Almost every second egg comes from a discounter

Private households bought slightly fewer eggs

On average, local consumers were somewhat reluctant to buy eggs in the first six months of this year: With around 3,7 billion eggs, they bought one percent less than a year ago, according to data from the GfK household panel commissioned by ZMP and CMA . However, in June 2004 they bought more eggs than in the same month last year and increased their purchases by around eight percent to 0,6 billion pieces.

Almost three quarters of all eggs were sold to private households in the first half of 2004 via the food retail trade. The discounters played the largest role with a market share of 45 percent, followed by the consumer markets, through which almost 20 percent of all eggs flowed. The Germans also liked to buy directly from the producer, where at least 13 percent of the eggs were sold.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]