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Meals 2026: From Structure to Flexibility

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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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March 31, 2023 | Report

Health & Wellness 2023: The Great Wellness Reset

“Health & Wellness: The Great Wellness Reset 2023” includes the latest findings from Hartman Group’s long running consumer-centric study of the…

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February 16, 2023 | Report

A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions Report

“A New Landscape of Eating: 2022 Eating Occasions” highlights U.S. adult eating behaviors in 2022, how aspects have shifted from previous years, and…

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January 09, 2023 | Report

Food & Technology 2023

“Food & Technology 2023” explores the consumer perspective on FoodTech — scientific and technological innovation in and around food. The report…

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October 03, 2022 | Report

Food Sourcing in America 2022

“Food Sourcing in America 2022” is the latest in Hartman Group’s research series has tracked food shopping (and, more broadly, food sourcing) trends…

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June 01, 2022 | Report

Modern Approaches to Eating 2022

“Modern Approaches to Eating” explores in-depth the spectrum of eating approaches that consumers pursue today, along with the attitudes, needs and…

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