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Ideas in Food 2026
Ideas in Food 2026 unpacks 22 emerging trends that have the potential to develop into established trends over the next 3-5 years. These nascent ideas have…
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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The Importance of Climate Change When Shopping for Foods and Beverages
A key finding from The Hartman Group’s latest syndicated report, Sustainability 2021: Environment and Society in Focus shows that slightly more than…
Learn moreHartman/FMI Research Finds Halloween Trick-or-Treating Is Back
Hartman Group/FMI’s latest U.S. Grocery Shopping Trends Tracker research finds grocery shoppers are making their Halloween plans and 70% of consumers…
Learn moreWhose Brand Is It?
While some shoppers can be quite savvy about private brands and lean on them consciously in their shopping choices, many simply do not think along the…
Learn moreChanging Role of Meals and Cooking in America: Consumer as Chef
Early in the pandemic, it got pretty hot in the average household’s kitchen as consumers quarantined at home and fully engaged with a range of cooking…
Learn moreChanging Role of Meals in America
Recent decades have seen a gradual erosion of American mealtime rituals. The Hartman Group’s Transformation of the American Meal report in 2017 found…
Learn moreMyths & Realities Behind the Plant-based Trend
Consumer interest in plant-focused products and diets is high—whether it’s for one meal, one month, or frames a long-term approach to eating. Not just…
Learn moreHealthy Living Today and Weight Management: Consumers have a widespread desire to change body weight
As part of pandemic changes and due largely to a more sedentary shift to life at home, weight management continues to be a significant concern in the U.S.…
Learn moreChanges in How We Snack: Snacking, More So Than Meals, is Highly Vulnerable to Lifestyle Changes
Societal changes, and certainly global pandemics, affect each household differently, pushing their needs in different, sometimes divergent, directions.…
Learn moreFall 2021: Hope and Anxiety as Americans Return to School and the Office
The FMI-Hartman Group U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends Tracker: Back to School/Back to Office report reveals that as of early August 2021, parents expect a…
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