Chicago / IL. (mi) Mintel market research announced the four key trends set to impact North American consumer markets over the coming year. With surprises at every turn and vague uncertainty gripping Americans and Canadians daily, being attuned to consumer trends across transparency, value...

Chicago / IL. (mi) Mintel market research revealed the key consumer trends set to impact Europe in 2018. Over the coming year: Consumers will take to the seas to reel in recycling as a new wave of marine conservation emerges. Digital disclosure legislation and hacks will see Europeans...

New York / NY. (pmr) A The global cookies market has come into the limelight in recent years as a result of flavour, taste, shape, and packaging innovations mainly driven by health and safety concerns from both regulatory authorities as well as consumers. Cookies are typically eaten as an anytime...

Groot Bijgaarden / BE. (pnv) Belgian Puratos Group, leading innovator in the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate industry, launches a Virtual Innovation Center to support their customers in bakery, patisserie and chocolate in creating the best finished goods. Puratos’ know-how is now available...

Uzwil / CH. (btg) Swiss Buhler Group celebrated the ground breaking for its Innovation Campus in Uzwil, Switzerland. Completion of the building is expected for the first quarter of 2019. This significant investment of over CHF 50 million, spent over three years, demonstrates Bühler’s commitment...

Rockville / MD. (pf) From consumers’ growing knowledge about product ingredients, the clean snacking mindset has emerged. Clean snacking is a balanced approach to nutrition that explores realistic options rather than a more dogmatic philosophy that forbids snacks or sweets altogether, according...

Toronto / CA. (ota) The Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) is releasing new organic products consumer and sales data in advance of Organic Week (September 16 to 24). The new data shows that the organic market is rapidly expanding. Two in three Canadians (66 percent) are spending at...

Chicago / IL. (mi) While German consumers are no strangers to online shopping, the number of consumers doing so has reached new heights. New research from Mintel reveals that as many as 93 percent of German consumers have shopped online in the last year. Furthermore, it appears...

Rockville / MD. (pf) Americans’ perennial enthusiasm for all things health and wellness is expressed in the food they consume, and natural and organic retailers are often at the forefront of meeting this demand. Packaged Facts’ national consumer survey data published in the new report...

Santa Clara / CA. (fs) According to the results of the latest Innovation in Manufacturing research survey, conducted by Frost + Sullivan’s «Manufacturing Leadership Council», 90 percent of senior manufacturing industry executives predict that the competitive importance and pace of innovation...