USA

While the shifting public perception and policy guidance of COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic would, under isolated circumstances, stabilise channel shifts and drive the recovery of on-trade consumption, the confounding factors of inflation and…

In the last five years, non alcoholic beer in the US has seen a renaissance, displaying growth unmatched by any other beer category. Long viewed as a hollow version of its alcoholic analogue, trailblazing and award-winning new products, aided by…

While total volume sales of cider/perry returned to decline in 2022, after limited post-pandemic recovery in 2021, regional craft brands continued to ride the “support local” wave in consumer preference. With many national brands shifting their…

The briefing introduces the Cities Households Necessities Spending Index. The index ranks 1,075 cities by household expenditure on non-discretionary items, namely food, housing, and clothing and footwear. This analysis focuses on 160 major cities.…

In the upcoming years, consumers and businesses face an array of challenges, with income inequality, mass migration and rising uncertainty about another crisis being among the major ones. Nevertheless, within this lie untapped opportunities. This…