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January 19, 2021

An Innovative Approach to a Traditional Ingredient

When it comes to marketing within food commodity boards, innovation is imperative to success. Being able to identify early trends and shifts in the marketplace can help unlock new opportunities for your food commodity’s product to flourish. Here at EvansHardy+Young (EHY), we’ve had the privilege of helping several of our…
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3 Consumer Value Shifts That Will Have an Impact on Food Marketers in 2021
Consumer Insights & TrendsOther
January 14, 2021

3 Consumer Value Shifts That Will Have an Impact on Food Marketers in 2021

If you’re reading this, it means you survived the most disruptive year in modern history. Profoundly put by Brené Brown, 2020 was the year of the FFT or “effin’ first time.” If there’s anything we learned in 2020 (where do we even begin?), it’s that there were a whole lot…
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Food PROther
December 10, 2020

Everyday Agility: A New Imperative for Today’s Food Marketers

What. A. Year. And it’s not over yet. In fact, many of us are in the middle of fine-tuning marketing plans for 2021. But as this year has shown us, plans are really a guide, based on a set of assumptions. (And boy were we knocked on our assumptions this…
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Two Hugging Bananas Food Brand Trust and Affinity EvansHardy+Young
Consumer Insights & TrendsDigitalOther
October 23, 2020

Boost Your Customers’ Trust and Affinity With Great Food Content Marketing

In the past several months, consumers have made big and small changes to the way they buy groceries. Recently it was reported that 43% of consumers say they shopped for food online in the past six months, versus 24% just two years ago. And what is more interesting is that…
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Consumer Insights & TrendsOther
September 25, 2020

Why Human Well-Being Should Be Your Top Food Marketing KPI

As a marketer, you’re good at your job if you narrow in on a singular problem, lay out a targeted strategy, and identify a specific KPI. While this process is the baseline to proving the value of your role, it’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. When…
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Meal Kit Trends Post COVID EvansHardy+Young
Consumer Insights & TrendsOther
September 14, 2020

5 Consumer Trends Driving a Resurgence in Meal Kits Right Now

For the meal kit industry, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the comeback. What consumer trends are driving the resurgence of meal kits right now? Many of the early consumer behavior shifts we saw this year were directly related to COVID-19. However, now months into the pandemic, we’re…
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Chowbotics Sally the Robot Grocery Trends
Consumer Insights & TrendsOther
August 20, 2020

The Mother of Invention: Pandemic Induced Innovation in the Food Industry

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the pandemic has produced the mother of all necessities. Innovation has accelerated to levels never even dreamed of in the retail food industry because rapid and dramatic change is currently essential to survival. Forty-five percent of consumers have changed at least one brand preference since…
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Pringles and Wendy's Food Collaboration Partnerships EvansHardy+Young
Consumer Insights & TrendsFood CampaignsFood PROther
August 6, 2020

4 Unique Paths to a Great Food Collaboration

When it comes to food brand collaborations, doesn’t it seem like there are no rules? The more bizarre a collaboration is, the more it seems to resonate with younger customers. Anyone else conjuring up memories of KFC’s Yule log that made your house smell like fried chicken? The seemingly odd…
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Food Brands' Values Build Consumer Connection And Loyalty EvansHardy+Young
Consumer Insights & TrendsOther
July 21, 2020

Food Marketers, You’re Now Being Measured By Your Actions As Much As Your Products

From the pandemic to the Black Lives Matter protests and subsequent boycotts and buycotts, food marketers are navigating the most complex marketplace in recent history. This environment has made consumers even more deliberate about the brands they support based on how they treat their employees, the planet and the communities in which…
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Shoppable Recipe CA Walnuts EH
Consumer Insights & TrendsDigitalOther
June 18, 2020

Monetizing Recipe Content: How Food Commodity Boards Can Capitalize as Online Grocery Surges

If there’s anything food marketers have learned over the past couple of months, it is how important an e-commerce channel strategy is. With consumers urged to stay home, online grocery shopping has grown exponentially. Home delivery has become an essential service for those who are elderly or immunocompromised, and it has…
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