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• Category: News
  • Signs Of Optimism Across The Trade
  • Psychedelics, Principles & Profit: Does Unilever’s Acquisition Of Onnit Suggest Their Long Game Is To Combine All Three?
  • Congratulations Roseanna! A Q&A With Our New Head Of Client Operations
  • New Beginnings
  • Oatly: The Plant-Based Drink Soon To Be Ingrained On UK Soil
  • Grenade: From Carb Killa, To Mondelez Winner. What Went Right?
  • Being Clear On The ‘Retail Channel Of The Future’ Matters
  • Get The Spill On Beauty Refill
  • Quantitative Surveys: Key Considerations
  • Brighter Days Ahead
  • Brushing Up On Children’s Oral Care Product Innovations
  • Beauty In The iPhone Of The Beholder – Why Virtual Beauty Consultations Are Here To Stay
  • Screen-Time And Our Skin: Is It Causing Us Damage?
  • 2021: Happy-ish Ever After?
  • Why We’re All Dieticians Now & Why Health Claims Are Redundant
  • Seeds Of Change
  • Welcome Jess Blake! A Q&A With HRA Global’s Consulting Executive
  • Are Probiotics the Next Big Thing in Skincare?
  • Can A Clean House Mean A Clean Conscience?
  • Design Thinking: How To Optimise The Research Phases And Avoid Common Pitfalls
  • Hope In A Jar
  • Why You Should Be Using Online Communities
  • Keeping Track of the Tracker Trend
  • Meal Kits – Are They Back In The Big Time?
  • October: A Chill Wind?
  • Welcome Danni Jordan! A Q&A With HRA Global’s Marketing and Commercial Executive
  • Getting Under The Skin Of Hyaluronic Acid
  • Oats – Here We Go A Grain
  • A Sparkling Future For The Household Category
  • Autumn’s Anecdata
  • A BCorp Update – It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint!
  • Welcome Poppy Rucki! A Q&A With HRA Global’s Research Executive
  • Is The Consumer Bedtime Occasion Underserved By FMCG Brands?
  • Putting The Wheels Of Organic Nutrition In Motion – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Cracking the Collagen Market
  • HRA Global Feature in The Grocer!
  • Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
  • The ‘Other’ Pandemic: Are We Into The Second Wave Of Single Use Plastic?
  • Brushing Up On Hygiene: Are Household Cleaning Products Performing Well Out of Pandemic?
  • A Fast Buck? What is Chrononutrition and Why Should Food, Tech and Health Brands Care?
  • British Wine Comes Of Age – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Learning From Customers From A Distance
  • Changes
  • Lockdown Shakes The Foundations In Health And Beauty
  • To B or Not to B?
  • Raising the Bar: How Has Lockdown Impacted the Sports Nutrition, Equipment and Supplements Category?
  • Is This The End Of The Human Buyer? With Martin Rand CEO Of Pactum – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Food Fraud with Professor Jack – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Hamish is Speaking at the ‘Futures for Food’ Symposium
  • Taking Baby Steps out of Lockdown
  • Milk? Sugar? Sparkling? Can The UK Learn To Love Sparkling Tea?
  • A Very Moorish Conversation With Julie Waddell – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Resetting the Client and Agency Relationship with Gellan Watt – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • A Real Corker, An Interview With Simon Thorpe MW
  • Have The Rules Of The Game Changed For Food And Drink Brands?
  • The Initial Shopper Verdict Is In: What The HRA Consumer Panel Is Telling Us About Changes In Lockdown Food And Drink Habits
  • Storyhacking With Genevieve Boast – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • Food And Drink Brands Need To Adapt Quickly To The Post COVID World
  • Running An Effective Online Focus Group
  • Functional Health Part 2 – Gut Health – Trend Report 2020 Extract
  • In The ‘Golden Age Of Gin’, How To Recover Your Wine Sales
  • Functional Health Part 1 – CBD – 2020 Trend Report Extract
  • Contract Manufacturing: The Key To Unlocking Branded Growth
  • The New Commercial Landscape for CBD – The Grocery Insider Podcast
  • What Happens Next in the Food and Drink industry?
  • How To Choose the Right Sales Partner
  • 10 Questions To Ask Your Contract Manufacturer
  • The New Commercial Landscape for CBD
  • Is ‘Protein’ Always an Advantage to Include in Products?
  • No Space For Packaging Waste – Part 2
  • Is COVID-19 Triggering A Seminal Moment For The Food And Drink Industry?
  • Can Online Research Techniques Ever Really Replace Face-to-Face Methods?
  • The Importance of Value Propositions
  • Food & Drink Marketing And Branding That Works
  • No Space For Packaging Waste – Part 1
  • Ethics Part 2 – Trust Issues – 2020 Trend Report Extract
  • Ethics Part 1 – Trust Issues – 2020 Trend Report Extract
  • A Q&A With Roseanna, Marketing and Commercial Consultant
  • A Bright Start to the Trading Year
  • Highlights From The Source Trade Show 2020
  • Are Hard Seltzers the Latest Battleground for the ‘War on Sugar’?
  • Convenience – Driven by Generational Change – 2020 Trend Report Extract
  • We’re Going To The Source Trade Show 2020
  • A Little Wave of Optimism
  • We Featured On Just-Food!
  • Premium – The Plant-Based Movement – 2020 Trend Report Extract
  • Episode 10: 2020 Supply Chain Vision with Jonathan Kittow
  • So, Why Should I Use A Specialist Food And Drink Agency?
  • 2020 Trend Report
  • A New Season Of The Grocery Insider
  • Why In-Store Intercepts Should Be On Your Research Radar
  • Food Matters Live: A Review
  • End Of Term Report
  • We’re Participating In A Campden BRI Conference!
  • We’re Hiring
  • Six New Coffee Trends To Perk You Up Through Winter
  • Food Subscription Boxes – How Well Do They Deliver?
  • We’re at Food Matters Live 2019!
  • Back to the Future?
  • Another Award For HRA Global Research
  • Market Research Services
  • A Month of Celebration
  • The Decline of Eating Out
  • Speciality and Fine Food Fair Review – 2019
  • Food Air Miles – Higher Than We Think
  • We Featured On Just-Food!
  • Organic September 2019
  • We Featured in The Grocer!
  • Mitigating The Brexit Risk: Exploring The Onshoring Dilemma
  • Co-Packing 101
  • The Inside Scoop on Co-Packing
  • Is Vegan A Dirty Word?
  • All About The Experience
  • The Start of the Grocery Year
  • Total Recall
  • Cracking The Code With Ged Futter
  • How Smart is Smart Shopping?
  • Ready to Drink Coffee – Better Latte Than Never
  • Nine Years and Counting
  • The Still Unrealised Flexitarian Diet
  • We Are Hiring
  • Free From Expo 2019 Talks
  • Get to Know HRA Global
  • A Summer of Success
  • The Grocery Insider Podcast – Latest Episodes
  • Meat Eaters 2.0
  • We featured in The Grocer!
  • Things Are About To Get Oat Of Control
  • Nootropics – Beyond The Hype
  • We featured in The Grocer!
  • Food Scoop: Hamish Renton interview with the Free From Expo
  • “Better”, Hamish shares his verdict on the IFE trade show
  • Culture Club Revisited
  • From Climate Change to Yoga Bunnies – Easter 2019 in an Eggshell
  • A Sustainable Plant-Based Future; Dos and Don’ts For Foodservice Menus – Part 1
  • The Grocery Insider Podcast Is Now Live
  • If You’re Online, Be Online
  • February Reflections: A message from HRA Global’s MD, Hamish Renton
  • Is Food for Sharing Anymore?
  • Taste Tests for the New Generation
  • We Featured in The Grocer!
  • The Lighter Side To Dark Chocolate
  • Try Before You Buy: The Benefits of In-store Sampling
  • Has Chinese Food Had Its Day?
  • January Reflections on Focus Groups
  • HRA’s Top 5 Veganuary Launches 2019
  • Does Halo Top Deserve the Halo?
  • 2019 Winter Trend Report
  • We Featured on Just-Food!
  • Gut Instinct, Which Diet is Best?
  • Feed Yourself Beautiful?
  • ‘Deskfast’ – The New Hot Meal Occasion?
  • We Featured In The Grocer!
  • Calling All Cracker Eaters!
  • Lighting The Way?
  • Free From Scrutiny
  • Take Part in our Focus Groups
  • Plastic Not So Fantastic: Are We Addicted?
  • Has Vegan got an image problem?
  • Is it time To Call The Top On The Free From Bull Market?
  • Diet Coke Gets a Serious Revamp
  • Veganuary 2018: the year of meat-free NPD?
  • How Research Can Breathe Life Into A Dying Category
  • New Year, New Sales Agent?
  • HRA Taste Testing Research at Hammersmith Fitness First
  • What’s The Best Way To Run Taste Tests?
  • Why Is Our Share Of Exports To The US So Low?
  • If Market Research Techniques Keep On Getting Better, Why Do So Many FMCG Food And Drink Products Still Fail?
  • Is Halloween Dead and Buried?
  • What Is Free From?
  • The Grocer’s Focus On Cheddar
  • Competition In The Dairy Aisle
  • Getting Insight Into Focus
  • Fairtrade To Keep Fighting
  • Going Against the Grain?
  • Nutrition In Free From
  • Butter Is Falling Behind Organic
  • Branching Out? Export Manager Do’s And Don’ts
  • What Is The State Of The Free From Market – A Q&A With Hamish Renton
  • Get Ahead Of The Analytics Game
  • Happy Cheese-ter! HRA’s Favourite (Yep, You Guessed It!) Easter NPD
  • HRA’s Top Five High Protein Snacks
  • Neuroscience – Marketers Question Answered?
  • Is This The Diet We Should All Be On?
  • Forget Eating Clean… Is This The Year Of Eating Green?
  • HRA’s Top Foodie Gifts For Valentine’s Day
  • Are We Overdosing On Protein?
  • The Food Market In 2017 – What Will Shape The UK Food Sector?
  • 7 Mood Foods To Beat Those January Blues…
  • Is This What’s In Store For 2017?
  • Sports Nutrition… A New Whey Forward?
  • HRA’s Top Three Christmas NPD
  • Christmas Traditions Around The Globe
  • HRA’s Christmas Survey
  • Müller Back In Big Pots After 5 Year Absence
  • 7 Foods With An Unfair Reputation
  • Are YOU A Great Exporter?
  • Lost in Translation? 5 International Marketing Fails
  • Is this the future of food packaging?
  • 5 Global BBQ Trends
  • Hungry? 7 Gross Ingredients In Your Favourite Foods
  • Back From The Dead? 5 Brands That Made A Comeback
  • Culture Club? The Latest Emerging Trend
  • Britain – Open For Business!
  • Hinweise für die Deutsch Unternehmen auf dem Britischen markt eintritt
  • #FAIL! A Round-Up Of The Most Memorable Food And Drink Product Development Fails
  • Are You Leveraging Time of Day Targeting?
  • HRA’s Top 5 Launches Of 2016 (So Far)
  • Anti-Inflammatory – The Next Red-Hot Food Trend?
  • Demise Of Choccy Philly Shows Novel NPD Needs Big Spend To Make An Impact
  • REVEALED: Significant Nutritional Difference Between Organic and Non-Organic Produce
  • BREXIT: A Big Yes or a Resounding No?
  • 5 Health Foods To Watch Out For This Year
  • Is It Time To Bring Back Fat?
  • Agents or distributors which is best for you?
  • 5 Safeguards Free From Brands Can Take To Protect Their Sales And Reputations
  • Health-Conscious Consumers Souring Towards Sugar And Sweeteners
  • Agents or Distributors – Which is Best for Your Brand?
  • Milk Takes A £165m Hit As Prices Tumble
  • Check Out Your A To S Of Sweeteners
  • 3 Dirty Little Secrets Silently Lurking in the Free-From Aisle
  • Top 5 Foodie Gadgets We’d Like To Find Under Our Tree This Christmas!
  • Dairy Crest Free To Focus On A World Of Possibilities
  • Cheese Category Report 2015
  • Dirty little secrets of Free From
  • Could you STILL be the biggest loser in the sugar tax?
  • FODMAP: A New Free-From Opportunity From Australia
  • Gluten-Free 2.0 – Low FODMAP
  • Are Brands Toast?
  • NPD in Dairy Drinks is Booming but Growth has Slowed, Can the war on Sugar and Growing Interest in Protein Reinvigorate Sales?
  • Liz Truss to Press EU Ministers on Dairy Futures Market
  • How Is Gluten-Free Faring In Europe?
  • Free-From Suppliers Look To Vertical Integration
  • All Churned Up In The Milk Sector
  • Category: Category Expertise
  • Category: Dairy
    • A New Dawn For Dairy
    • Coke’s US Milk Venture: What Can UK Dairy Learn?
    • Farmers for Action Claims It Has The Formula For Dairy Price Stability
    • Dairy Products Are Having A Health Renaissance
    • Global Dairy Market
    • Video – 10 Key Dairy Market Trends for Retail and Foodservice
    • Using Natural Colours and Flavours in the Dairy Industry
    • Low Calorie Dairy
    • Video – World, European and UK Dairy Industry 2013
    • Are Dairy Companies Getting Their Just Desserts?
    • Analysis of India’s Mother Dairy New Products
    • Russia’s WTO Membership ‘Set to Ease Export Barriers’ Says Dairy Crest
    • British Dairy: Getting Hitched
  • Category: Events
    • Anuga – Cologne 14/10/2015
  • Category: Exporting
  • Category: HRA Blog
    • Roseanna’s Interview With The Grocer – Working In The Food And Drink Industry
    • Rise of the Sour-Faux
    • We Featured In The Grocer
    • Nordic Vs. Aussie, The Battle Of The Easy-Going Food Cultures
    • Is Salt Back On The Table?
    • Nootropics – All In The Mind?
    • Creating Great Grocery Branding – Part 2
  • Category: Latest News
    • May’s Monthly Impact Report
    • April’s Monthly Impact Report
    • Meet Emma Stallworthy, Our New Sustainability & Research Consultant
    • Creating Great Grocery Branding – Part 1
    • The Future of Free From
    • Vending Machines – More Than Just a Snack
    • Foods For Your Face
    • The End Of #cleaneating? The Clean Label Paradox
    • Are These the World’s Wackiest Restaurants?
    • The Top Ten Brain Foods
    • Naturally Harmful? The Health Claim Con
    • 6 Protein Sources You Didn’t Expect
    • Is This The World’s Healthiest Diet?
    • The Hunger Grains: Teff, The New Quinoa?
    • Veganism: What’s behind it?
    • SALT: We Still Need to Talk
    • Wok’s Up? 6 Inspiring Food Trends From South Asia
    • Value Melts Away – Butter & Spreads Category Report
    • The Great Grain Robbery!
    • The 7 Traits of Great Distributors
    • Tesco, Fake Farms And Volkswagen…
    • Our Top 10 Free-From Favourites
    • 11 Crucial Questions Ambitious Food & Drink Directors Can’t Afford To Ignore
    • 10 Questions Every Successful Food & Drink Marketer Can Immediately Answer
    • Not Just for Gym Bunnies: Protein Goes Mainstream
    • Continental Cheese is Flying but Growth is Driven Mainly by own Label. What can Brands do to Catch up?
    • Asda Offers Juice In Its Fruit & Veg Aisle As Part Of B.Fresh Deal
    • Where To For Free-from?
    • Milk Prices For One And Two Pints Cut By Sainsbury’s & Tesco
    • Free-From Product Recall
    • Cash Cow? Milk and Butter Prices Fall 23% & 27% In Five Years.
    • Does Morrisons’ Milk Cut Herald A New Round in the Supermarket Price War?
    • Arla Takes Fight to Frijj & Yazoo With Low-sugar Flavoured Milk
    • Organic NPD Vital To Survive Mainstream ‘Healthification’
    • First Milk’s CNP launches high-protein milk shake
    • Organic Milk Warnings Are ‘Scaremongering’, Says Soil Association
    • Halal Market Has Huge Unexploited Potential
    • Sports Nutrition
    • Natural Colours and Flavours
    • Farmgate Milk Price Message Is Failing To Reach Shoppers
    • Price is King in Cheese as Brands Falter
    • I Can’t Believe it’s not Better Than Last Year
    • Cheddar Brands Fight For A Bigger End Of The Wedge
    • Focus on Free-From – Coming of Age
    • General Mills Launches 150 New Products Inspired by Food Trends
    • Fonterra maintains forecast Farmgate Milk Price for 2014/15 season
    • The Frozen Yogurt Trend
    • Are You Ready For A Gluten-Free Future?
    • Food Labelling – Is It Really Working?
    • Manufacturers Need to Think ‘Global’ to Succeed in Free-From Market
    • Butter is back
    • A Look Into the Current Free-From Market for 2014
    • Milk Price Cuts are Here to Stay
    • Occasion-specific range issue
    • Risky Business
    • Video – World, European and UK Free From Market 2013
    • Free-From: From Fad to Fashion
    • Question Marks Over the Sale of Crediton as Lakeland Backs Off
    • Is This the High Water Mark for Retailer Milk Pools?
    • Eating Gluten-Free Isn’t Just for Coeliacs
    • Colostrum Shows the Global Whey to go
    • The Only Way is Ethics… But Whose?
    • The New Kings of Flavoured Milk – Lassi and Coffee
    • Time to Make Sure You’ve Got A Plan P
    • Food Technologists Discover the Benefits of Mother’s Milk
    • Drink Well, Be Happy – Ethical Water
    • Wanted: A Milk Fixture Fit For The 21st Century
    • Is Wyke’s Facebook Campaign the Way Forward?
    • Could A ‘Crimson Tide’ of Pink Slime Arrive Here?
    • What Will it Take to Put A Lid on Britvic’s Recall Woes?
    • Cheese Packaging Innovations “Squeezed Out” By Retailers – Marketing Expert
    • Focus on Free-From: From Medicine to Mainstream?
    • Innovation in Cheese Packaging
    • Minsterley Deal Gives Muller More Than Cadbury Desserts
    • Category Crunch: Turbulent Times In UK Liquid Milk
    • In the Spotlight – Kellogg’s Could Need More Than Brand ‘Refresh’
    • Outsourcing NPD – Marketing Expert View
    • Marketing Expert View – Whey
  • Category: Market Research
    • Help Shape the Future of Food and Drink!
    • What Deep Dive Research Can Offer Food And Drink Brands
    • Using Research to Generate Media Buzz
  • Category: Podcast
    • The Guild of Fine Food With John Farrand – The Grocery Insider Podcast Episode
  • Category: The Inside Scoop
  • Category: Vegan
    • HRA’s Top 5 Veganuary launches 2020