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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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Hartman/FMI Signature Consumer Research Evaluates Impact of COVID-19 on Grocery Shopper Habits
The Food Industry Association (FMI) released its annual U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report, which extensively tracks consumer grocery shopping habits.…
Learn moreThe Culture of Organic Today: Who Buys Organic and Why
Our minds are preoccupied with the impact of COVID-19 on how we live and work — and understandably so. But in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, consumers…
Learn moreThree Findings From Hartman/FMI U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker Report (Apr. 29-May 10, 2020)
From the outset, it was evident that the coronavirus pandemic would not be a short-lived event. It has profoundly changed our world — and continues to…
Learn moreDisruption in the Dairy Aisle: Califia Farms’ CEO Weighs In on the Power of Plant-Based Beverages
Even in the Pandemic, Consumers Are Pursuing Alternative Dairy Beverages From a Leading-Edge Brand.The COVID-19 pandemic has not slowed consumer demand…
Learn moreCOVID-19: With Limited Ingredients and a Surplus of Time, Home Cooks Are Learning to Improvise Like Never Before
Rapidly shifting routines and habits around meal preparation and eating are helping consumers feel more empowered.With health and government officials…
Learn moreShoppers Praise Grocers’ Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
U.S. grocery shoppers are highly concerned about the coronavirus pandemic. The Hartman Group/FMI U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker report from…
Learn moreWellness During Anxious Times: Consumers Were Already Stressed Prior to COVID-19
Consumers are pretty freaked out today. Rightly so. Trying to wrap our collective heads around the unseen and the unknown can be exasperating and exhausting…
Learn moreGenerational Trends: Boomers’ Expectations of Food and Beverage
By the dawn of the next decade, one in every five U.S. residents will be retirement age, according to the U.S. Census bureau’s 2017 National Population…
Learn moreOpportunities in Functional Foods & Beverages and Supplements 2020 in the Age of Coronavirus
Functional foods and beverages continue to entice companies across today’s food and beverage landscape as we find consumers increasingly embracing…
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