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China's Coffee Market: Challenges and Opportunities

China is a country with thousands of years of tea culture history, and tea is also a beverage highly esteemed by domestic consumers. Against this backdrop of tea culture, the development of coffee, which is extremely popular abroad, has been remarkably slow in China. With the transformation of consumer awareness, China's coffee market has achieved significant development in the past decade, with a market growth rate of approximately 15%, which is 5-6 times the global average growth rate. Although China's coffee industry shows strong growth momentum, domestic enterprises' output remains relatively weak. Currently, China's coffee market is mainly dominated by foreign companies. Instant coffee is concentrated in enterprises such as Nestlé and Maxwell House, while freshly ground coffee is firmly dominated by Starbucks, the leader in direct-operated retail terminals. The former giant UBC Coffee has long since lost its prominence.

Yunnan Province: A Premium Coffee Growing Region

Yunnan Province is one of the world's premium coffee bean producing regions and also one of the raw material sources for international coffee giants. China's coffee production mainly focuses on raw coffee materials. When it comes to raw material supply, we must mention Hougu Coffee, the leading enterprise in China's coffee industry. In its early years, Hougu Coffee mainly supplied coffee beans and coffee powder to companies like Nestlé and Maxwell House. In recent years, it has also focused on developing the coffee market, owning China's largest instant coffee production line and deploying coffee shops offline, attempting to carve out a share of China's coffee market. As one of the earliest enterprises to produce instant coffee in China, Lishen Coffee entered the fast lane of development with the rise of Hainan's regional economy, but due to the pressure from foreign brands, its output value has remained lukewarm.

Deep Processing Challenges and Technological Innovation

China's coffee deep processing started relatively late, with insufficient enterprise competitiveness, making the road to branding fraught with challenges. Direct confrontation with coffee giants offers no advantage whatsoever. Domestic enterprises are changing this landscape through scientific research and technological strength. At the beginning of the year, Hougu Coffee held a press conference in Kunming, announcing the successful development of a new healthy product to replace non-dairy creamer - freeze-dried walnut protein powder, and claimed that this product can blend well with instant coffee powder while also replacing non-dairy creamer as a widely used food additive. Hougu Coffee's move aims to break through the development barriers for domestic coffee enterprises and find new entry points for product marketing by overcoming technological barriers.

Impact of Walnut Protein Powder Innovation

The successful development of Hougu Coffee's walnut protein powder will have many positive impacts on the industry:

1. Yunnan Premium Coffee Guides Healthy Development of Domestic Coffee Enterprises

Against the backdrop of insufficient technological strength and brand awareness, domestic coffee enterprises urgently need market entry points. The concept of alternatives will provide enterprises with more development directions and promote the growth of domestic coffee companies.

2. Yunnan Premium Coffee Promotes Non-Dairy Creamer Market Development and Technological Innovation

Non-dairy creamer is widely used in numerous products such as beverages, convenience foods, and chocolate. In terms of non-dairy creamer used in instant coffee alone, there is an annual consumption of about 2 million tons, indicating huge market development potential. Additionally, the issue of trans fatty acids contained in hydrogenated vegetable oil in non-dairy creamer has been widely criticized. The emergence of healthy non-dairy creamer alternatives will have a profound impact on the entire non-dairy creamer market, which also aligns with the WHO's health initiative to completely "eliminate" trans fatty acids within five years. The future development prospects are promising.

3. Yunnan Premium Coffee Drives Diversified Development of the Walnut Market

The walnut industry mainly focuses on agricultural product sales. In recent years, walnut milk beverages, baked products, and others have also driven the development of the walnut industry. Non-dairy creamer alternatives will become a new opportunity for the walnut industry, helping to address agricultural product inventory in production areas and optimizing the development思路 of walnut deep processing enterprises.

Market Dynamics and Future Outlook

Recently, Nestlé and Starbucks formed a global coffee alliance, and the combination of instant and retail will intensify the unicorn model of enterprises. At this time, domestic brand Luckin Coffee also officially announced its opening on May 8th. How far the internet scenario-based coffee, which appeared out of nowhere, can go remains to be seen. The road to the rise of domestic coffee enterprises is fraught with challenges.

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