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Claims and Cues 2026: Category Attribute Playbook
Claims and Cues 2026: Category Attribute Playbook will crack the code on what drives purchase today across 20+ categories. Discover how cultural change, on-pack…
Gather around: Inside the growth potential of social eating occasions
Social occasions are an underutilized opportunity in modern food culture which is frequently focused on catering to hyper-individualized functional needs.…
Behind the scenes of "Sustainability 2025: Do Consumers Care?"
Despite inflation, the need for convenience and waning resonance of the term ‘sustainability,’ consumers still care about the issues. In this webinar, take…
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After 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…
Learn moreDeliver the Goods: Our Interview With Luke Saunders, Founder and CEO, Farmer’s Fridge
With consumer grocery shopping, cooking and eating behavior upended by the pandemic, what better time to catch up with Luke Saunders, Founder and CEO of…
Learn moreQuotable: Insights From the Voices of Experience
Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of interviewing visionary founders, CEOs, culinary experts, entrepreneurs and cultural influencers from across…
Learn moreUnderstanding COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating Behaviors and Occasions
The Hartman Group’s COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating report picks up where an earlier report left off and highlights how eating and drinking behavior…
Learn moreCOVID-19’s Impacts on Food Shopping: How We “Source” Today
In years past, Hartman Group reports on consumer grocery shopping behavior (for example, Food Shopping in America 2017) nearly always had the word "shopping"…
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