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Food and beverage production
The main objective of the Food & Beverage industry is to provide safe, high-quality and affordable nutrition to consumers worldwide. It plays an essential role in the global food chain by transforming raw agricultural commodities into end products that meet the needs of increasingly sophisticated consumers. The industry is a key contributor to society’s goals of ensuring food security and public health. It is also one of the biggest innovators, a stable source of employment and incomes, and a major driver of socio-economic development.
The Food & Beverage industry involves the processing and transformation of agricultural and livestock goods into products for intermediate or final consumption. The manufacture of meat and dairy products, flour and milling by-products, oils, sugar, chocolate, frozen food, animal feed, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as tobacco products, are all part of this industry. The industry’s products are usually sold to wholesalers and retailers for distribution to consumers.
In H1 2025, Colombia's food and beverage manufacturing recovered from the low-growth phase that characterised most of 2023-2024. GVA expanded due to fewer restrictions on the supply side: availability and pricing of key agricultural inputs improved, ...
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Colombia's food and beverage sector accounts for 27% of the country's manufacturing industry. The sector has endured a complex and uneven performance, reflecting both global macroeconomic pressures and localised climatic shocks. The sector's Gross ...
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In H1 2024, the food and beverages sector's GVA contracted by 3.8% y/y. This was due to the reduced performance of certain segments, such as oils and fats (-11.3% y/y), dairy products (-6.3% y/y), bakery products (-8.4% y/y), sugar and panela (-7.9% ...
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In 2023, Colombia's food and beverages sector decreased in real terms by 2.4% y/y, having presented outstanding growth in 2021 (5.8% y/y) and 2022 (7.5% y/y), and exhibits diverse trends and dynamics across its various segments. Despite a 1.56% y/y ...
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The food and beverages sector in Colombia has shown resilience, not only at the production level by recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, but also at the consumption level, as despite higher prices Colombians have increased their consumption of milk ...
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The food and beverage industry is one of the largest sectors in Colombia’s economy. Between 2015 and 2020, the sector’s gross value added (GVA) rose at a CAGR of 1.1% in real terms, boosted by growing domestic demand and rising ...
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The food and beverage industry is one of the largest sectors in the Colombian economy. Between 2014 and 2019, the sector’s GVA rose at a CAGR of 2.03%, boosted by growing domestic demand and higher household incomes. The best-performing segment ...
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The food and beverage industry is one of the largest sectors in the Colombian economy, responsible for 3.4% of the country’s GDP in 2018. Between 2013 and 2018, the sector’s GVA rose at a CAGR of 2.1%, supported by growing domestic demand ...
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