Packaged Facts

Today, restaurant chefs and domestic cooks are seeking out spices to create full-flavored food, often based on authentic regional recipes that are budget-friendly and healthful to boot.

Companies that traditionally kept to a narrow, “exclusive” retail footprint have expanded their chocolate product lines to mass-market channels, with the more upscale supermarket chains and outlets among the favored outposts.

Despite the Great Recession, ice cream and frozen desserts are doing well for one simple reason: they are comfort items that make people happy. Visit Packaged Facts’ blog at www.packagedfacts.blogspot.com to read more.

Consumers are looking for skin care, hair care and color cosmetic products that will improve their appearance virtually overnight while also demonstrably delivering long-term improvements to skin and hair health.

In the new (ab)normal of economic sluggishness, cosmeceuticals marketers have an opportunity to shine across multiple generations, including Boomers, Gen X-ers, and increasingly, Gen Y-ers.

According to Packaged Facts, sales of ice cream and frozen desserts topped $25 billion in 2011, up 2% over the previous year—representing a small upswing after two years of flat sales.

Data cited in Packaged Facts' May 2012 report, "Millennials in the U.S.", show that more than a third of 18- to 29-year-olds are either married or are living as part of a couple. About the same percentage are or will soon be parents.

Many generational ties bind the diverse group of young consumers who comprise the Millennial demographic and differentiate them from older consumers.

According to Packaged Facts, 75% of dog owners and 84% of cat owners agree that their pet positively impacts their mental health. Visit the blog of Packaged Facts (www.packagedfacts.blogspot.com) to read more.

At the heart of U.S. pet industry is the yin and yang of the market’s two major animal segments—dogs and cats.