Sugar, confectionery and ice-cream: Expenditure in the United Kingdom 2011-2022

In 2022, consumer spending on sugar, confectionary and ice-cream in the United Kingdom amounted to 13.41 billion British pounds.

Confectionary in detail

Confectionery is commonly split in two main categories; bakers’ confectionary, which encompasses a variety of baked goods and sugar confectionery including candies (or sweets in Britain), as well as chocolates, gums and other primarily sugar-based confections. In 2021, about 8,800 tons of sugar confectionary were made and sold in the UK. About 4.5 billion British pounds were generated in revenue with the manufacture of chocolate and sugar confectionary in the UK during the same year.

Ice cream market

Retail sales of ice cream in the UK were valued at 0.74 billion GBP in 2021. Sales from ice cream made in the UK made up a volume of 380 million liters in 2021. On average, a person in the UK purchased 115 grams of ice cream in tubs or block form per week in 2020/21.