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Gen Z: Figuring Them Out and Luring Them In

Beyond their obvious youth and workplace stereotype, who are they, what do you need to know about them as food and beverage marketers, and how can you understand them better in 5 minutes or less?

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Breathing Life Into the Ghost in the Machine

While technology continues to take us “out of this world,” there’s amazing work being done to bring it back down to earth.

Humans: Click to Read On

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Challenge for 2024: A Balanced Digital Life

Actively encouraging and supporting the consumer need for digital wellness may require new thinking in relation to content, platforms, and brand experiences.

Challenge Your Thinking

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14 Examples of Retail Theater

The term “retail theater” has become synonymous with “in-store experience”. We subscribe to a more pure, undiluted definition – one that holds the term to a higher standard and should be reserved for engagements that meet more of the criteria for live theater. In our opinion, retail theater is rare, but we’ve located 14 examples across the globe that truly deliver.

Immerse Yourself

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2 Areas Where Tradition Is Being Upheld

What if resurrecting the past had less to do with novelty and more to do with preserving culture? What if the motivations were purer…say, saving something from extinction? That is precisely what we are seeing. The attempt to preserve “old world traditions” lest they be forgotten.

Explore Traditions

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10 Pop-Up Experiences From 2023

Creating exclusive experiences is no easy task. Let's explore a range of recent pop-up experiences, to see how they leverage everything from pop culture, to takeovers, and unconventional retail spaces to drive brand engagement and test new product ideas.

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Catch the Girl Power Wave

After nearly a century of efforts designed to help young girls reimagine what it means to be one, girls – of all ages – are taking charge.

This Way to Female Empowerment

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10 Antidotes to TikTok Food

One of the many common denominators to TikTok food trends is simplicity. Let us propose a countertrend: things that are hard to make.

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Natural Products Expo West 2023

We’ve been heading to Expo West for years and always walk away with new industry learnings and connections. This year proved no different, and while many of the trends aren’t new to the natural products space, there are key areas gaining momentum.

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Nostalgia: 2 Ways In

The desire to reconnect with things from the past that once brought us joy is not a byproduct of the pandemic, it’s a desire that’s been here all along. What tends to change are the particular items (and decades) consumers yearn for.

Connect to the Past