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Organic Soups to Reach $2.5 Million by 2022

Ready to serve wet soup to be leading product type
October 10, 2017
The soaring popularity of packaged soups that score high on the troika of health, flavor, and convenience is a prominent trend stoking the demand for organic soups in the soup market.
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Innovating Across Market Segments

IRI report shows how consumer packaged goods players can win by rethinking old market-sizing assumptions
October 6, 2017
Competing across categories calls for big shifts in pricing, messaging, packaging and more — starting with a major change in mindset.
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Clean Labels, Clean Snacking

Study examines the $41 Billion Future of the US Candy Market
October 4, 2017
Many burgeoning areas in the candy industry show the effect of the clean snacking philosophy.  This includes bite-size snacking chocolate in thins and barks, fruit & chocolate snacks, high cacao dark chocolate, and the many new clean label products. 
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Majority of Grocery Sales Now Influenced by Digital

Digital's influence on grocery overall has nearly doubled year over year and has similarly driven increasing impact on the in-store shopping experience
September 28, 2017
More than half of grocery sales are digitally-influenced, according to a new survey report from Deloitte.
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Millennials Focus on Fresh, Fitness and Flavor

New study confirms millennials' pivotal role in upending long-standing "truths" within the food, beverage and supplement categories
September 28, 2017
The study covered a one-year period ending August 2017. Women created 62%t of the content; men 38%t. More than 80%t of the content and posts appeared on social media platforms.
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Today’s Millennial: Tomorrow’s Organic Parent

Organic Trade Association survey signals big new wave of organic consumers on the horizon
September 25, 2017
Twenty-five percent of the Millennials in America are parents. In the next 10 to 15 years, 80% of Millennials will be moms and dads. What this means for the organic market could be transformative.
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Driving the Popularity of Ethnic Flavors

Shipments of curries and chili peppers to foodservice outlets grow by double-digits
September 19, 2017
The affinity US consumers continue to show for ethnic flavors and dishes is supported by the fact that 755 of US adults, especially young adults, are open to trying new foods, reports The NPD Group, a leading global information company.
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Organic Foods Broaden Competitive Fray

The competitive paradigm has shifted from natural food chains pitted against each other into a more expansive battle in supermarkets
September 15, 2017
Packaged Facts’ national consumer survey data published in the new report Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Natural Channel Grocery Shopping reveal that, even among adults overall, at least half somewhat or strongly agree that organic fruits and vegetables—the mothership grocery department of the organic movement—are more nutritious, healthier, and taste better compared with their standard counterparts.
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