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Briefings on Americas shifting specialty food markets, the changing tastes of consumers, demographic trends and growth opportunities in the consumer packaged goods sector.

Ethnic Foods will Grow by 20% before 2014

Ethnic food sales will reach a record $2.2 billion this year, and advance by another 20% between 2010 and [...]

Whether luxury purchase or convenience, specialty foods continue to gain steam

If the industry needs more proof that specialty foods is THE sector of growth in food and beverage, validation can be found through the vast array of niches that the sector is penetrating. Be it low-cost convenience or high-end luxury, specialty foods are gaining [...]

One size does not fit all: marketers must dig deeper to connect with cultural markets

An article in AdvertisingAge by Tommy Thompson sheds some much-needed light on today's cultural markets in the U.S–most especially on the fact that while they may be of the same ethnic backgrounds, that is where many of their similarities end.

But, as Thompson points out, many of today's marketers are the last to know. Arguing [...]