Consumers are increasingly choosing bottled water over carbonated soft drinks and other beverages due to greater awareness of the negative health effects associated with beverages containing sugar and artificial ingredients. Furthermore, the use of flavor drops enable consumers to customize their drink with as much or as little flavor and sugar as they desire.
June 22, 2018Nearly a third (31%) of U.S. adult have gardened in the last 12 months. Gardening has fallen off slightly since 2005, with participation rates dropping by a couple of percentage points. Despite this longer-term slight decline, the percentage of people gardening held firm during the recession--as way to reduce stress, grow food, gain more sense of control over one’s life, or simply because consumers were at home more or more practical-minded in their leisure spending. Gardeners tend to be 35 an...
October 8, 2013US demand for Christmas lighting sets is forecast to total $515 million in 2021. Anticipated contraction in Christmas tree purchases in unit terms will weigh on demand for associated lights...
May 9, 2017US wine demand by volume is forecast to reach 1.2 billion gallons in 2021. Increases will be driven by continued expansion in disposable personal income and demographic shifts, in which a larger percentage of the growing population will consume wine...
May 16, 2017If you have pain, take a pain reliever; if you can’t sleep, take sleep medication. Right? Wrong. Packaged Facts’ survey analysis suggests that sleep disturbance sufferers are much less likely than pain sufferers to take either OTC or prescription drugs to treat their condition. And yet OTC and prescription sleep remedies do the job: disturbance sufferers who take medication to treat their condition report high rates of relief.
March 8, 2017Seeking more insights on the burgeoning influence of Millennials? Purchase Millennial Parents in the U.S. and save 10% with promo code PFSAVE10. Jan. 25 - As they have in so many other parts of their lives, Millennials are rewriting the rules about marriage. When it comes to choosing marriage as a way of life, today’s 18- to 34-year-olds-especially women-differ markedly from their predecessors. Millennial women are marrying later than ever before-or not at all. Yet, the decline in the institut...
January 25, 2016Three of the top trends impacting the jewelry and watch market
June 18, 2018Interested in learning more about health and wellness food drivers, including consumer demand for grains? Be sure to purchase your copy of the upcoming Packaged Facts report, Food Formulation Trends: Ancient Grains and Sprouted Grains (August 2015). Packaged Facts research director David Sprinkle will be among the expert presenters at the “Innovation with Healthier Oils & Grains: Solutions to Meet Changing Policies and Demands” course hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) on July...
July 7, 2015Today’s teens and young adults display a wide range of complicated and contradictory characteristics that create an unparalleled challenge for marketers.
July 19, 2018The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the way people dine, both at home and in public. The overwhelming fear of contamination that was once the domain of germophobes has become commonplace. As the world starts to open back up as vaccinations expand, restaurants face the challenge of customers who have spent more than a year thinking about the sanitary practices behind the production, handling, and consumption of food. Is the “sanitarian” customer the new vegetarian?
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