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Inside 2024 eating & drinking occasions

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

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…

Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2024: Underlying Currents of Change

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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April 01, 2024 | Report

Future of Snacking 2024: Balancing Intent with Indulgence

“Future of Snacking 2024” provides deeper understanding of where and why consumers make tradeoffs in their snack choices, which considerations are…

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February 21, 2024 | Report

Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2023: Settling Into a New Era

“Eating & Drinking Occasions Landscape 2023: Settling Into a New Era” looks back at the past five years to identify key shifts — and subsequent…

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January 29, 2024 | Report

Ideas in Food 2024

Ideas in Food details over a dozen concepts we see developing into trends over the next 3-5 years and explains the cultural context and implications behind…

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December 20, 2023 | Report

Taste of Tomorrow: Navigating Food through the Eyes of Gen Z and Alpha

“Taste of Tomorrow: Navigating Food Through the Eyes of Gen Z and Gen Alpha 2023” deciphers the influences that mold these consumers’ worldviews…

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October 09, 2023 | Report

Beverage Category Snapshots

Are you puzzled by shifting trends in your category’s consumption, occasions, and target consumer? Are internal stakeholders driving you crazy with…

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September 29, 2023 | Report

Sustainability 2023: Making Things Personal

“Sustainability 2023: Making Things Personal” builds on Hartman Group’s decades-long sustainability research to offer food and beverage companies…

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July 11, 2023 | Report

Reliance on Restaurants: An American Eating Occasions Perspective

Utilizing Hartman Group’s proprietary Compass Eating & Drinking Occasions Database, this report takes an in-depth look into restaurant occasions…

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June 30, 2023 | Report

Modern Beverage Culture 2023

“Modern Beverage Culture 2023” study explores how consumers engage with today’s rich beverage landscape, including cultural context, attitudes, behaviors…

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March 01, 2023 | Report

Health & Wellness 2023: Pets & Health

A supplement to “Health & Wellness 2023: The Great Wellness Reset”, “Pets and Health” explores both the impact pets have on their owners’…

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