As summer approaches, the competition in the ice cream market has already begun. With the wave of consumption upgrades sweeping through, consumer demand for ice cream has long evolved from simple refreshment to a multi-faceted pursuit of quality, taste, and social attributes. In this trend, GELATO is rapidly becoming the focus of foodservice ice cream selection. How to find high-repurchase, high-premium, and highly adaptable bestsellers in fierce market competition? Andros, a French fruit expert with a century-long history, provides full-chain growth solutions for B-end groups such as distributors. GELATO Market Explosion: The New Wealth Opportunity in Ice Cream in 2025 What is the hottest "social currency" this summer? Not milk tea, not coffee, but GELATO! In shopping malls, queues of up to 2 hours form in front of GELATO stores; on Xiaohongshu, related topics have over 1.5 billion views; chain brands are launching GELATO co-branded products, triggering a buying frenzy. This "ice cream revolution" sparked by young consumers is bringing unprecedented business opportunities to foodservice channel partners and distributors. According to data from iiMedia Research, the market size of China's ice cream industry is expected to exceed 183.5 billion yuan in 2024, with GELATO leading the pack with a compound annual growth rate of 35%, becoming the fastest-growing sub-category. The upgrade in consumer demand for ice cream is the core driver of GELATO's explosion. 86.2% of consumers consider "taste" as the primary factor when purchasing ice cream, and GELATO, with its dense texture, natural ingredients, and creative flavors, precisely meets consumers' pursuit of high-quality ice cream, quickly making it a hot commodity in the ice cream market. Facing such a booming market, Andros, the century-old French fruit expert, has timely launched its newly released Italian-style milk ice cream series and innovatively upgraded sorbet series for 2025, providing B-end customers with powerful tools to seize market opportunities. Three Core Advantages: Andros GELATO's Path to Market Conquest 1. Premium Milk Source Base, Setting the Benchmark for Selected Ingredients Andros understands the critical role of raw materials in ice cream quality and strives for excellence in milk source selection. It carefully selects high-quality milk from the golden milk source belt in Northeast China, ensuring that each ice cream contains ≥30% milk content, far exceeding the industry average. Such high milk content brings a dense and mellow texture, allowing consumers to feel the rich milk aroma with every spoonful, serving as a strong guarantee of quality. This strict control over raw materials has established Andros as a benchmark for selected ingredients in consumers' minds, and also provides distributors with products of excellent quality, enhancing market competitiveness. 2. Floral and Fruit Flavor Innovation, Precisely Targeting Gen Z's "Adventurous Palate" Gen Z consumers seek novel and distinctive flavors. Leveraging its century-long experience in fruit product R&D, Andros has launched two highly creative floral and fruit GELATO flavors—Summer Black Grape Rose and White Peach Jasmine—precisely targeting Gen Z's "adventurous palate." The Summer Black Grape Rose flavor incorporates Andros Summer Black Grape Rose Granule Sauce, allowing consumers to chew real fruit pulp and petals in every bite. The sweet fruit aroma and delicate rose fragrance unfold layer by layer, not only satisfying young people's curiosity for new flavors but also making its high-appearance design a popular check-in spot on social media. The White Peach Jasmine flavor integrates Andros White Peach Jasmine Granule Sauce, creating a triple flavor of "tea aroma + fruit aroma + milk aroma," suitable for new Chinese-style tea shops, bakeries, and other "national trend" scenarios, becoming the preferred "taste break" for young people. 3. Classic Flavor Upgrades, Real Ingredients Create Sweet Bestsellers In addition to innovative flavors, Andros's refinement of classic flavors is equally impressive. The vanilla flavor uses European imported vanilla paste, with visible real vanilla seeds adding a unique chewiness to the ice cream. The rich milk aroma and vanilla flavor intertwine, making it a perfect match with coffee, waffles, and more, becoming a classic among classics. The chocolate flavor features specially selected imported cocoa powder, with over 60% high milk content balancing the bitterness of cocoa, achieving a silky texture that is "rich but not bitter, mellow but not greasy," making it the "ace ice cream" for afternoon tea in star-rated hotels. The combination of classic and innovative flavors gives the Andros Italian-style milk ice cream series a rich flavor matrix, meeting the needs of different consumers and providing distributors with more options for market expansion. Product Strength and Supply Chain Dual Drive Building Professional Competitiveness As a modern enterprise with a century-long history, Andros's professional competitiveness is not only reflected in product strength but also in its robust supply chain capabilities. In product R&D, Andros leverages its strong R&D capabilities to continuously launch new products that align with market trends. Its in-depth research on the GELATO market and precise grasp of consumer needs ensure that each new product quickly gains market recognition. The Italian-style milk ice cream series launched in 2025 was developed based on a thorough understanding of consumers' demands for health, taste, and appearance, giving it strong market competitiveness. In addition, the sorbet series has been innovatively upgraded, with an average fruit content of over 40% across the entire series, precisely catering to the needs of lactose-intolerant consumers and light meal scenarios. Andros's 2025 new product matrix is a testament to its ability to translate "health and personalization" demands into product strength. On the supply chain front, Andros has a comprehensive supply chain support system. From raw material procurement to production and processing, and then to product transportation, every link is strictly controlled to ensure stable supply and consistent quality. Its modern production facilities use advanced production processes and equipment, ensuring efficient production and stable quality. At the same time, Andros has established an extensive logistics network that can deliver products to customers in a timely and accurate manner, providing distributors with reliable supply chain assurance. This dual advantage of "product strength + supply chain" allows Andros to stand out in the fiercely competitive market and become a trusted partner for many B-end customers. Scenario Adaptation: Expanding Diverse Market Spaces Both the Andros Italian-style milk ice cream series and the sorbet series have broad scenario adaptability, meeting the needs of various foodservice scenarios and helping terminal stores create high-repurchase star products. In baking and catering scenarios, the GELATO series can be paired with bread, desserts, and more, such as White Peach Jasmine Milk Ice Cream Bread Temptation and Summer Black Grape Rose Milk Ice Cream Dessert Bowl, which not only enhance the taste and appearance of desserts but also add new profit points for bakeries. In cafes, the sorbet series can form creative combinations with coffee, sparkling water, and more, such as Coconut Sorbet Affogato and Mango Sorbet Sparkling Water, becoming signature beverages that attract consumers and enhance the product competitiveness of cafes. In star-rated hotels, Andros GELATO, with its high-end quality, has become the preferred choice for afternoon tea and dessert tables, improving the hotel's dining quality and customer satisfaction. Appearing at the Shanghai Baking Exhibition Jointly Exploring the New Blue Ocean of the Ice Cream Market From May 19 to 22, 2025, Andros will showcase its Italian-style milk ice cream series, sorbet series, and other new products at the China (Shanghai) International Bakery Exhibition. It is believed that at this exhibition, Andros will join hands with more partners to explore the infinite possibilities of the ice cream market and open up new blue ocean markets. In the increasingly competitive ice cream market of 2025, Andros, with its professional advantages in the GELATO field, innovative capabilities, and strong supply chain support, provides reliable growth solutions for B-end customers. Choosing Andros means choosing to cooperate with high-quality, high-potential products, seizing the opportunity in the wave of the ice cream market, and achieving win-win development.