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GLP-1s: Seizing Opportunity in a New CPG Landscape
The food industry's silver bullet for highly profitable, craveable foods is being met with a competing silver bullet for resisting them. As GLP1 adoption…
The impact of GLP-1s in an era of disruption
We’re excited to share that our latest white paper offers critical insight into this highly sought-after topic, exploring how GLP-1 adoption is reshaping…
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…
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Price 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…
Learn moreMyths & Realities Behind the Plant-based Trend
Consumer interest in plant-focused products and diets is high—whether it’s for one meal, one month, or frames a long-term approach to eating. Not just…
Learn moreA Worldview on Sustainability: Findings From Hartman’s Health & Wellness Across the Globe Report
Consumers across the globe tend to be most optimistic about the future of their families and most pessimistic about the future of the planet. This relatively…
Learn moreHealthy Living Today and Weight Management: Consumers have a widespread desire to change body weight
As part of pandemic changes and due largely to a more sedentary shift to life at home, weight management continues to be a significant concern in the U.S.…
Learn moreThree Big Findings from Our Health & Wellness: Reimagining Well-being Amid COVID-19 Report
It took a pandemic to upend life as we know it, prompting Americans to rethink their notions around health & wellness aspirations and behaviors. Our…
Learn moreWe Really Should Talk. Your Consumers Are Telling Us Things You’ll Want to Know About Opportunities for Your Brands.
Consumers, however, are not innovators. They look to food and beverage companies to lead in innovation. They look to you to come up with the new products…
Learn moreChanges in How We Snack: Snacking, More So Than Meals, is Highly Vulnerable to Lifestyle Changes
Societal changes, and certainly global pandemics, affect each household differently, pushing their needs in different, sometimes divergent, directions.…
Learn moreThe Joy of Snacking: An Avenue for Discovery of New Flavor Experiences—Particularly Among Younger Consumers
If you’re looking to boost snack sales, then among a broad range of snack selection criteria, great taste represents a key baseline requirement.…
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