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Say hello to Craig Dubitsky, an award-winning innovator and founder of Hello Products, a Montclair, N.J., oral care company taking on this $30B daily-use category.

She’s ranked among the nation’s top 50 futurists. However, Nancy Giordano, founder of Play Big Inc., Austin, Texas, brings so much more to the table! Nancy also is a veteran strategist who strives to better leverage the powerful possibilities that exist at the intersection of business trends, societal needs and authentic brand stories.

As the US Hispanic population continues to grow in size and influence, Acosta, a full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, and Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), a media company serving Hispanic America, have released the 5th Edition of The Why? Behind The Buy™ US Hispanic Shopper Study. This new research explores the buying patterns and behaviors of these highly experiential shoppers and provides insights CPG brands and retailers can leverage to better appeal to and connect with this important shopper segment.

Currently, only 12% of consumers rank brands as their most trusted resource for information about what is in their own food, but 67% of consumers believe it is the brand or manufacturer's responsibility to provide consumers with this information, demonstrating a clear gap between consumer expectations and the information brands are providing.

From bites, barks and thins to unconventional ingredients, the newest products continue to evolve.

The clean label trend (which is dominating the conversation in the food industry) isn’t so much a trend anymore, but a “movement.” This is a common thing I’m hearing when talking to dairy processors and suppliers lately. With consumers making it very clear what it is they want, more food manufacturers are recognizing this movement and are answering the call with new product innovation, more transparency about what they use, changing the ingredients, or in some cases, all of these things.

Top food corporations have been persuaded since January 2014 by Green America's GMO Inside campaign and its supporters to remove genetically engineered (GE) ingredients from their products, and offer organic options and products made without genetically modified organisms (GMOs).