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Regional Analysis - Export Markets

Regional analysis of performance of UK food and non-alcoholic exports across EU and non-EU regions.

In this section:

• EU
• Non-EU

EU

The performance of UK food and non-alcoholic drink exports across the EU in 2010 varied from a high of +62.2% to Finland (sourcing a large amount of its commodity supply from the UK in 2010 including sugars and meats but with also strong gains in prepared foods and non-alcoholic beverages) to a low of -19.3% to Greece (with declines in nearly all major categories due to the economic problems reducing demand for overseas goods).

The larger EU markets have grown moderately apart from Germany, covered previously, growing by over a third since 2009 (+35.7%):

• Ireland (+3.1%, including 14.9% growth in cheese and 78% increase in pork).
• France (+9.0%, including 18.5% growth in fish and seafood, +27.4% in Dairy and +6.2% in meat)
• The Netherlands (+5.5%, with 34.1% growth in fresh beef, +9.5% in chocolate and +11.7% in breakfast cereals)

The progress of Central European countries has improved vastly compared to the last few years. Only exports to Lithuania were down in 2010 (-8.4%) with strong growth seen in Latvia +32.3%, Czech Republic +24.5% and Slovakia +22.1%. Poland has rebounded with growth of 15.3% in 2010 due to much stronger gains in fish and seafood (+123.4%) and the meat sector (+16.0%) which contracted in 2009.

Growth in exports to Eurozone countries was 7.75%, slightly under the EU total as a whole due to the impressive gains made in central European countries.

Source: HMRC Trade Info

Note: Eurozone members marked as bold. Changes in ranking positions are versus 2009.

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Non-EU

Non-EU exports as a whole outperformed the EU significantly and as a result the non-EU share of all food and non-alcoholic drink exports jumped from 20.6% in 2009 to 23.1% in 2010.

The non-EU region showing the highest rate of growth for UK food and drink exports in 2010 was Africa helped by gains in several markets which have grown exponentially over the last 5 years including Ghana and Algeria. Soft drinks were up 38.9% in the region as was breakfast cereals +38.9%, however increases in dairy, cereal commodities and fish/seafood were responsible for over 60% of export growth.

Asia, up an impressive 34.6% Singapore +80.9% and Thailand +60.2%. Growth was driven by the baking +36.0%, meat +39.9% and prepared foods sectors with strong gains in many value added products.

North America continued to make gains in 2010 with growth of 23.9% associated mainly with the USA +28.9% and Canada +11.8%. Fish and Seafood +42.6%, Sauces and Condiments +36.1% and other food preparations +103.6% were the key growth sectors.

The Eastern Europe region grew by 19.1% mainly due to dairy exports of less than £250k in 2009 expanding to £5.5m in 2010. There were also strong gains in the prepared foods category including sauces and condiments +76.7% and lightly processed coffee, tea and spices +22.8%.

Source: HMRC Trade Info

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More information

• Top Export Sectors
• Top Export Markets
• Regional analysis, export markets 2009

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