China Juice Market Report
China Juice Market Report
China Juice Market Report
Juice Market
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1.MARKET SIZE AND KEY
STATISTICS
1.1 MARKET SIZE
In China, the juice market is divided into three categories. The first is low
concentration fruit juice with a fruit juice content of 5-10%, such as Coca Cola's Qoo,
Minute Maid's pulp juice and Master Kong's orange juice. In Australia, this category
would be referred to as ‘fruit drinks’.
The second category is composite juice, made from various fruits and vegetables,
with a concentration of about 30%, such as Watsons' Juice Mr.
The third category is 100% fruit juice, which can be divided into 100% concentrated
reduced fruit juice (FCOJ) and 100% non-concentrated fruit juice (NFC).
The very literal meaning of NFC in China refers to a fruit juice that is “directly filled
after being squeezed from fresh fruits”. It is considered to be natural with no
additives, has a high nutritional value and tastes good. This fresh, unadulterated
juice taps into the quality perception and the rising demand for products that are
considered healthy.
Low concentration juice accounts for over 74% of the sales in China's juice industry,
and the overall decline in sales in the juice market is mainly driven by the decline in
low concentration juice sales. Emerging health trends such as low sugar, low calorie,
and minimally processed, juices with a low concentration of fruit content are being
abandoned by the main consumer group of beverages, young people, in favour of
healthier, fresh tasting, and high appearance new drinks. The decline in juice
consumption at the lower end, fruit drinks, is being off-set by an increase in demand
of juice drinks made with a higher concentration of fruit juice and fresh juice – pure
juice.
In 2022, China’s total juice market was valued at AU$29.91 billion, showing an
increase of 5% from 2021.
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Low concentrate juice accounts for 74% of the total juice market.
Pure juice
6%
Medium concentrate juice
20%
Supermarkets are the largest juice sales channel, accounting for a 61% share,
followed by convenience stores (15%) and e-commerce (13%).
E-commerce
13%
Supermarket
61% Convenience
15%
Vending machine
0%
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1.2 IMPORT MARKET
In 2022, China imported 350,313 tonnes of juice, with a value of US$556 million. The
average price was US$1,587 per tonne.
Brazil (23%), Thailand (21%) and Vietnam (11%) are the top three juice exporters to the
Chinese market, based on volume.
In 2022 Australia exported 484 tonnes of juice to China, with a value of US$1.6 million.
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Ten exporting countries account for 87% of China’s total juice import market.
Australia accounts for 0.1% of the total import market.
Chinese consumers rarely drink juice for breakfast. The occasion for drinking juice is
more often during lunch or dinner, or as beverage between meals.
Traditional Chinese beverages include sour plum juice, sea-buckthorn juice and
hawthorn juice. Sour plum juice is made from black plums, peaches, grapes and
sugarcane, boiled with rock sugar. Rock sugar is believed to moisten the lungs,
relieving coughing. Black plum and hawthorn are believed to reduce oil and fat,
while strengthening the spleen.
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1.4 HEALTH MESSAGING BEING GENERATED BY MEDICAL ENTITIES
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the belief is that drinking fruit
juice has the following benefits for physical health:
The commonly used ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine health juice include
mulberry, goji berries and lotus seeds. These ingredients all have the effect of
regulating the body. For example, it is believed mulberry can nourish the liver and
kidneys, strengthen the spleen, and stimulate appetite; goji berries brightening the
eyes and nourish the skin; lotus seeds nourish the spleen, benefit the stomach, clear
the heart, and calm the mind. By combining these ingredients into a juice format,
one can regulate their physical fitness and improve their health status.
Drinking more juice can increase the body's metabolic capacity, slow down aging
and improve skin quality.
Drinking more juice can supplement the body's essential Vitamin C, enhance the
body's immune system, resist viruses, and reduce cold symptoms.
At present, there are no large-scale chain fresh juice stores in the Chinese market.
However, many beverage stores offer juice drinks, fruit smoothies, fresh juice,
concentrated juice drinks and concentrated juice tea drinks.
The most popular beverage stores in the Chinese market are tea beverage shops,
with most of them offering fruit tea and juice-based blends made with
concentrated juice.
The value of trade through tea beverage shops in 2022 was estimated at AU$22.6
billion, and it is expected to reach AU$32.6 billion in 2023. Trade is expected to reach
AU$43.8 billion per annum by 2025.
Packaged water, tea beverages, carbonated beverages and energy drinks are all
competitors to juice in the Chinese market.
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Figure 7: China soft beverage breakdown 2020
Packaged water
38% Juice beverage
14%
Carbonated beverages
15%
Tea beverages
20%
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2. MARKET LEADERS
Minute Maid, Weichuan and Huiyuan, Master Kong, Uni President, Pepsi and Orchard
Farmer are the top juice brands in the Chinese market. The top seven players hold
73% of the total market share. All prices quoted are retail or online selling prices.
Minute Maid
15%
Others
27%
Weichuan
12%
Orchard Farmer
Huiyuan
8%
11%
Pepsi
8%
Master Kong Uni President
10% 9%
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2.1 HUIYUAN
HQ: Beijing
Private company
Established in 1992
2022 sales revenue: AU$0.61 billion
2022 net profit: AU$43.48 million
More than 140 business entities across China
More than 20 agricultural industrial parks in more than 10 provinces
Juice product categories: 100% juice, pulp series, juice for child low concentrate
juice
Has more than 600 products
Has more than 300 world's advanced fruit processing production line
Juice type: orange, grape, apple, peach, pear and kiwifruit
Product export to more than 30 countries and regions, such as the United States,
Australia, Algeria, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Europe
Has online shop in major e-commerce platform, such as JD and Taobao
Website: http://www.huiyuan.com.cn
100% NFC Orange, lemon, apple, pear and carrot 300ml* 9 bottle 21.74
Pulp juice Peach, blood orange and blueberry 250ml*12 box 10.87
Pulp juice Peach, orange, strawberry blood orange and blueberry 1 liter* 5 box 12.17
Cranberry mixed
Cranberry and carrot mixed juice 350ml* 6 bottle 13.04
juice
Low concentrate
Orange, peach, mango and kiwi fruit 2,500 3.48
juice
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100% JUICE CRANBERRY 100% JUICE LOW
1 LITRE MIXED JUICE 330 ML CONCENTRATE
JUICE
100% JUICE
100% PRUNE JUICE 100% JUICE 300ML PULP JUICE
200ML*12 BOX 2 LITRE 1 LITRE* 5 BOX
HQ: Shanghai
Public company
Start beverage business in 1996
2022 beverage business sales revenue: AU$10.5 billion, showing an increase of
7.89% from 2021
Beverage business accounts 61.4% of the total companies revenue
2022 beverage business profit: AU$299 million
Juice business account 14% of total beverage business
In March 2012, further expanded its beverage business by forming a strategic
alliance with PepsiCo for the beverage business in the China.
Exclusively manufactures, bottles, packages, distributes and sells PepsiCo soft
drinks in China
Has 340 sales offices and 341 warehouses serving 80,726 wholesalers and
256,567 direct retailers as of 31 December 2021
Has online shop in major e-commerce platform, such as JD and Taobao
Website: https://www.masterkong.com.cn
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Table 5: Master Kong business breakdown
Category 2021 (Million AU$) 2022 (Million AU$) YOY (%) Share (%)
Tea
40%
Water Juice
10% 14%
HQ: Shanghai
Public company
Established in 1992
2022 juice business sales revenue: AU$0.65 billion, showing an increase of 35.4%
from 2021, the highest revenue in the past 6 years
Juice business accounts FOR 18.3% of the total companies revenue
Production bases: Shenyang, Haerbin, Changchun, Changbai Mountain, Beijing,
Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Henan, Yantai, in
Wuhan, Changsha, Nanchang, Wuxue, Kunshan, Hefei, Hangzhou, Shanghai,
Jiangsu, Xuzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Nanning, Hainan, Bama, Chengdu,
Kunming, Chongqing, Guiyang, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Aksu, Hutubi, and Baiyin.
Product sale throughout China
Has online shop in major e-commerce platform, such as JD and Taobao
Website: http://www.uni-president.com.cn
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Table 7: Uni President key juice products
Product Type Package Price (AU$/package)
DARK PLUM
245ML
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2.4 MINUTE MAID
LOW CONCENTRATE
PULP JUICE PULP JUICE PULP JUICE GUAVA
ORANGE PEACH GRAPE
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2.5 Orchard Farmer
Functional beverage
11%
Water
55%
Tea
21%
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Table 10: Orchard Farmer key juice products
Price
Product Type Package
(AUD/package)
100% NFC juice Orange /mango/apple & banana/ Guava 300ml 1.52
100% NFC juice Orange /mango/apple & banana/ Guava 900ml 4.02
100% NFC juice Orange /mango/apple & banana/ Guava 300ml*24 bottle 33.04
30% MIXED JUICE 100% NFC JUICE 100% NFC JUICE 12% JUICE
(REFRIGERATED TYPE)
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2.6 PEPSI COLA
HQ: Shanghai
Public company
Sino-foreign joint venture in China
Entered China in 1980
2022 sales revenue in China: AU$4.05 billion
2022 sales revenue: AU$134.99 billion
2022 net profit: AU$13.92 billion
Total Investment: PepsiCo and its partners have invested over US$1 billion in
China since 1981
All institutions: PepsiCo has more than 40 joint ventures or sole proprietorships in
China
Employment: Pepsi and Frito-Lay directly employ nearly 10,000 Chinese workers
Beverage sector: 20 bottling plants in 20 cities, and a wholly owned concentrate
plant. The flagship brands include Pepsi Cola, 7 Up, Mirinda, Pepsi Light, Pepsi
lime, extreme and Mountain Dew, Tropicana Pure, Dole Juice, Gatorade and
Lipton tea
Juice brand Dole Juice, Tropicana Pure
Dole juice product: Smoothie (Frozen Fruit Juice), fruit juice jelly
Tropicana juice product: Orange juice, apple juice, grape juice
Has online shop in major e-commerce platform, such as JD and Taobao
Website: https://www.pepsico.com.cn/index.html
Tropicana 100% juice Orange/ grape/ apple paper box 1 litre 2.66
Tropicana 100% juice Orange/ grape/ apple paper box 330ml 1.74
Tropicana 100% juice Orange/ grape/ apple glass bottles 250ml 1.81
Dole Fruit juice jelly Green Grape/ lychee/ orange/ pineapple 150g*8 bag 10.65
Smoothie (Frozen
Dole Green Grape/ orange/ pineapple 62ml*8 4.33
Fruit Juice)
HQ: Hangzhou
Public company
Established in 1953
Total revenue AU$4.34 billion
Profit AU$1.195 billion
Gross profit AU$72.61 million
Net revenue AU$52.17 million
Juice brand: Weichuan Daily C
In 1953, Wei Quan Company was established in Taiwan. Hangzhou Weiquan Food
Co., Ltd. was established in 2002. The factory is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
and Langfang, Hebei
In April 2014, Daily C Carrot Fruit and Vegetable Mixed Juice won the Monde
Selection Silver Award in 2014, while Daily C Orange Juice and Daily C (Fresh
squeezed) Citrus Lemon Juice won the Bronze Award in the same period
In May 2014, Daily C Carrot Fruit and Vegetable Mixed Juice won two stars of the
"2014 International Flavor and Quality Award"
Has online shop in major e-commerce platform, such as JD and Taobao
Website: www.weichuan.com.cn
100% juice Fresh orange juice/grape juice/carrot juice/apple juice 1.6 litre 5.83
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FRESH ORANGE JUICE CARROT JUICE PEACH JUICE RED BAYBERRY
JUICE
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3. CONSUMER SURVEY
In association with this report, Asian Agribusiness Consulting conducted a
consumer survey on juice consumption in China. The survey is based on 53
respondents, 49% male and 51% female.
Among the 53 respondents, 51 per cent were 20-35 years old, 43% were between 36-
50 years old and 6% were older than 50.
CNY 100-200
13%
> 200
CNY 50-100 9%
40%
< CNY 50
38%
Just over 37% of respondents said they spent less than CNY 50 (AU$10.50) each
month on juice products, while 39.6% said they spend between CNY 50 – CNY 100
(AU$10.50 – AU$21) each month on juice products.
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Figure 14: Factors influencing juice purchases
Other social media
9%
Recomended by friends Tik Tok
36% 12%
Wechat
14%
Store promotion
29%
250 ml
17% Figure 16: Package preference
Bag
2% Can
15%
Glass bottles were the most
popular packaging format among
the respondents, with just under
half of the respondents nominating Glass bottle
49%
them as their preferred choice.
Plastic bottles were also popular.
Plastic bottle
34%
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Figure 17: Does the appearance of the packaging effect your purchasing
decision?
No
Over 50% of survey participants said they
40%
would purchase juice based on
decorative packaging, indicating it is a
significant factor influencing the
Yes
purchasing decision.
60%
Personal preference
44%
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Figure 19: Attributes in juice important to consumers
Brand
8% Nutrition
Taste 7%
25%
Concentration When asked about the attributes
11%
that draw them to purchasing juice,
survey participants identified
refreshment, taste and health as the
main attributes.
Health
Refreshment 23%
26%
According to the survey, 43% of respondents prefer slightly acidic flavour and 57% of
respondents prefer slightly sweet flavour.
Slightly acidic
43%
Slightly sweet
57%
Yes
92%
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Huiyuan, Orchard Farmer and Minute Maid are the leading juice brands in the
Chinese market, according to the survey results.
Orchard Farmer
31%
Supermarkets are an important sales channel for juice in China, with 44.4% of
respondents purchasing juice from supermarkets, followed by convenience stores
and online sales channels.
Online store
19%
Supermarkets
44%
Convenience store
29%
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Almost 30% of respondents said they bought orange juice when they purchsed a
juice product. Mixed juice, grape juice, lemon juice, apple jucie and watermelon
juice are also popular juice products in China.
Other Vegetable
3% 9%
Orange
29% Watermelon
10%
Apple
11%
Mixed juice
13% Lemon
12%
Grape
13%
Over 50% of respondents usually drink juice on its own, while 25% of respondents
said they preferred to drink juice in the afternoon with snacks.
With lunch
9%
With breakfast
11%
U.S
6%
Domestic brand
47%
Australia
9%
New Zealand
21%
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Citrus Australia would like to thank Asian Agribusiness Consulting and their in-
market resources for their help in securing on the ground market intelligence and
insights pertaining to the juice industry.
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