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Article: Global industry snack food trends.(Snack Food Association an International Trade Association: serving the international snack food industry)(Brief Article)
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- Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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For this report, the snack food industry sector consists of establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing of salted snacks, such as potato chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, popped popcorn, pretzels and similar snacks and salted and roasted nuts and seeds. The snack food industry sector also includes consumer-ready packaged chocolate and non-chocolate candies, cookies and crackers, unpopped popcorn, and meat snacks.
Over the past decade, the world snack food market has grown more than 25% and reached an estimated $60 billion in 2002. The United States continues to be the largest market, accounting for about a third of the world's total. Following the U.S. are ...