Similarly, almost half of
organic food sales in Europe are still from organic food shops and health food retailers.
In the UK, the main cause of the market's overall decline was a 5 % drop in multiple retail sales, which account for 71.4 %
of organic food sales.
Total organic food sales in 2015 were $ 39.7 billion, up 11 % from 2014, according to the trade group's survey released in 201
«Demand for organics is growing by between 20 per cent and 45 per cent each year, with
organic food sales accounting for around one per cent of total food sales in this country,» general manager of IBISWorld Robert Bryant says.
The search for authenticity has
led organic food sales to more than triple over the past decade and increase 11 % last year alone to $ 35.9 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.
The Brazilian supermarket Pão de Açucar said it is investing in consumer education to
raise organic food sales in its stores.
Ekoweb has summarized the preliminary sales figures for the organic food market for 2017 which shows that
organic food sales increased by 9.3 percent in 2017.
Organic food sales in the U.S. totaled $ 43.1 billion in 2016, marking the first
time organic food sales in this country have broken through the $ 40 billion mark.
In fact,
organic food sales in the United States approached an estimated $ 37 billion in 2015, up 12 percent from the previous year, * and have continued to steadily grow.
While organic food accounts for 1 — 2 % of total food production worldwide,
the organic food sales market is growing rapidly with between 5 and 10 percent of the food market share in the United States according to the Organic Trade Association, [98] significantly outpacing sales growth volume in dollars of conventional food products.
Organic produce sales account for almost 40 % of
all organic food sales and remain the biggest organic food category.
You can trace a lot of the growth in
organic food sales and the organic movement to that date.
While they still only total 3 % of all retail sales of food and beverages, in 2006 «
organic food sales totaled nearly $ 17 billion,» a 22 % increase over 2005.