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MARKET TRENDS

the year. Beverages first poured into third in 2015 with ranked fourth in 2015 with Subsistence Prime Vendor sales
sales of $117.68 million (9.9 percent) after ranking second in of 76.29 million, or 6.4 percent of the total. It ranked fourth
2014 with 11.98 percent of total Subsistence Prime Vendor with 6.4 percent of total Subsistence Prime Vendor sales in
sales and first in 2013 with 17.8 percent. 2014 after moving up in 2013 from a fifth-place finish in
Vegetables gains a fourth-place ranking in 2016 with 2012, passing Vegetables.
Subsistence Prime Vendor sales of $81.68 million, or 6.5 Bakery & Baking Products leads off the next five largest
percent of the year’s total. The category moves up for the categories by dollar volume. For the year, Bakery & Baking
third consecutive year after ranking fifth in 2015 in sales Products sales were $69.53 million, or 5.51 percent of the
by category with $75.06 million, or 6.3 percent. It ranked total for all 35 Subsistence Prime Vendor categories. Dollar
sixth in 2014 with 6.3 percent of sales. volume increased from the category’s 2015 total of $64.25
Fish and Seafood remains in the top five Subsistence million, or 5.4 percent. In 2014, it ranked sixth with 5.3
Prime Vendor sales categories, with sales of $80.67 million percent of sales.
in 2016, or 6.39 percent of the year’s total. The category Fruits remains the seventh-largest category by dollar
volume, with 2016 Subsistence Prime
Vendor sales of $54.42 million, or 4.31
percent of the total. Sales increased
from $48.65 million in 2015, or 4.1
percent of the total. In 2014 it again
ranked seventh with 4.2 percent of sales.
Entrées enters at eighth place for
2016 with sales of $45.69 million, or
3.62 percent of the annual total for
the 35 categories. It moves up from
ninth in 2015, and sales increased from
$42.87 million, or 3.6 percent of that
year’s total. The category was eighth
in 2014 with 3.8 percent of sales and
in 2013 with 3.78 percent of the total
for the year.
Eggs ranked as the ninth-largest cat-
egory by dollar volume, with 2016 Sub-
sistence Prime Vendor sales of $44.64
million, or 3.54 percent of the year’s
total. In 2015, Eggs stood in eighth
place with sales of $44.64 million, or
3.9 percent of the annual total for
the 35 categories. It moved up from
ninth place in 2014 with 3.2 percent
of sales and from 10th in 2013 with
2.7 percent of the total for that year.
Tenth largest among the 35 Subsis-
tence Prime Vendor categories by dollar
volume is Dairy Products with $34.35
million in sales, or 2.72 percent of the
year’s total. It ranked 10th in 2015 with
sales of $33.47 million, or 2.8 percent
of the total, moving up from 12th in
2014 with 2.6 percent of sales.
As a snapshot of subsistence prime
vendor sales for the year, the break-
down of total spending by individual
category shows where dollars are being
spent and purchasing shifts. Overall,
total sales for all of the 35 categories
rose 5.87 percent in 2016 to $1.26
billion from $1.19 billion in 2015.
The data presented here is based on
proprietary information compiled and
furnished by One2OneUS LLC under
a contract with DLA Troop Support.
Throughout these listings, the total
dollar and percentage figures may not
add up due to rounding. —GFS

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