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Claims and Cues 2026: Category Attribute Playbook

Claims and Cues 2026: Category Attribute Playbook will crack the code on what drives purchase today across 20+ categories. Discover how cultural change, on-pack…

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.…

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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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January 29, 2024 | Report

Ideas in Food 2024

Ideas in Food details over a dozen concepts we see developing into trends over the next 3-5 years and explains the cultural context and implications behind…

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December 20, 2023 | Report

Taste of Tomorrow: Navigating Food through the Eyes of Gen Z and Alpha

“Taste of Tomorrow: Navigating Food Through the Eyes of Gen Z and Gen Alpha 2023” deciphers the influences that mold these consumers’ worldviews…

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October 09, 2023 | Report

Beverage Category Snapshots

Are you puzzled by shifting trends in your category’s consumption, occasions, and target consumer? Are internal stakeholders driving you crazy with…

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September 29, 2023 | Report

Sustainability 2023: Making Things Personal

“Sustainability 2023: Making Things Personal” builds on Hartman Group’s decades-long sustainability research to offer food and beverage companies…

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July 11, 2023 | Report

Reliance on Restaurants: An American Eating Occasions Perspective

Utilizing Hartman Group’s proprietary Compass Eating & Drinking Occasions Database, this report takes an in-depth look into restaurant occasions…

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June 30, 2023 | Report

Modern Beverage Culture 2023

“Modern Beverage Culture 2023” study explores how consumers engage with today’s rich beverage landscape, including cultural context, attitudes, behaviors…

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March 01, 2023 | Report

Health & Wellness 2023: Pets & Health

A supplement to “Health & Wellness 2023: The Great Wellness Reset”, “Pets and Health” explores both the impact pets have on their owners’…

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March 31, 2023 | Report

Health & Wellness 2023: The Great Wellness Reset

“Health & Wellness: The Great Wellness Reset 2023” includes the latest findings from Hartman Group’s long running consumer-centric study of the…

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February 16, 2023 | Report

A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions Report

“A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions” highlights U.S. adult eating behaviors in 2022, how aspects have shifted from previous years, and…

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