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This report highlights the food processing industry, its drivers, key players, and market landscape in the Caribbean Basin. The region relies heavily on imports, and the United States is the largest supplier of food ingredients.

The turnover of the Czech retail foods sector was valued at $24.5 billion in 2022. Czech consumers are price focused, but interest is increasing in food items with qualities such as sustainability, health, and uniqueness.

Caribbean imports of consumer-oriented products shrunk from $2.3 billion in 2019 to $2.1 billion in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet Caribbean retail grocery sales grew by an estimated 6 percent during the same period.

The Czech Republic is a prosperous, industrialized, and export-driven economy which serves as an entry point for companies expanding to the developing markets in central and eastern Europe.

The food retail sector in the Czech Republic is saturated, consolidated, price sensitive, and competitive.

The Cayman Islands tourism industry has experienced tremendous growth during the past several years.

The Bahamas is the second largest market for U.S. consumer-oriented products in the Caribbean.

U.S. exports of consumer-oriented products to Aruba reached an all-time high of $74 million in 2016 and are on pace to reach another record level in 2017.

U.S. exports of consumer-oriented products to Trinidad and Tobago have experienced ten percent average annual growth over the past five years, reaching an all-time-high of $237.7 million in 2015.

Slovakia took over its first ever European Union (EU) Council Presidency on July 1, 2016.

This report contains information about Czech Republic’s food processing industry and food ingredients market.

The Food Marketing Consultants, Inc. with the help of FAS and its partner commodity organizations, penetrated seven Caribbean markets and tripled its exports sales...