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The Natural Candy Category and Healthier Options for Halloween
With Halloween comes candy. However, today's candy aisle is full of innovation and equipped to offer consumers many healthier choices. In natural supermarkets and conventional FDM outlets, sales of natural and organic candy are increasing at a high rate, clearly indicating that consumers are buying healthier options when available. Growth of organic candy continues to surpass that of the overall category. read more
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Anti-aging due a $4 billion lift this year
What Boomers and Matures say about aging naturally, versus what they actually do to keep looking as young as they feel, undoubtedly has some gray spaces. It seems that private primp time in front of the bathroom mirror leads millions of older adult Americans to want to turn back the years.
While most Boomers (64% of those born between 1946 and 1964) and Matures (72% of those born earlier) advocate "aging naturally," more than half also feel "it's important to remain and feel as young as possible."
So describes Focalyst, LLC, the joint venture between AARP and The Kantar Group, the division of marketing insight giant WPP that specializes in consumers 50 and older. read more
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'Looking good' trend led by metrosexuals
The world's embrace of metrosexual males has raised pressure on everyone to look good. If the likes of George Clooney, Bono and Brad Pitt have the masculinity and confidence to groom, moisturize and more, so can the Average Joe, Jacques or Jose.
Regardless of continent, culture, age or gender, looking good is a heightened societal expectation, believe the vast majority of 26,486 consumers surveyed online by Nielsen Customized Research on their attitudes towards and buying habits of health and beauty. read more
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The Acculturation Continuum - And Why It Matters
New research from The Nielsen Company's Homescan research suggests that as Hispanic consumers in the US become more acculturated, they actually show diminished brand loyalty.
Here's a statistic that makes the case:
Seventy percent of Hispanic homes where Spanish is the preferred language of communication tend to buy the same carbonated beverage brand over and over. But in Hispanic households where English is either preferred or the only language spoken, that brand loyalty drops to 33 percent. read more
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Is tide turning in bottled waters?
Suddenly, the once clear growth prospects of still bottled water are cloudier than at any time in recent years. The dull economy and falling dollar have consumers wondering if they need to keep paying when tap water is free and usually safe and tasty, when millions of plastic bottles each year are affecting the environment, when a major brand became known for sourcing its product from public water supplies, and when drinkers wrestle their collective conscience over U.S. read more
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Will food price increase stunt future growth?
The secret of food price inflation is coming out, and the 12-month rise is stunning in some staplesmore than 13 percent in fresh whole milk, 17 percent in frozen juices and 19 percent in eggs, according to U.S. Commerce Department figures reported by McClatchy.
The question is whether these rapid climbs, which are no longer well concealed by the broader Consumer Price Index, will negatively affect unit volumes in U.S. read more
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Guiding Stars" Program Proves Customers Want & Need Nutrition Guidance
One year after Hannaford Supermarkets, a 160-store supermarket chain in the northeastern United States, launched its "Guiding Stars" program - designed to help customers choose nutritious foods by grading the good, better and best products with one, two and three stars - the company has found that sales of many designated items have improved significantly compared to a year ago. The evidence seems to suggest that when shoppers are given usable, credible nutrition information about the products they are buying, they will act on it. read more
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CHANNEL WATCH
The Nielsen Company estimates that in 2006, over $4.1 billion was spent across all retail channels in the nut category which includes nuts in bags, cans, jars, and unshelled nuts.
The following slides indicate the percentage of households who buy each type of nuts, a sampling of higher indexing household types who buy products in the overall nuts category, and channel share of category dollar sales. read more
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"The" Carbon Footprint
With all the headlines and focus on sustainability and the carbon footprint it's so easy to feel helpless about the troubling impact we humans are having on our planet; you want to do something both personally and corporately, but it's confusing on where to begin? The issue can be overwhelming.
One of the best places to start is on the web based carbon footprint calculators that make taking the first steps less intimidating. read more
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U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2007
FMI's best-selling report, U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends, tracks the consumer environment as well as the attitudes and behaviors of American consumers as they relate to and impact the food industry. The report focuses on better data and knowledge of the grocery shopper, understanding the role of food and nutrition in today's society and providing retailers and suppliers with operationally useful information needed in serving, communicating and improving relations with their customers. read more
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Food, Nutrition & Science
We've just launched a brand new monthly newsletter: Food, Nutrition, & Science from The Lempert Report.
Our mission is to provide retailers and brands with the latest food news and the tools needed to better serve and empower our shoppers to make the best food choices possible. Each issue will contain interviews with leading researchers, nutritionists and trend setters. read more
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Management Compensation Study for Retailers and Wholesalers 2006-2007
The 2006-2007 Management Compensation Study is the industry's most comprehensive source of salary and benefits data. Representing nearly one million employees, 56 companies located around the country shared their salary and benefits information.
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Speaks
FMI's Speaks is the annual state of the industry report a must-have for everyone in the food industry. The report reviews important changes affecting the industry that took place in 2006 and evaluates industry performance in sales, profits, margins and productivity measures. It presents detailed information on supermarket operations, store-level benchmarks and outlines strategic and competitive issues. read more
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Whether it is the release of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Halloween or Hispanic Heritage month, retailers should take full advantage of the piñata of opportunities these occasions have to offer. Special promotions, new and different products, recipes, and in-store or community activities geared towards the Latino culture can be great ways to expand the market basket of current shoppers or even attract new customers by offering a fun alternative for tonight's dinner. 
Retailers have historically used absolute sales and sales growth as the primary metrics for measuring category success. While sales-based category worth measures are key metrics, they can miss a category's ability to attract shoppers, buyers, trips and spending within a retailer's stores. In a retail environment where categories can be sold in diverse retail formats and where manufacturers and retailers speak in terms like "consumer is king," a better approach is one that also examines category shopper and category buyer dynamics. 
