New York, NY — The 2018 Summer Fancy Food Show took place on June 30 – July 2 at the Javits Center bringing under one roof over 2,400 exhibiting companies and 34,000 attendees trying to stake a claim in the growing specialty foods market. According to the Specialty Foods Association,...
What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends.
Next month, Amazon will reach its first anniversary owning Whole Foods Market. How’s it doing so far? As we expected, Amazon will not spend a lot of time giving us specific results for its Whole Foods unit, which makes up less than 10% of Amazon’s total sales. In what appears...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When people care about their health, they will make the effort. That is something Susie Farbin learned while working for her mother at Jean’s Health Ways in Ava, MO, for 14 years. A prominent natural product retailer, customers were taking long treks from Springfield and other cities to shop for...
According to Label Insights, 67% of American consumers say they prioritize healthy and socially conscious food purchases (1). Unfortunately, being healthy is easier said than done and when dealing with the rapid pace of our modern lives, making the right choices is both more crucial and more difficult. That is...
South Plainfield, NJ — WholeFoods Magazine chose Springfield, MO-based MaMa Jean’s Natural Market as its 2018 Retailer of the Year. The women-owned MaMa Jean’s was established in 2002 by Susie Farbin and Diana Hicks. They named it after their mothers: “MaMa” Loweta Hicks and Jean Farbin, with the goal of...
Boise, ID — Boise-based Impact Group, a leading sales and marketing agency that provides services to more than 700 consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands will acquire three independent food brokerage companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin: Impact Sales & Associates, Ritt-Beyer & Weir (RBW), and WJ Pence. The additions will increase Impact...
“Dr. Drew” Pinsky, the board-certified internist and celebrity doc, has a new app called “Heal.” You can use it on your computer, tablet or phone to book an appointment with a medical doctor from an independent local practice to come to your home or office within a two-hour window of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]No one generation thinks alike. Let’s just say that from the get-go. This four-part series aims to help retailers and those who are developing new products and services glean insights into how behaviors are shifting generationally and learn how to capitalize where opportunity is biggest. [caption id="attachment_58344" align="alignright" width="382"] Figure...
For a while now, consumers have been changing their dietary habits either by choice or because of a food intolerance or allergies. Some of these changes were influenced by product trends and others through personal research and interest. Now, as product trends such as gluten-free die down for the average...
