Opportunities in the Global Soups Sector 2026

Provides an overview of current soups scenario regarding the future outlook in terms of ingredients, product claims, labeling, distribution, and packaging. The analysis also covers regional overview across five regions - Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Americas, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe - highlighting industry size, growth drivers, latest developments, and future inhibitors for the regions.

Growing busy lifestyles, a rising urban population, and increasing consumer preferences for convenient, easy-to-cook, or ready-to-eat foods are driving value growth in the global soups sector. As a result, value sales rose by 6.5% annually in 2025 to $20.9 billion and are forecast to increase further to $25.5 billion in 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1%. Volume sales grew by 1.9% in 2025. Dried soup (mixes) was the largest category by value in 2025, accounting for 39.3% of sales, followed by ambient soup at 38%. The frozen soup category is expected to record the fastest value growth, at 4.7%, during 2025-30. The Americas was the leading region in 2025, with a value share of 40.4%, followed by the Asia-Pacific at 20.7%. The US, Japan, and the UK were the largest markets, with a combined value share of 51.1%.

Key Highlights

• Demand for soups with cleaner, natural, and plant-based components, including simple ingredient lists, minimal processing, and organic options, when possible, is growing. Expanding retail channels and growing ecommerce availability are boosting soup consumption by improving access, convenience, and expanding product discovery. Online grocery and delivery further support reordering, bundling, and improve the reach of niche flavors and dietary variants.

Scope

This report brings together multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the global soups sector, analyzing data from 108 countries. It includes an analysis of the following:

Global market snapshot: Includes executive summary, current sector scenarios in terms of ingredients, manufacturer claims, labeling, and packaging. The section also touches on the key growth enablers and inhibitors for the soups sector. The analysis also includes a global overview, along with regional and category-level data and analysis, highlighting sector size and evolution, value and volume shares by category, and growth drivers. The section also introduces the 10 high-potential countries and the ranking that will be analyzed in-depth in the regional overview and country deep dive section.

Consumer trends: Provides an overview of evolving consumer trends, supported by GlobalData's in-house consumer surveys and product examples.

Regional overview and country deep dive: The section includes regional analysis, including key growth drivers, and the major trends prevalent in the soups sector in the respective regions. It also includes performance overview, competitive landscape, distribution analysis, and packaging analysis for the high-potential countries in each region (two per region).

Competitive landscape: The competitive landscape section provides insights into company and brand performance.

Health & wellness analysis*: Provides insights on health & wellness (H&W) products in terms of value and percentage share in the overall soups sector at a global and regional level during 2020-25. The analysis includes key H&W attributes and consumer benefits driving sales of soups products across the five regions in 2025. It also covers the market shares of leading companies selling products with H&W attributes.

Distribution analysis: Provides an analysis of the leading distribution channels in the soups sector at a global and regional level. It also maps the performance of the leading distribution channels over the period 2020-25.

Packaging analysis*: The section maps the evolution of packaging for the global and all five regional markets. The analysis delves into the performance of various packaging parameters: packaging material, packaging type, closure type, and outer type.

Other sector metrics: The section provides topline statistics and analysis for different alternate datasets, such as patent filings, job analytics, and deals in the soups sector in 2025.

Reasons to Buy

• Manufacturers and retailers seek latest information on how the market is evolving to formulate their sales and marketing strategies. There is also demand for authentic market data with a high level of detail. This report has been created to provide its readers with up-to-date information and analysis to uncover emerging opportunities of growth within the sector in the region.
• The report provides a detailed analysis of the countries in the region, covering the key challenges, competitive landscape and demographic analysis, that can help companies gain insight into the country specific nuances.
• The analysts have also placed a significant emphasis on the key trends that drive consumer choice and the future opportunities that can be explored in the region, than can help companies in revenue expansion.
• To gain competitive intelligence about leading brands in the sector in the region with information about their market share and growth rates.