France Soft Drinks Market 2025

The French soft drinks market faces a challenging outlook with projected negative volume growth at a -0.7% CAGR through 2030, as structural headwinds offset limited positive drivers. Persistent health consciousness continues to reshape the category landscape, with the ongoing “sugar bashing” trend favoring reduced-sugar formulations over traditional full-sugar variants, though this shift fails to compensate for broader category decline. Environmental concerns are emerging as equally disruptive to market dynamics as health considerations, with plastic packaging becoming a critical pain point that is forcing manufacturers to accelerate transitions toward rPET, returnable PET, and glass bottle solutions to comply with stringent EU sustainability regulations and meet evolving consumer expectations.

While softening inflation provides some relief to manufacturers’ input costs – particularly for key ingredients like sugar and imported fruits that remain elevated – the sector continues to grapple with margin pressures as high unit prices struggle to fully offset volume erosion. The market’s value performance remains paradoxically stronger than volumes would suggest, supported by these necessary price increases rather than genuine consumption growth. Geopolitical uncertainties and domestic socioeconomic instability, exemplified by recent farmer protests disrupting supply chains, introduce additional volatility that may temporarily exacerbate the sector’s challenges.

Climate change presents a rare potential upside driver, as increasingly frequent heatwaves could stimulate seasonal demand, though this intermittent benefit fails to address the category’s systemic challenges. The convergence of health, environmental, and economic pressures is forcing a fundamental industry transformation, where success will depend on manufacturers’ ability to simultaneously reformulate products for better nutritional profiles, reinvent packaging ecosystems for sustainability, and maintain affordability in a price-sensitive market – all while navigating an unpredictable operating environment marked by regulatory changes and supply chain fragility. This complex landscape suggests the French soft drinks market may continue to contract in traditional segments while spawning niche opportunities in better-for-you and environmentally-conscious subcategories.

The report aims to deliver comprehensive data on the France soft drinks market, covering annual market size and growth rates over the past six years, along with projections through 2030. It provides an in-depth analysis of market categories and subcategories, with a particular focus on evolving trends by product type, type, packaging and distribution channel.

Market Segmentation

The France soft drinks market is classified into the following segments:
Product type: bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, concentrates, juices, RTD coffee, RTD tea, energy drinks, sports drinks
Type: regular, low- and no-sugar soft drinks
Packaging: flexible packaging, glass bottles, liquid cartons, metal cans, plastic bottles, others
Distribution channel: convenience stores, discounters, e-commerce, food and drinks stores, forecourts, hypermarkets, small grocery stores, supermarkets, vending, others

The France soft drinks market is segmented by product type, type, packaging and distribution channel. The categorization of the market by product type includes bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, concentrates, juices, RTD coffee, RTD tea, energy drinks, and sports drinks. Type segments are divided into regular, and low- and no-sugar soft drinks. Packaging segments comprise flexible packaging, glass bottles, liquid cartons, metal cans, plastic bottles, and others. Distribution channel segmentation comprises convenience stores, discounters, e-commerce, food and drinks stores, forecourts, hypermarkets, small grocery stores, supermarkets, vending, and others.

Competitive Landscape

Top players featured in the France soft drinks market study include Alma Group, Andros S.A.S., Britvic PLC, Capri Sun Group Holding AG, Danone S.A., Monster Beverage Corporation, Nerios Groupe, Nestle S.A., PepsiCo Inc., Red Bull GmbH, Spadel SA, Suntory Holdings Limited, The Coca-Cola Company, The Eckes-Granini Group GmbH, Tropicana Brands Group Inc. and Unilever PLC.

This analysis offers a comprehensive overview of the main players in the soft drinks market, evaluating their performance trends from 2020 to 2024. Key findings illustrate shifts in market share, identifying both dominant firms and rising competitors.

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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Key Findings
Market Segmentation
Market Overview
France Soft Drinks Market – Product Type Analysis
France Soft Drinks Market – Type Analysis
France Soft Drinks Market – Packaging Analysis
France Soft Drinks Market – Distribution Channel Analysis
Company Shares Analysis
Alma Group
Andros S.A.S.
Britvic PLC
Capri Sun Group Holding AG
Danone S.A.
Monster Beverage Corporation
Nerios Groupe
Nestle S.A.
PepsiCo, Inc.
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Macroeconomic Data and Forecast
Research Methodology
Disclaimer

FIGURES AND TABLES
Table France Soft Drinks Market 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market, Net Growth, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market, Growth Rates, 2020-2030
Table France Soft Drinks Market by Product Type, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Product Type, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Product Type, 2020-2030
Table France Soft Drinks Market by Type, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Type, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Type, 2020-2030
Table France Soft Drinks Market by Packaging, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Packaging, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Packaging, 2020-2030
Table France Soft Drinks Market by Distribution Channel, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Distribution Channel, CAGR Historic and Forecast, 2020-2030
Chart France Soft Drinks Market by Distribution Channel, 2020-2030
Table France Soft Drinks Market Share (%), by Companies, 2020-2024
Chart France Soft Drinks Market, by Companies, 2024
Table France Soft Drinks Market Share (%), by Brands, 2020-2024
Chart France Soft Drinks Market, by Brands, 2024
Table France – Population (Millions) and Forecast
Table France – Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Forecast
Table France – Gross Domestic Product and Forecast
Table France Soft Drinks Market: Spend as a Proportion of GDP (%)
Table France Soft Drinks Market: Consumption per Capita (Population)

Companies Mentioned

Alma Group
Andros S.A.S.
Britvic PLC
Capri Sun Group Holding AG
Danone S.A.
Monster Beverage Corporation
Nerios Groupe
Nestle S.A.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Red Bull GmbH
Spadel SA
Suntory Holdings Limited
The Coca-Cola Company
The Eckes-Granini Group GmbH
Tropicana Brands Group, Inc.
Unilever PLC