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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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Improvising 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…
Learn moreCOVID-19 and New Modern Convenience
What does convenience look like when a global pandemic throws normal schedules and routines into disarray? The desire for convenience is a key trend…
Learn moreIt’s a Brave New World — Where Is Our Food-Obsessed Culture Headed?
Understanding the Why Behind Food Culture: Our Interview With Eve Turow-Paul, Author of the Newly Released Book “Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and…
Learn moreThe Big Shift in Consumer Behavior: Meeting the Challenges of Cooking in the Time of COVID-19
Since mid-March, as millions of Americans have hunkered down at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hartman research indicates that consumers have adapted…
Learn moreHealthy, Ethical, Sustainable and Rooted in Folklore: Plant-Based Foods and Beverages Thrive During Pandemic
Living up to their energized disruption of established dairy and protein categories that built great momentum in 2019, plant-based foods, beverages and…
Learn moreIn a Time of High Anxiety, Consumers Turn to Functional Solutions — but What Does “Functional” Mean?
Prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Americans were already feeling anxious and stressed. The Hartman Group’s Health + Wellness 2019: From Mindfulness…
Learn moreWho Do You Trust? In the Time of a Historic Health Crisis, Doctors and Healthcare Providers Are Most Trusted Sources of Information, Finds New Hartman Group Report
The same report finds that three in ten consumers say they are consuming more functional foods and beverages due to COVID-19.Since mid-March, millions…
Learn moreBig Food Is Back – But for How Long Without Innovation?
Whether empty shelves at food retail, COVID-19-driven shutdowns in facilities, worker (and animal) welfare or shuttered restaurants, we are likely —…
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