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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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"Quick" is still a part of "modern” convenience, but new ways of engaging with food and eating have become prevalent as consumers become more purpose-driven…
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Life is a little chaotic these days — maybe you’ve missed the wide range of insights we’ve worked on over the last six months about how consumers…
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The pandemic is causing elements of “modern” convenience to take on new meaning and relevance in line with shifting needs: Whereas traditional convenience…
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COVID-19 has caused a great deal of stress, anxiety, and disruption and, to boot, a lot of fatigue with a litany of tiresome chores and behaviors that…
Learn moreSnacking 2020: Emerging, Evolving and Disrupted
“Snacking 2020: Emerging, Evolving and Disrupted” provides deeper understanding of where and why consumers make tradeoffs in their snack choices, sourcing…
Learn moreThe Meaning of Convenience: Then & Now
Today, the call for convenience has never been louder. Convenience not for the sake of convenience but as something in service of other food and lifestyle…
Learn morePandemic Disruption: The Culture of Stress and Anxiety in America
Shelley Balanko, Hartman’s senior vice president, discusses the culture of stress and anxiety that Americans are living with. She describes how Covid-19…
Learn moreImprovising With Quarantine Pantries: How Daily Feast Helps Consumers Cook
With consumers stuck at home and cooking a lot more, they've been telling us at The Hartman Group that new sources of culinary inspiration for the foods…
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The Hartman Group’s Food + Technology 2019: From Plant-based to Lab-grown report found that purchasers of plant-based products are more open to cellular…
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