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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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May 21, 2023 | Infographic

Preview: Hartman Group 2024 Syndicated Study Lineup

What’s next for the food and beverage industry in 2024? Our next year of research will keep you on the cutting edge of food culture, from the world…

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May 15, 2023 | Infographic

Drink as I aspire, not as I do!

Parenting is fraught with challenges, and encouraging a healthy diet for one’s kids is certainly among them. The adage, “Do as I say, not as…

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April 18, 2023 | Infographic

Mass maintains grocery growth

Just released research conducted by FMI, The Food Industry Association, and The Hartman Group confirms the Grocery channel continues to lose consumers…

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April 03, 2023 | Infographic

Introducing the Great Wellness Reset 2023

2023 is the year of the Great Wellness Reset. In Health and Wellness 2023 we learned consumer culture is not COVID-free, but consumers have a new perspective…

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January 31, 2023 | Infographic

A Sustainable Food System Might Be The Prize in a Tug-of-War Between Science and Nature

Food culture of the 1990s through the 2010s focused on a future that would resurrect idealized, if not imagined, notions of our agrarian past (e.g., pastoral…

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January 17, 2023 | Infographic

Consumer Attitudes Toward Science, Technology and the Challenges Facing the Food System

Our new report Food & Technology 2023 finds that over the past several years, a cascade of environmental, social, ethical, and health challenges has…

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December 12, 2022 | Infographic

New Study Underway: Health & Wellness 2023

Health & Wellness 2023 is underway: The study provides current, in-depth insights into underlying motivations and behaviors for how and why consumers…

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December 05, 2022 | Infographic

What’s Important When Choosing to Dine at a Restaurant — Spotlight on Hartman’s Compass Eating Occasions Database

With the pandemic in their rear-view mirror, consumers are dining out – but what influences their choice of restaurants? Consumer eating and drinking…

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November 21, 2022 | Infographic

Consumer Meals, Eating Behavior & Occasions Reports & Research

The slideshow highlights the following reports and areas of research: At the Dining Table 2021: American Meals and Cooking report: This report takes…

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