Sales through food retailers in leading European markets is set to break the €1,000 billion mark before the end of the decade, according to a study by Mintel.

While food retailer sales of both food and non-food products now stand at an estimated €909 bn, by 2009 this figure will be near €1,030 bn.

Over the decade, sales will increase 74 per cent from €783 bn in 2000 to reach €1063 bn by 2010, Mintel predicts.

Over this period sales through food retailers are set to almost triple in Hungary, while in the Czech Republic they will almost double, making these the two fastest growing European food retail markets.

France has the largest food retailing sector, worth an estimated €190 bn in 2005, followed by the UK (€156 bn) and Germany (€140 bn), Italy (€99 bn) and Spain (€80 bn).

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