Featured reports from the just-food research store include innovation trends in sauces, and functional food marketing in Asia Pacific.
CONSUMERS
Consumer and Innovation Trends in Sauces, Dressings, and Condiments
Growth in home cooking has driven consumers to explore new flavours inspired by global cuisines. Sauces, dressings, and condiments offer a combination of convenience and versatility to enhance consumers' eating experiences. This report outlines relevant consumer and product trends impacting this category globally.
Food Ingredients Focus: Emerging Ingredients to Watch
Food ingredient innovation does not only have the ability to make or break many of today's new product launches; it can also pave the way toward market-changing developments. This presentation takes an in-depth look at food ingredient innovation, from products based on sustainable inputs like algae or biomass, to new salt replacers, sweeteners, proteins, and more.
FUNCTIONAL FOODS
Consumer Attitudes Towards Health Claims
Consumers are demonstrating a growing wave of skepticism toward health claims, making it increasingly difficult for functional food and drink manufacturers to build credibility and earn consumer trust. This presentation, given at the Vitafoods Asia Discussion Forum in September 2012, summarizes the opportunities and challenges associated with making health claims on functional food products.
The Next Wave of Functional Food Marketing in Asia Pacific
While health considerations exert a growing influence on consumer choices, consumers' approaches to addressing their health continue to evolve. Understanding how to help consumers achieve their wellness goals is critical for food and drink manufacturers, and this presentation highlights three key issues that will help industry players to navigate the multifaceted health and wellness space.
RETAIL
ForeSights: Highly Targeted Supermarket Layouts
This report allows you to consider emerging opportunities and threats in the consumer packaged goods market and gain insight into potential future consumer behaviour. Identify interesting new and emerging concepts, products, and ideas on offer in retail, foodservice, online spaces, and beyond.
Food and Grocery Retailing in Asia-Pacific: Market Guide to 2016
The report provides a top-level overview and detailed category insight into the operating environment for the Food and Grocery Retailing market in the Asia-Pacific. It is an essential tool for companies active across the retail value chain in the Asia-Pacific and for new players that are considering entering the market.
CASE STUDIES
Successes and Failures Case Study: Hippo Baked Munchies
Effective innovation is difficult to come by, but it is the key to sustained competitive advantage in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. Lessons can be learned from both successes and failures. This case study looks at how the Hippo snack brand in India capitalized on the real-time value of social media to help track inventory levels in a largely unorganized market.
Successes and Failures Case Study: Halls Confectionery
This case study looks at how Halls Confectionery has succeeded in the Chinese market. Through increasing brand presence in-store, investing in infrastructure to meet growing demand, and reformulating products to suit Chinese consumers, the brand has seen significant sales growth.
