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Sure, it helps a lot to be in the snacking business. About 75% of consumers around the world snack daily. Young people in particular routinely forego traditional meals for snacks. In the US, millennials snack more than four times per day.
Phil Lempert, known as 'The SupermarketGuru', is one of America’s leading food and consumer trend-watchers and analysts. Here's his report on what trend-setting US retailer, Whole Foods - now owned by Amazon - predicts for the F&B development in 2019.
Targeting increasingly adventurous consumers, set on new discoveries and experiences, will be key to developments in the food and beverage industry in 2019, asserts Innova in its latest report on trends for 2019.
With the launch of Peckish, a fresh snacking platform centred around eggs, food incubator and investor Sonoma Brands is aiming to bring the same attention to the humble egg as founder, Jon Sebastiani, did for meat snacks at his previous company, KRAVE Jerky.
Mondelez International recently revealed the company’s new tagline — “Snacking Made Right” — as CEO Dirk Van de Put rolled out a new strategic plan to get its growth back on track.
In 2014, $300-million was wiped off breakfast cereal sales in the US. But this money didn't disappear. Instead, $70-million of it was diverted to increase the sales of one of the biggest disruptive innovations in the breakfast category, Belvita breakfast biscuits. The rest went to...
The share of nuts in global snack foods launches has risen steadily in recent years as nuts have found increasing favour as convenient and nutritious snacks, and technology and innovative packaging has allowed development of the value-added category in particular, according to Innova Market Insights....
The recently released Harvard study on the health benefits of eating nuts just confirmed what health conscious-consumers already tell us, that nuts are good for you, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company....
PepsiCo/Simba is marking the 40th birthday of one of South Africa’s enduringly favourite snacks, NikNaks or amaNikNaks as its affectionately known in the township, with a new Spicy Beef flavour to complement the current range of Original Cheese and Fruit Chutney.
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People may ponder a Twinkie’s shelf life, but the brand name has lasting power, too. The food industry may draw four lessons from the anticipated July 15 return of Twinkies [today!] which have been off retail shelves for months, according to a report "The Return...
The nutrition bars sector continues to enjoy rising levels of interest, in line with or even ahead of the market for cereal bars as a whole. Growth in the sector has reflected rising interest in healthy and convenient snacks suitable for consumption on-the-go, reports Innova....
Cadbury in the UK has been busy in the first half of 2013, with several interesting new launches. Among them is Cadbury Crunchums – a snack of crispy cereal bites coated in Cadbury chocolate. [Click pic to enlarge]
Did you know that eating alone has become as normal as eating together? Eating alone is fast becoming the new normal. The Hartman Group’s analysis of how we eat as a culture shows that today a fairly astounding 46% of all adult eating occasions (up...
Think having sex or going to gym class drives weight loss, or that breastfeeding protects a child from obesity? In fact, these are among seven popular obesity myths, according to an article published today in the New...
Fresh fruit is not only the top snack food consumed in America, it is also one of the fastest growing, according to new snacking research from The NPD Group, a leading global information company. NPD’s recently released Snacking in America report finds that...
“We set out to do something completely different by applying the science of one product to another,” says Keith Belling, CEO and co-founder of popchips, the omnipresent US snack food. He’s referring to his 2005 purchase and conversion of a rice-cake plant in LA, retooled...
Popcorn, outside of the US, is perhaps best known as the stuff that cinemas entice patrons to eat while openly fleecing them. But aside from those salty, sweet, unhealthy and obscenely-priced bucketloads, it is now one of the fastest-growing segments in the UK's highly competitive...
Now here's an "Only in America!" story...
The latest addition to the McCain potato range is the limited edition McCain Crispy Bites, tasty, bite-size chips designed for dipping and sharing and ideal for entertaining. ...
Research company, The Hartman Group in the US, has spent more than twenty years exploring the mainstream and fringes of food culture. Here is a sampling of 20 [American] trends that, it notes, have influenced food culture in sweet and sour ways....