Alex Beckett

Mintel analysts come across really innovative and eye-catching food, drink and beauty products from around the world on a daily basis. In this new video, my colleagues and I ...

There’s an opportunity for brands in the bottled water segment in India to leverage the problems and opportunities that India’s carbonated soft drinks (CSD) market is facing. According ...

Getting ice cream right in 2018 is a hard business. The “perfect ice cream” is a mythical beast expected to be moreish and indulgent, while having a permissible ...

Today (3rd of April) marks the anniversary of the first ice cream sundae ever. With spring having officially sprung and ice cream parlours opening again for the season, ...

French consumers are keen to try chilled coffee, yet existing usage is minimal. In 2017, only 3% of adults said they had bought such formats in France, which ...

“There’s a new way to drink chocolate, one that provides its mood-boosting, sensual, buzzy benefits, with none of the sugar: cold-brewing.” Jenni Avins, Lifestyle Reporter, Quartz The tea and ...

Vogue declares ice pops the most delicious food trend for summer 2017 Spices boast punchy aromas and flavours, dazzling colours and associations with medicinal qualities, too. But as consumers ...

With a potential link between thirst-quenching appeal and cold carbonated drinks, Mintel research reveals that over-55s in France are more likely than average to prefer sparkling water to ...

My fascination for baobab trees was inspired by a chaotic, and near disastrous, trip to Timbuktu, Mali 15 years ago. Towering and bizarre, the trees stood along the ...

While Canada’s sizeable ageing population is partly responsible for declining sales of ice cream, the fast-growing population of Chinese Canadians is higher than average consumers of ice cream and ...

The ice cream sandwich is perhaps the most indulgent and waistline-busting format of ice cream. When ice cream isn’t calorific enough, book ending it with chewy, thick cookies ...

Outside of the Middle East, rose water has a home among history’s romantics, yet it seems the floral water is on the cusp of a revival in 2016. The ...