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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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March 24, 2025 | Infographic

Power to private brands

As food sourcing becomes more fragmented, it is critical to understand when and how private brand offerings factor into decisions around where to shop…

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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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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 10, 2025 | Infographic

Diving back into dinner

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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January 27, 2025 | Infographic

Willpower and wellness

Love them or hate them, ‘tis the season of resolutions. Many of your customers are actively pursuing a new goal or revisiting an old one they didn’t…

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January 13, 2025 | Infographic

Shifting perspectives

Over the last decade, consumers’ quality definitions have shifted to focus more on food production (such as minimal processing and sustainable production)…

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December 18, 2024 | Infographic

Trends are changing, but these key themes aren’t

Taking a break from your last-minute holiday shopping to read yet another trend report? Are you struggling to see the forest through the trees? Rather…

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December 16, 2024 | Infographic

Model behavior: who influences health & wellness trends?

All consumers participate in health and wellness to some degree, but their specific attitudes and behaviors can vary widely. By segmenting consumers based…

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November 25, 2024 | Infographic

Elevating everyday

Premium used to carry notions of “fancy” and “foodie” — it was exclusive. And while Americans still turn to premium foods and beverages for special…

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