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Are Consumers Turning to More Active Nutrition Products?

March 3, 2020

The sports nutrition market has become more mainstream, whilst dedicated gym goers and sports people may have seen products as purely functional, everyday consumers want sports nutrition products that they can easily incorporate into everyday routines. Consumers are taking a more proactive, holistic and long-term approach to health. This means that there is a significant opportunity for brands of nutritious, “better-for-you” products to target these consumers. So, is the everyday consumer actively looking for sports nutrition products?

Study addresses growth of private label in U.S. market

The acceleration of U.S. private label sales growth saw an uptick from 2.2% in 2015 to 5.8% in 2018, with annual sales growing four times faster than national brands.

November 1, 2019

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A new study released from Coresight Research, New York, addresses the growth of private label in today’s U.S. market.

Study: Sales of products with sustainable attributes make up 22% of total store

Organic, sustainable and clean attributes are driving the majority of the sustainable category’s growth.

December 18, 2018

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Projected sales from Nielsen, Chicago, echo the steady climb that the sustainability market has experienced in recent years.

Study: Shoppers demand greater transparency in 2019

An increasing amount of grocery retailers are creating transparency-driven in-store and online experiences focused on delivering better health and wellness information to the consumer.

December 18, 2018

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Label Insight revealed the Top 3 trends for 2019 based on the consumer mandate for transparency.

Study finds pureed pork supports infant growth

New research suggests meat-fed infants (complementary to formula or breastfeeding) could have an advantage when it comes to early length growth.

May 2, 2018

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Meat, such as pork, can be an important source of much-needed protein in an infant’s diet during the transition to solid foods, according to new research from the University of Colorado, Denver, Colo.

Survey shows industry merging physical, digital retail

This year’s data reveals that 43% of store-based retailers surveyed expect a net increase in the number of brick-and-mortar stores they operate by the end of 2018 compared with 2017.

March 16, 2018

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Traditional and online retailing are increasingly intertwined, as customers shop across touchpoints and use both platforms, according to the annual State of Retailing Online study released by the National Retail Federation (NRF), Washington, D.C., and Forrester, Cambridge, Mass.

Report: Private label vs. national brands

The findings reveals that 85% of respondents state they trust private brand products at least as much as national brands.

February 21, 2018

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Daymon, a Stamford, Conn.-based subsidiary of Advantage Solutions, released its first-ever Private Brand Intelligence Report, which provides a “State of the Industry” analysis on how private brands stack up against national brands.

Research reveals uptick in processed foods consumption in Canada

. The highest consumers are kids ages 9-13 who get 57% of their calories from energy-dense, nutritionally-lacking products.

February 9, 2018

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New research commissioned by Heart & Stroke, a Canadian charity dedicated to advocacy, education and the funding of research surrounding heart disease and stroke, shows that ultra-processed food consumption in Canada continues to increase and is alarmingly high, accounting for almost half of the daily calorie intake.

Survey: Consumers go with their gut in the grocery aisles

Now In its sixth year, the study surveyed 2,050 registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) to expose what RDNs predict consumers are thinking and eating.

December 21, 2017

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Fermented foods – like yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, some pickles, kimchi and miso – ousted seeds as the No. 1 superfood for 2018.

Study: Breakthrough technologies enable food safety in dairy industry

Partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, co-development and other collaborative models are best suited to leverage new technology in the design of smart solutions.

August 29, 2017

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The advent of novel technologies in the fields of life science development, advanced material design, microelectronics and nanotechnology, advanced thermodynamics, food engineering and processing and Internet of Things (IoT) innovations are converging through food safety testing applications and smart food safety management.