Market Trends in Deli and Processed Meat Industry

Question

I have a student looking for information on market trends in the deli and processed meat industry but I am coming up relatively empty handed. Any suggestions?

Answer

There are a couple of CANSIM tables that come close. CANSIM Table 080-0010 - Retail commodity survey, quarterly (Dollars) is in E-STAT and provides quarterly figures from 1998 to 2003. The geographic coverage is only for all of Canada, though. This table includes an entry for "Deli (excluding cheese), salad bars and prepared foods for take-out."

Table 80-0013 provides annual sales instead of quarterly from 1999-2001 using the same retail commodity classification
as 80-0010.

The NAICS code for delicatessens is 44521. And while I could find three more related tables, they didn't provide stats at this level of detail provided in 80-0010. Table 80-0014, however, groups 44512, 44521, 44522, 44523, 44529 together into a Convenience and Specialty Food Stores category. This table provides monthly sales data from January 1991 to April 2004 (in E-STAT). The geographic coverage includes provinces.

CANSIM Table 080-0014 - Retail trade, sales by trade group based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly (147 series).

Table 080-0015 provides the coverage of 80-0014 but quarterly rather than monthly.

Another possibility is Table 80-0011 - Annual retail store survey, financial estimates by store type and trade group based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which covers 1999 to 2001 (in E-STAT) again using the same NAICS groupings as in 080-0014.

I didn't have any luck with Strategis.

PMB (Print Measurement Bureau) is a good source but when I searched for deli or delicatessen, I only found entries for cheese and not meats. The two 'cheese' entries were under the Groceries Section where a number of chains were identified. There are also entries for types of meat consumed.