Chicago (March 15, 2010) – While the economy continues to negatively influence certain shopping behaviors, one category’s bubble refuses to pop. According to recent research from Mintel, the gum, mints and breath fresheners market has seen sales growing through the recession, increasing over 10% since 2007, and is expected to…
Competition heats up for breakfast dollar —————————————- Chicago (March 12, 2010) – The most important meal of the day has become the hottest area of competition for the foodservice industry. Mintel, a leading market intelligence firm, reports that restaurants added more than 460 new breakfast items to their menus…
Recession increased focus on value pricing, but many consumers want quick, easy, close-to-home restaurant meals too Chicago (January 27, 2010)—Restaurants and foodservice establishments serving up convenience are poised to do well in this post-recession economy. A new report from Mintel suggests that although value has become the mantra of…
Chicago (January 26, 2010)—The economic slump paid its toll on US food and drink manufacturers in 2009, according to a recent review of Mintel’s Global New Product Database (GNPD). Food and drink product launches show a substantial decline of nearly 30% from 2008. “In the last decade,…
Mintel analyzes Americas’ beer preferences Chicago (January 25, 2010)—With this year’s Super Bowl teams just determined, another type of competition is brewing in homes, supermarkets and liquor store aisles across the country: which beers should we buy for Super Bowl Sunday? Mintel, a leading market research company, dissects people’s…
Just in time for Farmhouse Breakfast Week (starting 24th January) new research from Mintel’s Global Market Navigator (GMN) reveals British consumers are a nation bowled over by breakfast cereal, spending a healthy £28 per head (or a total of £1.8 billion) on breakfast cereal in the last year alone, up…
While a year of frugality may have seen us hold on to our toasters, kettles and blenders a little longer than we would have done so in the past, new research from Mintel finds the market for small kitchen appliances is set to steam ahead…. as the nation’s chefs chop,…
Chicago (December 23, 2009)—Just in time for seasonal festivities, Mintel reports that chocolate sales around the world have busted through the recession…and likely our belts as well! In China and the Ukraine—two countries not necessarily recognized for their rampant chocoholic populations—chocolate confectionery sales rose 18% and 12%, respectively, this…
They have been attacked for their less than exciting image, ignored by low carb dieters and ostracised from the five a day allowance, but new research from Mintel finds that the fortunes of the humble spud have turned – just in time for Christmas dinner – as today, potatoes are…
Chicago (November 23, 2009)—Cheers! Salúd! Clink, clink! However you toast, Americans will be tipping their glasses this holiday season. According to new research from Mintel, two-thirds of survey respondents (67%) say they partake in wine on holidays and special occasions while at home. Another 58% drink wine at home…
Chicago (November 20, 2009)–How do you follow up a wild year of $5 menus, gourmet meals for paupers’ prices and buy one get one restaurant specials? You return to quality, that’s how. “Restaurants are redefining ‘value’ on the menu, moving away from the cost-savings that were so important earlier…
Chicago (November 17, 2009)—Mintel predicts new flavors and scents will make an appearance in the US marketplace in 2010, as well as some familiar ones…reinvented. “As the economy recovers, we expect people to continue the trend of eating at home,” notes Lynn Dornblaser, Mintel’s leading new products…
