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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 2018 the food sector's GVA stood for 2.5% of Poland’s total GVA. Overall, the food sector GVA accounted for 2.2% of the country's GDP in 2018. Poland was the EU’s sixth biggest food producer in terms of output value as well as the ...
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The food and beverage sector in Russia takes a relatively small share in the economy but is a significant contributor to foreign trade deficit. In 2019, the sector’s gross value added (GVA) accounted for 3.4% of the country’s ...
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Turkey has a well-developed food and beverage industry, which serves a population of over 82mn and around 40mn tourists annually. The sector accounts for almost 14% of Turkey’s total industrial production and is among the few having a positive ...
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The acceleration of economic activity, driven to a large extent by higher household consumption, was the main driver of the food and beverage sector in 2017. The sector’s production value grew by 4.9% y/y to HUF 2,981.7bn. Food manufacturing, ...
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Russia’s food and beverage sector has a minor share in this oil-dependent economy, generating just 1.7% of the GDP in 2018. The sector employed 840,000 people, equal to 2.5% of the country’s workforce and earned 5.5% of the export revenue ...
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The importance of the food manufacturing industry has always been crucial for the Polish economy's history and this has not changed nowadays: in 2016, the food sector's GVA was 2.7% of Poland’s total GVA and 2.39% of the country’s GDP, ...
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The beverages sector was responsible for around 3.3% of the GDP in 2017 and generated more than 300,000 direct and indirect jobs. Enterprises from the sector that employ more than nine persons each have a combined workforce of 22,000 people. Poland ...
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One of the world’s top 10 food producers, Turkey has a developed food and beverage industry, which both supplies a population of over 80mn and exports. The food and beverage processing sector accounts for 12.7% of Turkey’s total ...
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The food and beverage sector does not take a significant share in Russia’s economy, generating just 1.9% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and employing 1.7% of the total workforce in 2016. The sector’s gross value added ...
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The manufacture of food, beverage and tobacco products in Romania accounted for 5.18% of the whole economy and 23.54% of the manufacturing sector in terms of gross value added in 2015. The market output of food and beverages reached RON 51.96bn in ...
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