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Behind the scenes of "Sustainability 2025: Do Consumers Care?"
Despite inflation, the need for convenience and waning resonance of the term ‘sustainability,’ consumers still care about the issues. In this webinar, take…
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…
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COVID-19: The Disruptive Force That Defined 2020. What We Will Explore in 2021.
It would be a gross understatement to say that many, many, many Americans can’t wait to put 2020 in the rearview mirror. Inarguably, COVID-19 has…
Learn moreDeliver the Goods: Our Interview With Luke Saunders, Founder and CEO, Farmer’s Fridge
With consumer grocery shopping, cooking and eating behavior upended by the pandemic, what better time to catch up with Luke Saunders, Founder and CEO of…
Learn moreThe Rise of Online Grocery During COVID-19
If 2020 is the year of the pandemic, it is also the year of online grocery shopping: Already on the rise in recent years, participation in online grocery…
Learn moreQuotable: Insights From the Voices of Experience
Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of interviewing visionary founders, CEOs, culinary experts, entrepreneurs and cultural influencers from across…
Learn moreCOVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating: Seven Takeaways from New Report
The Hartman Group’s COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating report picks up where an earlier analysis left off and highlights how eating and drinking…
Learn moreUnderstanding COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating Behaviors and Occasions
The Hartman Group’s COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating report picks up where an earlier report left off and highlights how eating and drinking behavior…
Learn moreCOVID-19: Top Adjustments Made to How We Shop for Food
84% of U.S. adult shoppers say they’ve adjusted how they shop for food due to COVID-19: our Food Sourcing in America July/August 2020 report finds that…
Learn moreCOVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating – Fall 2020
As we first reported in COVID-19’s Impact on Eating in spring 2020, the basic rhythms of meals and snacks were virtually unaffected across dayparts (i.e., Americans…
Learn moreCOVID-19’s Impacts on Food Shopping: How We “Source” Today
In years past, Hartman Group reports on consumer grocery shopping behavior (for example, Food Shopping in America 2017) nearly always had the word "shopping"…
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