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Summer 2008
The Hartman Group is back with the most in-depth understanding into the consumer perceptions, motivations and behaviors driving the organic marketplace. Learn what organic now means since our 2006, 2003, 2000 and 1997 studies. The Many Faces of Organic 2008 is the authoritative...

White Papers

A Hartman Group White Paper connects you to the latest thinking on a wide range of consumer behavior issues, cultural lifestyle trends and industry practices that affect innovation, design, strategy, operations and branding across a broad spectrum of industries and functions.

A typical white paper represents a singular topic of interest and is filled with rich insights and analysis designed to provide a deeper level of understanding into the changing and evolving consumer behaviors that define and shape the marketplace.

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While today's consumer is content to enjoy high-quality food in a conventional cultural context, the cutting-edge food folks are...
Is Tesco's much anticipated Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market the future of food retailing in America? Creating high concept, specialty...
Consumers tastes are changing and moving beyond classic notions of American food, which they now consider bland by comparison to...
This fact sheet is derived from results of an online survey fielded via Hartman Interactive, The Hartman Groups online panel for...
Trans fats have become public health enemy number one on many levels across the country as municipalities such as New York and Chicago...
Building from our previous work, Understanding Obesity provides a provocative, yet simple, explanation as to the root problem of...
This white paper is derived from a major Hartman Group retail study, Shopper Insights: How Cultural Occasions Frame the Consumer...
This white paper is a compliation of HartBeat articles on the evolving trends in fresh and how consumer perpections of fresh are...
Today, many efforts to "market to Mom" appear to address an imaginary central household anchor who calmly monitors all social, nutritional...
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