In 2021, the sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan amounted to over 2.7 trillion Japanese yen. Specialty retailers are a major sales channel of home-meal replacements, with stores specializing on a range of mostly handmade, prepared foods including deep-fried side dishes as snacks or for rice meals, take-away lunch boxes, and traditional dishes.
Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021
(in trillion Japanese yen)
Specialty retailers encompass stores for prepared meals, take-out bento, bento at stations (ekiben), sushi, rice balls (onigiri), meals prepared-to-order, prepared breads, etc. Excluding take-out lunch boxes at restaurants and take-out from fast food stores. The market size excludes meals for business establishments and foods with a high shelf-life like frozen prepared foods and retort-pouch foods.
Figures prior to 2020 come from previous reports. 100 Japanese yen equal 0.74 U.S. dollars or 0.70 euros as of December 2022. Values have been rounded.
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Japan Ready-made Meal Association. (June 1, 2022). Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in trillion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/
Japan Ready-made Meal Association. "Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in trillion Japanese yen)." Chart. June 1, 2022. Statista. Accessed November 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/
Japan Ready-made Meal Association. (2022). Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in trillion Japanese yen). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/
Japan Ready-made Meal Association. "Sales Value of Ready-made Meals at Specialty Retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in Trillion Japanese Yen)." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/
Japan Ready-made Meal Association, Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in trillion Japanese yen) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/ (last visited November 23, 2024)
Sales value of ready-made meals at specialty retailers in Japan from 2015 to 2021 (in trillion Japanese yen) [Graph], Japan Ready-made Meal Association, June 1, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1308679/japan-ready-to-eat-meal-sales-value-specialty-retailer/
