Meat+Poultry - February 2024 - 26

HOT DOG AND SAUSAGE REPORT
Sausage
Frank setup
S
ausage products remain a
constant part of most meat eaters'
diets even as market factors
change. Consumers remain interested
in this segment, whether it is hot dogs,
custom sausages, bratwurst, pepperoni,
or other new varieties.
Updated data from Chicagobased
market research firm Circana
OmniMarket Integrated Fresh, formerly
IRI, said the 52 weeks ending Dec. 31,
2023, reflected how inflation impacted
sausage and hot dog sales with some
categories down slightly and others
remaining flat.
Frankfurter dollar sales, according
to Circana, showed $2.86 billion, down
1% from the same time last year. Volume
sales stood at $815.4 million, down 2.7%.
The company also broke down
different elements of dinner sausage,
which reported sales of $4.9 billion
in the last year. This led to no change
from the same time in 2022.
Subcategories in dinner sausage
service included pork sausage at $2.36
and hot dogs
are still valuable
categories for the
meat industry
BY RYAN MCCARTHY
rmccar thy@sos land.com
billion, mixed dinner sausage at $1.33
billion, beef dinner sausage at $653.44
million, chicken dinner sausage at
$306.59 million and turkey dinner
sausage at $264 million.
Smaller categories mentioned by
Circana included dinner sausage, fowl/
exotic sausage, lamb and veal sausage.
Another category that remains
popular throughout the United States
is breakfast sausage. Well-known
brands continue to place it as an
important protein for people to start
their day.
Circana detailed in its numbers
that breakfast sausage sales stood at
$2.18 billion, down 2.3% from the same
period in 2022.
Leading sales in the subcategories
was pork breakfast sausage by a
significant margin at $1.89 billion
during the time period. Next was
turkey breakfast sausage at $207.7
million. The others include mixed
breakfast sausage, chicken breakfast
sausage and beef breakfast sausage.
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Deli grab-and-go sausage was at
$2.08 million for the time period, while
grab-and-go frankfurters stood at
$1.4 million.
Anne-Marie Roerink, principal of
210 Analytics, along with Circana,
showed that sausage prices were fairly
similar at the average price per pound
for 2023.
Dinner sausage stood at $4.55 per
lb which was 0.4% higher than 2022.
Breakfast sausage came in at $4.74, up
almost 0.2% from the previous year.
The latest information from The
National Hot Dog and Sausage Council
(NHDSC) website said 917 million
lbs of hot dogs were sold at US retail
stores in 2022, adding up to more than
$3 billion in retail sales.
Like most years, May through
September continue to be the strongest
months in terms of demand. Meat
processing companies are preparing
to step up production of sausages
and especially hot dogs as the start of
baseball season moves closer.
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