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Americans on Health

The number of American consumers who consider healthfulness when purchasing their food and beverages has shown a significant uptick in the past two years.
May 25, 2014
While taste and price consistently have been the top two factors that impact consumers’ food and beverage purchases (90% and 73% respectively), healthfulness in 2014 almost entirely closed the gap with price.
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Cost Impacting Healthy-eating Desire

Data indicate the great majority of low-income Americans not only understand the importance of healthy eating, but also that they want to know more about how to do so.
May 21, 2014
A study says 85% of low-income families think that eating healthy meals is important to them.
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Asking Y

Generation Y may be a difficult group to define, but it is an incredibly powerful demographic in terms of spending power.
William A. Roberts, Jr.
May 21, 2014
Generation Y, also known as the Millennial generation, can be a difficult group to quantify.
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New Product Pacesetters
New Product Trends

Best-Selling New Retail, C-store Products

Information Resources, Inc. released its “2013 New Product Pacesetters” report, in which the firm identifies last year’s most successful consumer packaged goods brands.
May 21, 2014
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), Chicago, released its “2013 New Product Pacesetters” report, in which the firm identifies last year’s most successful consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands.
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workout recovery, protein consumption

On the Brain

Cognitive health has proven quite a noteworthy trend in the nutraceutical arena and is making increasing in-roads into mainstream foods and beverages, as a sizable demographic explores options to retain its brain health as it reaches retirement age.
William A. Roberts, Jr.
May 20, 2014
Put simply, the surge in an older population has distinct consequences from a cognitive health perspective.
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Seniors and Food Insecurity

One in 12 seniors do not have access to adequate food due to lack of money or other financial resources.
April 29, 2014
Hand-in-hand with hunger goes a lower intake of calories, vitamins and other nutrients, which puts this demographic at risk for a wide variety of ailments.
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Food on Employee Morale

A survey examines the impact food and other perks have on company morale, satisfaction and loyalty.
April 27, 2014
Companies are offering more food-based perks, up 11% from 2013.
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Keeping It Private

Store brands have extended their multiyear period of growth.
April 23, 2014
In supermarkets, unit and dollar shares of private label products rose to 23.4% and 19.4%, respectively.
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Asking Y

As a whole, Generation Y will collectively spend more than $200 billion annually starting in 2017 and $10 trillion in their lifetimes, a significant portion of which will naturally be on foods and beverages.
April 13, 2014
While definitions of its exact scope vary, the buying power of Generation Y is both enormous and growing.
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William Robert, Jr.

Hope for the Fredos

This month sees the latest edition of Prepared Foods’ New Products Annual, a chance to revisit some of the products released over the past year.
William A. Roberts, Jr.
March 13, 2014
This month sees the latest edition of Prepared Foods’ New Products Annual, a chance to revisit some of the products released over the past year.
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