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Teen Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape: Feeding the Next Generation of Opportunity
Understanding teens’ eating and drinking habits today is essential for brands looking to build trust and loyalty with the shoppers and diners of tomorrow.
Rethinking Brand Strategy in a Shifting Landscape
In our latest white paper, we explore how most successful food and beverage brands don’t just follow trends — they lead by aligning with cultural shifts, deeply…
Behind the scenes of “Food Sourcing in America 2025"
This webinar goes beyond surface-level findings from the report, providing a look inside our discussions with real consumers that helped inform key takeaways…
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Snacking During COVID-19: Finding Comfort in Familiar Brands
The Hartman Group has been tracking the changes and evolution of America’s eating behaviors for more than three decades. In the past few years, the…
Learn moreAfter a Full Year Dealing With COVID-19, What Will Health + Wellness Mean in 2021?
If, as Shakespeare wrote, “what’s past is prologue,” then what behaviors and attitudes will we see play out in 2021 as a result…
Learn moreA “Munch”-Needed Distraction
Hartman Group report reveals that the pandemic has brought an increase in snacking where the primary motivation is simply some form of distraction Bellevue, WA…
Learn moreThe Rise of Private Label During COVID-19
There’s little doubt that the now infamous food and nonfood shortages of the first wave of the pandemic in March 2020 helped push consumers toward private…
Learn moreAfter the Pandemic: Consumers Look Ahead on Wellness and Shopping
As 2020 draws to a close, looking back we note how COVID-19’s disruptive impacts on communities, households and individuals have triggered deeper examination…
Learn moreWearing Masks, Shopping Local, Minimizing Risk: The In-Person Grocery Shopping Journey
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unprecedented disruptions to how consumers procure food, including disturbances to the supply chain, changes to how…
Learn moreReplaying Hartman’s Signature Express Webinars of 2020
At The Hartman Group, we like to end the year on an insightful note. This year, once again, we produced several short-form webinars that you can replay…
Learn moreFrom the Holidays to Convenience, Value and the Future of Food: A Compendium of Strategic Insights Into Changing Food Culture
From fundamental (and changing) notions of convenience to how consumers view value today, pandemic disruption has changed consumers and food culture itself:…
Learn moreCOVID-19: The Disruptive Force That Defined 2020. What We Will Explore in 2021.
It would be a gross understatement to say that many, many, many Americans can’t wait to put 2020 in the rearview mirror. Inarguably, COVID-19 has…
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