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Occasions

Occasions

Reveal disruptive insights on food and beverage consumption

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Topics

Tap into foundational, trended topical research

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Marketplace

Navigate shifts across product categories, retail and food service

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March 10, 2025 | Infographic

Living vibrantly: The daily pursuit of vitality

As consumers prioritize improving their quality of life, vitality has emerged as the ideal of living well. Put simply, vitality is a daily pursuit of vibrancy…

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March 05, 2025 | Webinar

Inside 2024 eating & drinking occasions

This insightful webinar will share highlights from Hartman Group’s recently released report, “Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2024: Underlying…

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March 03, 2025 | White Paper

Value in an Environment of Uncertainty

While the staggering inflation of 2021-2022 has slowed, food prices remain high. The impacts of global trade tariffs are looming. And feelings of uncertainty…

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February 24, 2025 | Infographic

Is one-stop shopping dead?

Food and beverage sourcing has grown increasingly fragmented, leaving retailers eager to recruit more trips from more shoppers — or to grow basket sizes…

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February 20, 2025 | Article

Functional ferments: Talking gut health with Julie O’Brien, CEO of Firefly Kitchens

The gut health craze certainly isn’t new, but there is still a great deal of untapped potential for innovation — especially within the functional food…

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February 13, 2025 | Article

The democratization of premium indulgence

The notion that premium foods and beverages are reserved for a particular class of consumers has faded. Today’s shoppers increasingly seek indulgence…

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January 29, 2025 | Webinar

Inside “Premiumization and Everyday Value(s) 2025”

This free webinar will provide a sneak peek at key insights from the report, "Premiumization and Everyday Value(s)", which uncovers the consumer perspective…

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Understanding differences in how eating behaviors shift across the day and by generational cohorts — as they did in 2024 — is key to finding new opportunities.…

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Gone are the days when premium was solely associated with high prices and exclusivity. “Premiumization & Everyday Value(s) 2025” explores contemporary…

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Spontaneous occasions account for 53% of all adult occasions, amounting to 192 billion mouths annually. While these occasions tend to be motivated by hunger, planned…

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