Sales growth of natural, organic products continues to drop but holds long-term promise

Sales growth of natural, organic products continues to drop but holds long-term promise

Despite this slow down, industry sales in the US are coming off a stronger base compared to pre-pandemic and set to surpass $300b by 2024 and $400b by 2030 – up from the 7.7% increase in 2021 to $274b, Carlotta Mast, senior vice president and market leader at New Hope, told a packed room of … Read more

Organic food gets coronavirus boost

Organic food gets coronavirus boost

A new report from Ecovia Intelligence suggests that organic sales have seen a ‘hefty sales increase’ globally. Online retailers are reporting the highest sales growth. In the US, Whole Foods Market has started limiting the number of its online grocery customers because of unprecedented demand. Meanwhile in the UK, Abel & Cole reported a 25% … Read more

Downtown Binghamton Shop Debuts Some Exotic and Unusual Snacks

Downtown Binghamton Shop Debuts Some Exotic and Unusual Snacks

The Lay’s spicy lobster potato chips and the white peach oolong Pepsi have just arrived at a new store on Court Street in Binghamton. Those are only two examples of the exotic snack foods now on the shelves of Beer Bros, which opened last month. As its name suggests, the big draw for the store … Read more

Can Germany hit its ambitious organic target? ‘Time is of the essence to restructure the food industry’

Can Germany hit its ambitious organic target? ‘Time is of the essence to restructure the food industry’

Germany is the largest market for organic food in Europe. According to figures from industry body Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (BÖLW), the organic market grew to a value of €14.99 billion last year, up from €12.26 billion in 2019. Germans bought 22% more organic food and beverages during a period that saw organic sales increase at … Read more

‘We’ve seen a lot of retailers pull back tremendously [from fresh baby food]’

'We’ve seen a lot of retailers pull back tremendously [from fresh baby food]'

According to Regina Lee Fechter, vice president of innovation and e-commerce at Happy Family Organics, which makes non-perishable products for pregnant mothers and babies to infants, toddlers and toddlers, the overall fresh baby food market has not performed as well as some retailers and gamers in the space may have waited. “We’ve seen a lot … Read more

General Mills talks growth of natural and organic segment

General Mills talks growth of natural and organic segment

Increased sales of the natural and organic products segment are forecast for 2021 + 6.6% to $ 271 billion and expected to exceed $ 300 billion by 2023, Outperforming Total Food and Beverage Growth, According to New Hope. Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA, Priscilla Zee, director of General Mills’ organic and natural products portfolio business unit that … Read more

$20+ Billion Worldwide Organic Snack Food Industry to 2030

$20+ Billion Worldwide Organic Snack Food Industry to 2030

Dublin, Dec 7, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Added report “Global Organic Snacks Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Growth and Change to 2030” ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report provides strategists, marketers, and top management with the critical information they need to assess the global organic snack food market. This report focuses on the organic snack manufacturing market, which … Read more

How the new Regulation tightens the rules

How the new Regulation tightens the rules

In line with the growing demand for products derived from natural substances and processes, the EU organic sector increased by 70% in the last ten years. Data from the European Commission shows that organic retail sales reached 34 billion euros in 2017. This trend is not going to stop, as the proposals for the future … Read more

Affordability and accessibility in organic food

Affordability and accessibility in organic food

The European organic food market continues to grow. According to FiBL, the Organic Agriculture Research Institute, sales reached 45 billion euros in 2019 with a growth rate of 8% in the region. In the decade 2010-2019, the value of the European market has more than doubled, the organization noted. The increase in agricultural land devoted … Read more

Organic sales surge as consumers look for healthy options to eat at home during the pandemic

Organic sales surge as consumers look for healthy options to eat at home during the pandemic

Within organic products, food and beverage sales increased 12.8% in 2020 to $ 56.4 billion, almost three times the growth of 4.6% to $ 50 billion in 2019 and the highest since 2008, OTA found in its 2021 Organic Industry Survey of nearly 200 companies conducted by the Nutrition Business Journal and published today. The … Read more

Changes coming to processing and labelling rules

Changes coming to processing and labelling rules

Labeling terms referring to organic production and the EU organic logo make it easier for consumers to identify organic products and ensure that organic food meets strict production and processing conditions, in accordance with the requirements of the European Union. In line with the general review of organic production, the new Regulation (EU) no 2018/848, … Read more

Sales growth of natural, organic products slows, but still on track to surpass $300bn by 2023

Sales growth of natural, organic products slows, but still on track to surpass $300bn by 2023

Despite the pandemic, and in some way because of the pandemic, [2020 was an] amazing year for us … with total industry sales growing 12.7% to $ 256 billion ”,Carlotta Mast, Senior Vice President and Market Leader for New Hope, said yesterday at the Natural Products Expo East in Philadelphia. He explained to in-person and … Read more