter blocks market are Danone S.A., Lactalis Group, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, Royal FrieslandCampina, Saputo Inc., Arla Foods amba, Kerry Group, Agropur Cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, Land O'Lakes Inc., Glanbia PLC, Schreiber Foods Inc., Emmi AG, Megmilk Snow Brand Co. Ltd., DMK Group, Ornua Co-operative Ltd., Associated Milk Producers Inc., California Dairies Inc., Grassland Dairy Products Inc., Anand Milk Union Limited, Eurial, Dairy Crest.

Asia-Pacific was the largest region in the butter blocks market in 2024. The regions covered in the butter blocks market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the butter blocks market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Butter blocks are large, rectangular slabs of butter primarily used in professional baking and cooking settings. They are commonly found in commercial kitchens, bakeries, and restaurants due to their convenient size and shape, which facilitate bulk usage.

The main types of butter blocks include salted, unsalted, and other varieties. Salted butter blocks contain added salt, typically around 1/4 teaspoon per 4 oz of butter. The salt not only enhances the butter's natural flavors but also serves as a preservative, prolonging its shelf life. These products are distributed through supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores, online retailers, and departmental stores. They find application in various culinary uses such as baking, cooking, spreading, and enhancing flavors.

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The butter blocks market consists of sales of sweet cream butter blocks, fermented butter blocks, grass-fed butter blocks, and infused butter blocks. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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