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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…

Food Sourcing in America 2025: Fragmentation and Focus

Food and beverage sourcing has grown increasingly fragmented, and retailers are battling for their slice of a seemingly shrinking pie. “Food Sourcing…

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February 17, 2023 | White Paper

A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions Report Highlights

Leveraging The Hartman Group’s proprietary Eating Occasions Compass Database, this special report highlights findings from A New Landscape of Eating:…

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February 13, 2023 | Article

Is technology making us lazy and dumb?

Some consumers think it could be “You know, everything is so convenient and readily available with the touch of a button or voice-activated.…

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February 03, 2023 | Article

Separating the walk from the talk and identifying opportunities along the way!

Have you ever wondered what separates the real health and wellness enthusiasts from those who are simply good at talking the talk? We don’t. Not…

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February 02, 2023 | Webinar

"Food & Technology 2023" Report Highlights

In this 20-minute webinar, our CEO Laurie Demeritt will share key data and insights from our report, "Food & Technology 2023.""Food & Technology…

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January 31, 2023 | Infographic

A Sustainable Food System Might Be The Prize in a Tug-of-War Between Science and Nature

Food culture of the 1990s through the 2010s focused on a future that would resurrect idealized, if not imagined, notions of our agrarian past (e.g., pastoral…

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January 23, 2023 | Article

As Consumers tighten their belts…will Health and Wellness products get the squeeze?

Consumers, even those in lower-income households, have long told Hartman Group researchers that health and wellness priorities are important, if not sacred.…

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January 17, 2023 | Infographic

Consumer Attitudes Toward Science, Technology and the Challenges Facing the Food System

Our new report Food & Technology 2023 finds that over the past several years, a cascade of environmental, social, ethical, and health challenges has…

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January 09, 2023 | Article

New Hartman Report Insights: Food & Technology 2023

While the FoodTech industry is promising a revolution in food production, consumers remain guarded about innovations in the food they put in their bodies.…

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December 26, 2022 | Article

Year in Review: Top Hartman Infographics of 2022

Happy holidays – and cheers to the new year ahead. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and Hartman infographics take the pulse of consumer trends…

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