Any effective strategy requires a clear point of view, which we devise by integrating information from four main areas:
+ NUTRITION SCIENCE
For the topic of “nutrition” alone, there are about 15,000 peer reviewed papers published in a single year. Science is both glorious and overwhelming when it comes to what matters.
- Are there published papers substantiating our ingredient of interest?
- Who are the key scientific contributors in a given space?
- How do we know which scientific findings carry the most weight?
+ FOOD POLICY
From Dietary Guidelines for Americans to World Health Organization reports, food policy has never been more important. Foodscape Group follows food policy developments from both a consumer and corporate perspective.
- What's happening with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
- How do dietary recommendations vary from country to country?
- What's new and changing when it comes to health claims and labeling?
+ CONSUMERS
For every diet type and every new product that hits the scene, there's still a consumer wanting something newer or even more different.
- How do we manage the barrage of over 20,000 new products entering the marketplace each year?
- How does dietary guidance apply to consumer desires to eat vegan? Paleo? Keto?
- How do we determine our best consumer target for our new product?
+ MARKETPLACE
The global marketplace is increasingly fragmented, with increasing numbers of consumers seeking more personalized offerings while shopping across channels from bricks-and-mortar to direct to consumer. Ingredient choices, brand storytelling and influencer marketing all play pivotal roles.
- How do we think about an omnichannel approach?
- What about clean label initiatives?
- Should we be engaging in influencer marketing?
“Had the opportunity to see Rachel Cheatham, PhD at work in a large, cross-functional setting. She is very, very good at what she does.”
Each month we release a new edition of the Foodscape Quad with the goal of aggregating and curating only the most relevant information into four buckets: Science, Policy, Consumer and Marketplace. Therefore, the number of findings per topic area will vary each month based on an assessment of what new developments are most salient.
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