The Power of Private Label: How Store Brands are Transforming Food Retail

Private label products are no longer a niche market—they’re a major force in food retail. With consumers becoming more cost-conscious, private label sales hit a record $236.3 billion in 2023. But what’s driving this explosive ...

Data-Driven Dining: Restaurant Insights for 2025

Amid inflationary headwinds and fluctuating consumer demand, restaurant operators are facing difficult times. What are consumers looking for when they eat out, and what operators are successfully navigating the current climate? The Food Institute hosted …

Seizing Opportunities: Food Manufacturing M&A Insights for 2024

Despite the challenges and risks within the U.S. economy, the food manufacturing industry remains a bright spot in the M&A world. What trends are taking form? What can be expected in terms of deal volume ...

Snacking Smarter: Consumer Trends and Product Solutions

How has consumer snacking changed in the last five years, and what trends are shaping its future in 2025? In this webinar, experts from Glanbia Nutritionals, Brightfield Group, and The Food Institute explore these questions ...

Inflation’s Economic Impact: What it Means for the F&B Industry

Inflation affects every corner of the U.S. economy, but its impact on the Food and Beverage industry is particularly profound. Join The Food Institute for an insightful webinar during which we examine how rising prices ...

Innovation in Focus: Future Food Trends from SIAL Paris 2024

The Food Institute hosted Comexposium’s Audrey Ashworth and Anne-Claire Petitcol to preview SIAL Paris 2024 – the largest food and beverage show in the world. Audrey delved into the groundbreaking trends and innovations set to …

Transformational Foodservice Trends: Trusting Your Data Partners

As the foodservice industry continues to engage in a digital transformation, it is more important than ever to trust your data partners. From operators to distributors to manufacturers, every link along the foodservice supply chain …

Food & Beverage Industry M&A: What to Expect in 2024

This webinar, hosted by The Food Institute, will look at the major M&A trends in the food and beverage industry in 2024, featuring a presentation by John Siegler of BMO Capital Markets followed by a ...

Webinar: The Future of Food Retail

In 2024, the food retail industry will face a new set of opportunities and challenges unlike those in previous years. From the impact of inflation, shifts in shopper behavior, increased technological disruption, and competition from ...

Driving Success in Marketing and Design: How Food & Beverage Companies are Winning in 2024

This webinar featured SRW and Barrel – two leading marketing and design companies in the food and beverage CPG space – to share their latest insights on effective marketing and website design strategies for 2024. …

The Future of Restaurants: Data and Insights for 2024 and Beyond

Few sectors of the food industry have seen the same headwinds as the foodservice industry the past few years. The pandemic forced a shift to digital technologies and delivery options, and inflation has pressed consumers ...

How F&B Companies Can Leverage Generative AI

Generative AI burst onto the scene this year as programs like ChatGPT, Bard, and Midjourney demonstrated the vast potential of this emerging technology. Many experts predict that generative AI will soon transform how businesses operate, making right now the perfect time to get ahead of the competition.

Growth Opportunities for Food Manufacturers in 2023

Despite persistent inflation, declining volume sales, and a more reticent consumer, growth opportunities remain for food manufacturers in 2023. The Food Institute hosted this exclusive webinar to explore how the food manufacturing industry can position ...

Food Inflation Outlook: 2023 and Beyond

The lingering effects of rampant inflation and the specter of a possible recession are impacting consumers and companies across the board, and the food space is no different. Increased costs across the value chain are ...

Introducing The Snack 50 – The First Psych-Based Measurement of the World’s Top Snack Brands

Understanding brand strength has remained somewhat of a mystery for many snacking companies. Snack food rankings have historically relied on generic popularity polls, sales data, social listening tools, reviewer critiques, and biased “pay to play” ...

CPG Industry: Key Themes and 2023 Outlook

What is the state of the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry? Watch as Nik Modi of RBC Capital Markets dissected the latest CPG trends in food and beverage and provided his outlook for 2023. Additionally, Modi ...

Training the Next Gen of Food Industry Managers

What separates the average and the exceptional food and beverage company? A key part of the answer may lie in how leaders within the organization are trained. Traditional management theory would suggest that companies should …

Expert: Brands Must Consider Emotional Factors of Inflation

How will consumer behavior shift as prices climb amid inflation? Most c-suites – in food business, and beyond – are inadvertently approaching this question with a purely rational framing, evaluating the marketplace as if every …

Webinar Recap: Health Remains Top Reason for Consuming Probiotics

With consumers prioritizing health more than ever, food makers are turning to functional ingredients like probiotics to provide documented health benefits in food and beverages. In an exclusive Food Institute webinar, bioscience company Chr. Hansen …

Carbon Labeling Claims –  Making Them Work for Your Company

Editor’s note: The Food Institute, partnering with OFW Law, is hosting a webinar Feb. 17: “Carbon Labeling Claims for the Food and Restaurant Industries,” discussing must-know details of carbon emissions labeling. The webinar is part …

Food Industry Insiders Say Communication, Personal Connections Key for 2022

Despite rising inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, and labor challenges, the food industry should be looking forward to 2022. Additionally, collaboration, communication, and developing personal connections will be critical growth drivers. These were some of the …

NPD Exec: Restaurant Operators Must Lean Into Off-Premises Opportunities

Prior to last year, David Portalatin noticed it all the time. In his hometown of Houston, restaurant customers sought “Instagrammable moments,” in which they snapped photos of tasty-looking food and friends with whom they were …

FI Webinar Recap: What’s Driving Food & Beverage M&A Activity? 

The food and beverage industry has seen no shortage of mergers and acquisitions of late, to put it mildly. And that begs the question: What, exactly, are the driving forces behind these transactions? In a recent webinar …

Industry Insiders: COVID-19 Pushes Restaurants to Innovate Menus

Restaurant menus – like so much of society amid the pandemic – have undergone a whirlwind of change in recent months. The coronavirus has required as much, with restaurants having to deal with supply uncertainties …

Analysts: Brands Must Embrace Omnichannel Approach

In today’s omnichannel world, customer loyalty is difficult to earn and just as tough to maintain. With that, keeping pace with customers’ evolving tastes is an undeniably tall task. These issues were analyzed recently during …

FI Webinar Recap: Solving Labor Shortages in the Food Industry

Labor shortages have slowed the post-pandemic foodservice renaissance. Restaurants ranging from fine dining to quick serve are looking at approaches to combat the dearth of workers. DMA and The Food Institute brought together four industry …

Customer Development Strategies in a Post-Pandemic Environment

The pandemic has forever changed the foodservice industry, especially how suppliers acquire and develop customers. And it’s a long time coming for an industry used to massive trade shows, guided cuttings and golf outings for …

Can Innovation Preserve Instant Soup’s Popularity?

The instant soup segment is at a crossroads of sorts. The global soup market is projected to reach $21 billion by 2027, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% for the forecast period, …

Restaurants Can Differentiate Themselves and Grow with Plant Based Foods

As U.S. consumers return to restaurants, operators should embrace plant-based foods to differentiate themselves and boost business in the new world of post-pandemic foodservice. A webinar sponsored by DMA (Distribution Market Advantage) and presented by …

State of CBD Industry in the Food & Beverage Sector

CBD continues to be a bright light in the food and beverage industry. However, growth has leveled off from its stellar 2019 gains on a combination of the FDA’s reluctance to approve its usage and …

How the Health and Wellness Trend Is Impacting CPGs

The Health & Wellness movement has made great strides over the past few years. And, the trend only intensified during the pandemic, although indulgent eating was a contradictory development for many consumers. CPG companies are …

Upcoming Webinar: Achieving a Self-Sustainable Business Model

The Food Institute is your single best source for current, timely, and relevant information about the food industry. Learn more at foodinstitute.com. Become a Food Institute member today to get insights into new products, crop …

Food Industry M&A: What to Expect in 2020 & Beyond

This webinar, hosted by the Food Institute, looked at the trends among food industry M&A in 2019 and 2020, current market conditions and the overall M&A landscape, featuring presentations by David Schoeder of The Food …