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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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Opportunities 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…
Learn moreOur Commitment to You: Leadership and Consumer Understanding During These Uncertain Times
These are most certainly unprecedented times for all of us and while the message of the day may be to “self-isolate,” we want you to know that…
Learn moreMaintaining Cultural Connections Through Cooking at Home or Dining Out
International aisles in retail versus international cuisine at restaurants: the case for sharing Global flavors are a large market opportunity as the…
Learn moreThe State of Sustainability Today: Dramatic Shifts in Consumer Sentiment in the Face of Growing Challenges
Heightened Challenges and Institutional Inaction Fuel Consumers’ Hunger for ProgressHow perplexing, yet essential, is it for consumers to make sense…
Learn moreFive Things You Should Know About Consumers and Plant-Based Foods
Described by Nestlé recently as a “once in a generation opportunity,” the fervor over plant-based foods and beverages continues at a fearsome pace.…
Learn moreHealthy Living & Eating Today: Tapping Into Personalized Nutrition
How we think about and understand nutrition and our bodies is ever evolving as food literacy continues to grow. And if there is one aspect of wellness…
Learn moreThe Big Bet on Bugs. Providing Palatable Alternative Proteins for Consumers
Our interview with Jason Jones, the head of Exo Protein, cricket protein bars.Food manufacturers are betting that new protein sources are likely to become…
Learn moreHow America Eats 2020: United in How We Eat, Diverse in What We Eat
Among diverse ethnicities and immigration history, consumers tend to behave similarly around cost, convenience, and snacking but have larger differences…
Learn moreWhat’s Beyond Organic? Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health May Provide a Glimpse
In 1997, The Hartman Group was in its second year of examining consumer perceptions of food in relation to "earth sustainability" in its Food and the Environment…
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