In the Media

• 20/02/2020 - The New York Time

  Is Coffee Good for You?

  
  

  The concern is heightened, experts say, especially because an estimated 43 percent of teens are now drinking coffee — nearly doubling since 2003 — according to the research firm Kantar, driven partly by sweet drinks.
  
  “People should worry a lot about what they put in the coffee and what the food and beverage industry puts in it,” said Laura Schmidt, a professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

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• 11/02/2020 - WARC

  How to adapt your strategy during the coronavirus lockdown – and what to anticipate after the crisis is over

  
  

  FMCG spending through e-commerce channels in China grew almost seven times as fast as the sector overall in 2019 – a trend that the coronavirus outbreak is likely to accelerate in early 2020. Latest data from Kantar Worldpanel shows that FMCG spending in urban China increased 5.3% last year, but e-commerce in FMCG spending leapt 36.2%.

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• 06/02/2020 - Adweek

  Wendy’s Hopes to Bring Home the Bacon With Nationwide Breakfast Launch

  
  

  Beverage alone is a major breakfast component. According to research and analytics firm Kantar, 5% of Americans will consume a beverage that is bought from a fast food restaurant at breakfast, at least once a week. This category of breakfast drinkers has grown by 14% in the past two years. Each week there are about 22 million beverage purchases at fast food restaurants, or nearly 1.2 billion per year, Kantar added.

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• 05/02/2020 - The Guardian

  Dry January boosts low-alcohol sales for UK supermarkets

  
  

  Veganuary also had a big impact on the supermarket aisles, boosting sales of meat substitutes such as soya mince and vegetarian burgers by 14% and lentils by 6%, according to the latest figures from grocery market analysts Kantar.
  
  Kantar’s Fraser McKevitt said: “Many people start the year with good intentions and pledges to make healthier choices following the excesses of the festive period. Those who committed to drinking less in January helped the retailers boost sales of non-alcoholic beer and adult soft drinks.”

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• 05/02/2020 - The Times

  Dry Veganuary a feast and famine for supermarket sales

  
  

  Britons’ enthusiasm for Veganuary and swearing off the booze last month failed to provide a boost to supermarket sales and all four of the big players lost market share, according to the latest snapshot assessment.
  
  While branded plant-based foods and alcohol-free beer flew off the shelves in January, total grocery market sales over the 12 weeks to the end of last month rose by only 0.3 per cent, figures from Kantar Worldpanel, the retailing expert, showed.

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• 05/02/2020 - Warc

  Good intentions drive new category sales

  
  

  Kantar also reported that sales of meat substitutes such as soya mince or vegetarian burgers and sausages were 14% higher than January last year, while sales of lentils were up 6%, lettuce 10% and aubergine 14%.
  
  And more than twice as many consumers bought one of the supermarkets’ explicitly labelled plant-based products in January 2020 as they did in the more indulgent run-up to Christmas.

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