Unit sales are struggling for cottage cheese, cream cheese, sour cream and even yogurt. Meanwhile the whipped cream cheese and refrigerated dip segments outperformed the others.
The cream cheese category’s dollar sales improved 5% to $1.5 billion, but units decreased 2.2% to 661.9 million, according to Information Resources Inc. (IRI), Chicago, for the 52 weeks ended Jan. 25, 2015. The yogurt category (the largest of the cultured categories) saw dollars sales up 3.2% to $7.3 billion, but unit sales dropped 0.1% to 5.1 billion.