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Payment providers are basing profit growth strategies on taking market share from competitors as the overall payments pie continues to shrink.

The targeted health and wellness foods and beverages market is driven largely by the growing recognition of the role diet plays in a range of health conditions.

Sales of coffee and tea at restaurant and drinking places are projected to reach $18.7 billion in 2012, according to Packaged Facts. Sales spiked 11% in 2011, driven by the return of consumers to the restaurant industry.

Food manufacturers will introduce more products that reflect use of whole grains, leaner proteins , more mono and poly-unsaturated fats and more vegetables

Pet product marketers and retailers must re-evaluate their strategic options to respond to an increasingly competitive marketplace.

The explosion of farmers' markets with new and different varieties of vegetables has raised American consumers' vegetable IQs and encouraged them to add new vegetable-centric products to their diets.

The tide is turning on the reputation of fat as we begin to understand more about how our bodies actually use and need dietary fat, and realize that low-fat diets may have been working against us.

Affluent households make up 20% of U.S. households but control 51% of the nation's household income.

Retail sales of coffee reached $7.3 billion in 2011, an increase of nearly 17% over 2010.

This latest blog from market research publisher Packaged Facts focuses on changes and challenges in the consumer payments industry.