Articles Tagged with ''market trends''

The NPD Group Inc., Port Washington, N.Y., partnered with Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center on a study analyzing purchasing behavior of Millennials, Generation Xers and Boomers.

Editor-in-chief Marina Mayer outlines how physical activity calorie equivalent labels could impact the industry.

In the last year, significant numbers of Americans have changed their minds or behaviors around food and nutrition issues, with the media being a top driver of those changes, according to “Food Decision 2016: The Impact of a Growing National Food Dialogue."

America's longstanding love for cheese spurred growth in the natural and specialty cheese market, racking up $17 billion in sales in 2015, according to a report published by market research publisher Packaged Facts, Rockville, Md.

This report by A.T. Kearney provides five strategic insights for companies pursuing mergers and acquisitions in the consumer and retail industry.

Raw fruit and vegetables experienced an increased shelf life by up to one day in a study that involved produce being sprayed with an electrically-charged solution that kills bacteria responsible for spoilage.

In December 2015, Unata, a Canada-based provider of grocery retail solutions, in partnership with Environics Research, an evidence-based consultant also based in Canada, surveyed more than 500 online U.S. shoppers about their current and intended shopping habits for online grocery in 2016.

Superfoods are frequently marketed as the answer to consumers’ health woes, and now new research from Mintel, Chicago, highlights the popularity of these nutrient-packed foods.

The new research examined whether consumers prefer goods produced by global/multi-national brands (defined as those that operate in many markets) or by local players (those operating only in a single market—the respondent's home country), based on responses from more than 30,000 online respondents in 61 countries spanning 40 categories.