Nielsen Design Impact Awards
This year’s winners represent a wide range of business situations across food, beverage, personal and home care. Some transformed brands; others tacked challenges with competing in saturated categories; and some adapted heritage brands to stay relevant amid an evolving FMCG landscape.
What OTC Consumers Think About Cannabis
It’s not everyday that a brand-new segment of consumer packaged goods (CPG) products arrives on the scene, not to mention one that we’re projecting will create billions of dollars in sales. But that’s exactly what’s happening with legalized cannabis and cannabis-infused products in the U.S.
A ‘Natural’ Rise in Sustainability Around the World
As companies look to break into new markets, they must understand that each market demands its own approach. In burgeoning sustainability markets, however, natural and organic are paving the way for more detailed and specific claims.
What OTC Companies Can Learn from Seasonality
Seasonality has a huge impact on OTC sales performance, and although it varies by category, 60% of sales are subject to this. We, of course, associate summer with hay fever and allergies; however, lots of other categories also enjoy the seasonal uplifts that come with summer.
How Time of Diagnosis Affects Cancer Survivors’ Media Behaviors
The type of knowledge that each cancer survivor seeks is often influenced by the length of survivorship, and so are the media sources to which cancer survivors look for health care information during the first five years following diagnosis.
Over-the-Counter Allergy Medicines Get a Slow Start As Pollen Season Begins Across the U.S.
Despite the annual arrival of common allergens, over-the-counter allergy medications have not experienced a corresponding a lift in sales this season. In fact, sales have declined slightly.
Looking Beyond Your Own Aisle: Total Store Trends
Sometimes growth opportunities lie adjacent to your own business. Looking beyond your core areas of expertise can help you capitalize on larger trends and turn a low-growth or even stagnant market into one full of new and emerging opportunities.
Webinar: The Future of Beauty
More than nearly any other fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, the mass market beauty industry is guided by trends. This webinar explores the three big, systemic shifts that are redefining the industry and could position brands for growth.
What’s Hot When Consumers are Down With a Cold
Aside from the few growth pockets, U.S. sales growth has been elusive across the store. But Americans remain focused on their health care needs. In fact, health care sales were up $1 billion.
What is Means to Be 'Natural' in the U.S. Beauty Market
The ways shoppers are looking for more natural beauty products is evolving. And what the word natural means to one shopper might be very different from what it means to another.