date:May 08, 2012
reach $28.6bn by 2016, driven by interest in comfort foods and a general snacking boom.
Retail ice cream and frozen dessert sales accounted for under half of the market in dollar terms (43%) last year, mainly because foodservice items tend to have higher prices. In retail, packaged ice cream remained the biggest seller, accounting for 55% of total sales, but the fastest growing category was for the frozen yogurt and tofu specialty segment, it said, which grew 8% over the past year.
The market