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Gen Z

Understanding Gen Z

How will Gen Z consumers affect food? It’s too early to say — but they are different than Millennials.
Maeve Webster
January 18, 2019
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After a decade or more of focusing largely on the needs, preferences, and behaviors of Millennials, the food industry is ready to focus its attention on Gen Z.
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2019 Meat & Poultry Consumer Trends

Convenience is one of the key issues going into next year.
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Sam Gazdziak
December 18, 2018
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The Power of Meat 2018 Survey, sponsored by Sealed Air's Food Care Division and published by the Food Marketing Institute and the Foundation for Meat & Poultry Research & Education, noted that shoppers increasingly integrate convenience-focused solutions in the meal lineup.
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Shuckman's Employee Hand-Slices Fish

Seafood market flexes creative muscles

The desire for protein-rich, healthy and sustainable meals has affected the types of products that seafood companies offer.
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Sam Gazdziak
December 14, 2018
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While the seafood industry has its challenges that are unique to the animal protein industry, consumer trends tend to overlap across all types of proteins. The same demands that are affecting the pork, beef or chicken sectors have an impact for seafood as well.
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Jorge Izquierdo of PMMI and Andy Hanacek of The National Provisioner

The effect of snacking and convenience on meat and poultry packaging

Episode 3 of The National Provisioner's video series on trends in the meat & poultry industry with Jorge Izquierdo of PMMI.
October 2, 2018
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In this video interview, Jorge Izquierdo of PMMI explains how the trends of consumers toward snacking and convenience in the meat and poultry marketplace has propelled innovation throughout the processing and packaging chain.
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The Bacon Report

2018 Bacon Report: Powerhouse protein

Whether in retail or foodservice applications, bacon continues to win consumers' hearts in an ever-widening variety of uses.
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Elizabeth Fuhrman
September 20, 2018
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The bacon category, including refrigerated bacon and non-branded random weight bacon, recorded its highest dollar sales in five years for the 52 weeks ending July 15, according to Chicago-based IRI data of total U.S. multi-outlets.
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