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Food and Technology 2026: The Digital Food Culture Gap
Digital food culture is accelerating—and so are the tensions shaping consumer trust, aspiration and action. “Food and Technology 2026” delivers a…
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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Understanding 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"…
Learn moreWhere Is Snacking Culture Headed During a Pandemic?
How Americans eat is a fascinating topic and highly reflective of a changing food culture, one key part of which has been our changing views and behaviors…
Learn moreConsumers Baking Up a Storm: Our Conversation With Karen Colberg, Co-CEO of King Arthur Baking
Not long ago, at the height of COVID-19’s impact, consumers were sheltering in place at home, and while we were busy tracking visible changes in grocery…
Learn moreTaking Control: Consumers Seek to Boost Resilience and Immunity for Better Health
Along with wide-ranging insights into how consumers approach the topic of functionality in relation to foods, beverages, supplements, and lifestyle, our…
Learn moreFrom Eating to Grocery Shopping to Functional Foods: Navigating the New Normal — Essential Hartman Group Insights
Life is a little chaotic these days — maybe you’ve missed the wide range of insights we’ve worked on over the last six months about how consumers…
Learn moreFrom Restaurants to Browsing Grocery Stores and More: Things We Miss — and Our Changing Values
COVID-19 has caused a great deal of stress, anxiety, and disruption and, to boot, a lot of fatigue with a litany of tiresome chores and behaviors that…
Learn moreImprovising With Quarantine Pantries: How Daily Feast Helps Consumers Cook
With consumers stuck at home and cooking a lot more, they've been telling us at The Hartman Group that new sources of culinary inspiration for the foods…
Learn moreHartman Insights: Our Take on Some of Today’s Important Topics Shaping Consumer and Business Behaviors
Our Hartman Retainer Services team keeps an ever watchful eye on the happenings occurring in the world of food and beverage to help our clients make sense…
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