End Consumers Drive Production Trends

Sustainable packaging is important to consumers

A 2023 McKinsey survey found that approximately two-thirds US consumers say that sustainable packaging is at least somewhat important when making a purchasing decision and that they’re willing to pay more for it.3

Consumption of sugary beverages is falling

A 2020 Harvard study2 found that between 2003 and 2016, the percentage of American children who were heavy consumers of sugar beverages declined from 11 percent to 3 percent during that period, and the percentage of adults dropped from 13 percent to 9 percent.

Rising Organic Beverage Sales

Organic beverage sales in the United States reached $9B in 2022. A spokesperson for the Organic Trade Association said: “Organic beverages continue to climb. They’re an area where shoppers are willing to
experiment and are less price sensitive.”1

Trends
Combining

Gavin Dutt, Global Insights and Analytics Manager at Tetra Pak says: “the two big trends…in the juices industry are health, related to sugar, and secondly and more importantly, the sustainability and traceability demanded by the consumers.”4