Meal Service Market 2012
Language:
Japanese
Product Code No:
C54203100
Issued In:
2012/07
#of Pages:
463
Publication Cycle:
Biannual
Format:
PDF
Geographic Coverage:
Japan
Industry:
Coverage: (Product/service)
Meal service for offices, hospitals, schools, nursing care facilities and deliveries
Research Target:
Meal service providers
Research Content:
I Market Trends
1. Changes in 4400-billion-yen meal service market
2. Increase and decrease in number of meal service facilities
3. Elderly people are moving (out from their family) due to aged society and nursing care system
4. Popularity of “table for two”
5. Enhancing nutritional management in order to take measures of metabolic syndrome
6. Growing market of healthy lunch boxes and therapeutic foods
7. Rising usage rate of pay nursing homes
8. Full entrance of Co-op, food-service or retail distribution companies to meal service market
9. Enhancement of clinical nutrition caused by addition of NST
10. Sound growth in dysphagia, swallowing difficulty and medical examination food market
11. Enhancement of dietary education, enlightenment of local production for local consumption, and private-sector-provided services at meal service market for kindergarten and schools
II Market Analysis and Prospects
1. Entire market (FY2007 to FY2011): Back up from welfare services helped the entire market to hold up in spite of delayed recovery from recession
2. Meal service at on-site offices: Bottomed out in FY2009, declined again in FY2011
3. Bento-style meal services: Steady growth in home-delivery service for elderly
4. Hospital meal services: Outsourcing has grown to around 40%
5. Elderly nursing facility meal service: Market has grown by 3%, though newly-built nursery homes have decreased
6. School meal services: Using of private sectors have rapidly increased at a pace faster than expected
7. Meal services for kindergarten and childcare centers: Market is activating due to expected lifting of a ban to cook outside
8. Sales ranking among leading meal service companies
9. Meal service supplier ranking
III Marketing Strategy by Leading Meal Service Companies
1. Business scheme
2. Cooking and processing methods and state of central kitchen (taking measures against planned outage and electricity saving)
3. Creation of new menu, food material procurement and distribution (using of imported foods)
4. Sales structure, focusing regions and users
5. Maintenance of freshness and safety, personnel education
6. Overseas development (supporting of Japanese-affiliated companies, establishment of branches overseas)
7. Future market strategy
IV Profiles of Leading Meal Service Companies
32 companies
V Brief Profiles of Nationwide Meal Service Companies (493 companies）