What's the role of private brands in 2021?

What sustainable trends are coming to the forefront of mainstream consumers’ behaviors that will impact your business?

Brands are working harder than ever to gain attention and loyalty, regardless of whether they are national, name brands or a retailer’s own private brand.

Despite heightened public attention to the pandemic’s negative effects on consumers’ health, a substantial portion of Americans actually feel their health and wellness improved during the pandemic.

We are living through an unprecedented time in which the pandemic has accelerated, altered or accentuated trends in many spheres of food and beverage culture.

Several long-term shifts have been reshaping the American health and wellness landscape over the past two decades.

Consumer priorities in food and beverages have shifted toward finding items that signal increased personalization to health and wellness needs and goals.

The pandemic emerged to disrupt consumers’ food and beverage purchase and consumption routines and significantly alter the current nature of snacking in America.

What does convenience look like when a global pandemic throws normal schedules and routines into disarray?

As COVID-19 radically altered any semblance of a “normal way of life,” America’s food stores stepped up to provide essential services and, in the process, became consumers’ trusted allies in their struggles to cope with the new realities of the pandemic.