Brand Ambition: Food and Beverage Private Brands & Beyond

Brands have traditionally been a powerful system of influence in consumer food culture. 

For many decades, food and beverage companies have invested significant resources in building their brands, carefully crafting an image they sought to project onto target consumer groups. Such efforts resulted in offering consumers a broad selection of unique products that span established national brands, popular local choices, creative emerging brands… and more recently retailers’ own private brands. “Brand Ambition: Food and Beverage Private Brands & Beyond” report examines how trends in the American cultural landscape have affected the role brands play in consumers’ food lives today and provides future-looking guidance in several areas of possibilities: pricing, attributes, innovation, and operating in today’s online environment. 

Published June 2021 | Report length: 105 pages | U.S. market coverage

  • General report (PowerPoint and PDF)
  • Demographic data tables (Excel)

  • Primary Quantitative Research: An online survey fielded May 2021 of 2,205 U.S. primary shoppers aged 18-75. Readable samples of standard demographics (e.g., gender, generational cohorts, children in household).
  • Primary Qualitative Research: One-week engagement (journaling, special prompts, photos, and videos) with participants across the U.S. using an online qualitative research platform, paired with in-depth, follow-up virtual interviews with a subset of participants.

  • Methodology 
  • Executive Summary 
  • Chapter 1. What Is a Brand in 2021? 
  • Chapter 2. What Is the Role of Private Brands? 
  • Chapter 3. How Does Category Affect Brand Choices? 
  • Chapter 4. What's Next? 
  • Implications and Recommendations 

  • Trends in the American cultural landscape affecting brands 
  • Relevance of brands and consumer expectations of brands today
  • Private brands vs. name brands across a range of purchase criteria
  • Perceptions of value vs. premium/organic/better-for-you private brands
  • How category affects brand choice and loyalty
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Published June 2021
Price: $15,000
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