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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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Plant-Based as a Reflection of Modern Wellness Culture
Along with the many pandemic-driven changes in lifestyle countless households and individuals have faced during the pandemic, one of the most significant…
Learn moreWhose Brand Is It?
While some shoppers can be quite savvy about private brands and lean on them consciously in their shopping choices, many simply do not think along the…
Learn moreSustainability Today: Consumers’ Call for Action Only Gets Louder — and More Urgent
Sustainability is one of today’s biggest business challenges and opportunities. The problems facing the planet and its global citizens have not…
Learn moreChanging Role of Meals and Cooking in America: Consumer as Chef
Early in the pandemic, it got pretty hot in the average household’s kitchen as consumers quarantined at home and fully engaged with a range of cooking…
Learn morePath to Purchase: The Role of Brand in Guiding Shoppers’ Choices. Report Highlights.
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Learn moreWhat’s Next in Cooking and Meals?
Even though it’s likely a little hazy, we can all probably remember the big shifts that occurred in meal planning and cooking at the start of the pandemic:…
Learn moreChanging Role of Meals in America
Recent decades have seen a gradual erosion of American mealtime rituals. The Hartman Group’s Transformation of the American Meal report in 2017 found…
Learn morePrice Shocks for Food Culture: Is It Enough to Spur Brand Switching?
For consumers and businesses alike, headlines on rising food and beverage prices continue to underscore supply chain issues for food and beverage producers…
Learn moreAt the Dining Table 2021: American Meals and Cooking
“At the Dining Table 2021: American Meals and Cooking” takes stock of where two years of a national pandemic have left U.S. consumers amidst influences…
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