Mintel, the world’s leading market intelligence agency, has announced three forward-looking trends which will lead the momentum of global food and drink innovation in 2019 and beyond. And you can download a FREE comprehensive report!
Provenance, authenticity and artisanal processes are transforming mainstream food-bev categories. The idea of “provenance” – having a back-story anchored in heritage and trust and perhaps made in a traditional, artisanal way – is now entering the strategies of largest companies, according to 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition and Health 2019, the annual trend report from New Nutrition Business.
Last year, the US market for energy drinks stood at $13.4-billion; according to Mintel that’s a 5.6 percent increase over the previous year. This, plus cold brew coffee’s increasing popularity and growing sales for functional beverages of various types, suggests that consumers are seeking beverages that can provide both physical and mental fuel throughout the 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.
For large beverage companies, the push into pot is all about the fear of missing out. After getting beat on trends including craft beer, coconut water, and flavoured seltzer, the drink giants don’t want to miss the next trendy ingredient: cannabis.
The tea and coffee markets have each successfully made the jump from hot to cold drink, the latter most recently with the cold brew and nitro coffee trends. Now, cocoa may be braced to make a similar transition into the chilled drinks fixture, reports Mintel.
Tesco is set to launch the ‘UK’s first’ non-alcoholic stout in response to the growing demand for no- and low-alcohol drinks from consumers in the UK.
Premium instant coffee. It sounds contradictory at first. Does such a thing even exist?
Starbucks has put its popular and super-decadent Frappuccino through a calorie makeover, looking to reduce the drink’s high sugar levels that have scared away increasingly health-conscious consumers and hurt sales.
Japanese beverage makers are increasingly producing products that look like water but taste like other drinks, betting that consumers want the taste of Coke or beer in a healthier-looking clear liquid.
The UK [and SA] sugar tax, which came into force in April 2018, has profoundly changed the outlook of the beverage industry. Some say that a wave of legislation is being driven by millennial concerns.
SodaStream has built a modern blended retail model that goes beyond traditional outlets and ecommerce.
Millennials are creating a mounting crisis for some of the most iconic beer brands in America.
Here's an interesting take on hangover-free wine: produce it so that it creates all of the pleasures but none of the after affects associated with imbibing alcohol... and it's dead-on trend with five key market-defining characteristics: authentic, natural, clean label, healthy, low sugar.
Powered by lactose-free innovation, dairy is challenging the surging growth of plant milks, with US sales of lactose-free milk set to catch up with – and perhaps even overtake – almond milk, reports New Nutrition Business.
RaboResearch's new report “How Coffee Will Look Different in Ten Years: Consumer-Driven Changes Will Reshape the Coffee World”, looks a decade ahead at key changes that could stir up the coffee market.
According to latest research from Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD), cold coffee has drinkers buzzing, as around one in five (19%) global new coffee launches was iced, ready-to-drink (RTD) in 2017, up from 16% in 2015.
The South African consumer landscape is set for a multitude of shifts in the next ten years, not least of which is the maturing of the local market with growth in the Generation X (35-49 year old) market segment set to outpace that in the Generation Y Millennial age group (26-34).
Millennials are turning the ancient beverage on its head — and crème brûlée and cream cheese toppings are just the beginning.