Food, Beverage & Household FMCG
Packaged food and beverage brand economics; private label; channel share dynamics.
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Consumer Goods.
Private-label share, DTC fatigue, and premiumisation are reshaping category economics. We cover FMCG, beauty, apparel, home goods, and the retail channels they flow through.
Our view
Thesis on Consumer Goods.
Private-label share, DTC fatigue, and premiumisation are reshaping category economics. We cover FMCG, beauty, apparel, home goods, and the retail channels they flow through.
Same methodology as every other Meridian verticalCommittee-reviewed before publication
What we research
Sub-sectors of Consumer Goods.
Every sub-sector below is commissionable as a standalone 30-chapter study, or scoped bespoke for investment-committee and diligence use.
Beauty & Personal Care
Interactive · live
A working consumer goods dashboard.
Every commissioned consumer goods study ships as an interactive dashboard, size and trajectory, ranked share, regional cuts, segmentation. Hover every bar to see the underlying figure; every number is traceable to a named source.
Interactive dashboard · live
FMCG · specimen
Overview
2025 size · 2026–2036 forecast · committee-signed
$4.38T
2019$4.45T
2020$4.52T
2021$4.59T
2022$4.67T
2023$4.74T
2024$4.82T
2025$5.50T forecast
2030$6.45T forecast
2036Revenue trajectory (historical 2020 – Q1 2026 · forecast 2026–2036)
Strategic themes · this quarter
What is moving in Consumer Goods.
The priorities our research committee is tracking across the sector this quarter. Sub-sectors describe structure; themes describe motion. Reports commissioned against these themes ship with the latest signal-read baked in.
Private-label share acceleration
Retailer private-label growth across FMCG categories; brand-portfolio response strategies.
GLP-1 impact on snacking
Calorie-consumption reduction flowing through snacking and indulgent-category volumes.
Clean-beauty regulatory tightening
EU SCCS and state-level US ingredient bans driving reformulation capex and category share shifts.
Who uses this research
Role-tested in Consumer Goods.
The four teams that most commonly commission consumer goods research. Each role below maps to a specific use-case the commissioned study is scoped against, from diligence to annual planning.
Corporate Development · FMCG
Brand-portfolio optimisation, bolt-on acquisition diligence, and category-exposure mapping.
Private Equity
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Adjacent coverage
Related verticals.
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