Individual quick freezing (IQF) is a method used in the food processing industry for freezing food products, which further helps to increase the shelf-life of the food products. Food products such as berries, sliced fruits and vegetables, small fish, meat, and poultry are commonly frozen individually through IQF technology, which are smaller in size. Methods such as mechanical IQF freezing and cryogenic IQF freezing are used by various food manufacturing companies to keep the food products frozen, which will lead to increase the shelf- life of the food products and retain their nutritional value..

Visionary leaders are the leading market players in terms of new developments such as product launches, innovative technologies, and the adoption of growth strategies. These players have a broad product offering that caters to most of the regions globally. Visionary leaders primarily focus on acquiring the leading market position through their strong financial capabilities and their well-established brand equity.

Dynamic Differentiators are established players with very strong business strategies. However, they have a weaker product portfolio compared to the visionary leaders. They generally focus only on a specific type of technology related to the product.

Innovators in the competitive leadership mapping are vendors that have demonstrated substantial product innovations as compared to their competitors. The companies have focused on product portfolios. However, they do not have very strong growth strategies for their overall business, when compared with the visionary leaders.

The individual quick freezing market also includes some emerging companies, which either recently included the subject market-related services in their portfolios, have a limited service portfolio catering to the subject market, or are comparatively smaller in operations. In terms of geographical reach and their operational & financial strength as well, they are comparatively limited.