If you don’t look after a pet, you likely know someone who does. With many of us spending the majority of our time staying at home due to the pandemic, pet ownership has skyrocketed, with more and more households adding these lovely new members.
Hard Seltzer’s growth to $5bn sales in a little over five years has been nothing short of spectacular, but could it have been predicted? And what’s next in the rapid evolution of this fast-growing category? These are the questions we set out to answer in the following analysis.
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What can millions of conversations tell us about the future of booze? That was Twitter’s brief when they asked Black Swan to create a 2022 Birdseye Emerging Trends report. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re missing out! You can find a short summary about it HERE.
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Many large CPG firms are struggling to innovate fast enough, and this is leading some to experiment with different business models and different ways to get things through their large systems. The cry of ‘be Agile!’ can be heard in many corporate offices, and with this push to be more agile it could be easy to think that stage gate processes should be abolished altogether.
Since the beginning of market research in the early 1900’s, companies have been trying to understand the needs of their customers, find ways of improving their products, and validate new ideas before spending large amounts of money developing them.
