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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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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…
Learn moreDrink 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…
Learn moreMass 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…
Learn moreIntroducing 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…
Learn moreA 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…
Learn moreConsumer 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…
Learn moreNew 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…
Learn moreWhat’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…
Learn moreConsumer 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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