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Live Q&A: Inside the Digital Food Culture Gap

This webinar explored how consumers want technology to fit into their everyday food experiences, with experts breaking down key behaviors, expectations, and…

Food and Technology 2026: The Digital Food Culture Gap

Digital food culture is accelerating—and so are the tensions shaping consumer trust, aspiration and action. “Food and Technology 2026” delivers a…

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February 21, 2024 | Report

Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2023: Settling Into a New Era

“Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2023: Settling Into a New Era” looks back at the past five years to identify key shifts — and subsequent…

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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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