May 2012/Prepared Foods -- Give Greece some credit: For a relatively small country, it sure knows how to shake things up. First, it was financial markets; now, it is yogurt.
This gold rush helped unleash a stampede of new entrants, so much so that Greek-style yogurts accounted for nearly 26% of all new yogurt introductions in the U.S. in 2011 vs. around 9% in 2008, according to Datamonitor’s Product Launch Analytics database of new products.