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Human to Pet Nutrition: 2021 Pet Shopper Statistics
Part one of our our series on pet parents and their awareness, attitudes related to pet nutrition. Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Should I Build an In-house Agency?
These days, marketing requires brands to be highly responsive and integrated in their approach, able to generate the perfect social post at the perfect time or to push updates to their software on a daily and hourly basis. This challenge, among other factors, has driven an increasing number of consumer brands to shift their marketing… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
In snack bars, ingredients tell the brand’s story
MarketPlace and SupplySide’s Education Series 2020
In the fall of 2019, we conducted a survey to uncover insights into what consumers want in a supplement brand. These findings were presented at the SupplySide West conference in Las Vegas. To better understand how COVID-19 has affected supplement consumers, we recently conducted a follow-up survey. Our CMO Tracy Landau shared these findings in… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Is the Coronavirus Makin’ Bacon Cheaper?
The past decade has been a wild ride for the makers and partakers of bacon. A 2012 grain shortage prompted some forward-thinking citizens to “procure as much bacon as humanly possible and hide it in as many locations as [they] can.” In more recent years, the African swine flu ravaged Chinese hog farms, causing U.S.… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2019 in Food and Beverage
Now that 2019 has closed, we’re looking back at some of our favorite discoveries of the year in a series of posts covering each of the sectors we serve. In this first post of the series, we’re looking at food and beverage. As always, we avidly watched developments in food and beverage—not only as professionals… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2019 in Pet
Now that 2019 has come to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite discoveries of the year in a series of posts covering each of the sectors we serve. In this, the third of the series, we look at the pet and animal market. As Americans have developed higher expectations for pet… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Innovative and Disruptive Brands of 2019 in Dietary Supplements
Now that 2019 has come to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite discoveries of the year in a series of posts covering each of the sectors we serve. In this post, we look at the health and wellness sector, with a focus on human dietary supplements. This is a constantly changing… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Why “Human-Grade”? Investigating a Pet Food Claim
Among the industries we serve, the pet products segment ranks as one of the most dynamic: new products and companies rise and fall on a regular basis, and consumers show themselves willing to at least trial new products frequently. In this ever-changing marketplace, however, pet food and products steadily mirror trends in human food toward… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
MarketPlace’s Tracy Landau speaks at SupplySide West 2019
If you’re here, there’s a good chance you were at SupplySide West 2019 and you attended Tracy’s talk, “What Consumers Want in a Supplement Brand.” Firstly, thank you for attending! We hope it was a good use of your time in Vegas, where you otherwise could have been making a serendipitous connection or donning a… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
When is it time to redo packaging?
Why repackage? Among other reasons, surveys say that 70% of consumers make their buying decisions at the shelf* and that 68% of purchases are impulse driven.** These decisions are based on many factors, and in this economy price is usually close to the top of the list, but not always. I don’t know how many… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>
Faster Survey Results With Mobile and Video Capture
We Do Have Time for Faster Survey Results There’s a lot of waiting around in consumer research. Days go by waiting on folks to take your survey. It could take a week for focus group transcripts to arrive. You most likely have no time for that. The CEO definitely has no time for that. In… Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>