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The shelf-stable meal market — which along with pasta-and-cheese products includes kits for pizza, tacos and sloppy Joes — grew about 9 percent, to $2.1 billion, from 2005 to 2010, according to the market research firm Mintel.
14 The ready meal market in the United States is less developed than that in the United Kingdom but is expanding, with some European manufacturers moving into the American market.
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Northern Foods, one of the pioneers of Britain's ready-meals market, welcomed the panel's move.
The factory was built when the heat 'n' eat ready-meals market was in its infancy.
The Fenland Foods factory was built in 1986, when the ready meals market was in its infancy.
Britain's ready meals market has been plagued by overcapacity, with an explosion of activity after M&S first introduced pre-prepared dishes in the early 1990s.
Meanwhile, the rise in popularity of meat alternatives in many developed countries goes hand in hand with a rise in obesity, the promotion of low carb, protein-rich diets, an expansion in the ready meals market and growth in meat-heavy fast food chains both north and south of the equator.
The ready meals market is worth £2.5bn a year.
By 2012, the chilled ready meal made up 57% of the UK prepared meals market, according to business analysts Mintel.
The consumer has evolved but the experience in the daily meals market hasn't," he added.
The UK has one of the most dynamic ready-meal markets, accounting for more than £1.4 bn in annual sales in the year to January 2014 – a 1.5% year-on-year increase (Chilled Food Association, 2014).
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