Retail and consumer insight
Understanding the consumer
We want the UK food supply chain, from farm to fork, to understand the needs of modern food consumers and that their attitudes toward cooking, buying and eating are important considerations for the whole supply chain.
This means we want you as farmers, growers, retailers and processors to be as well informed about consumer behaviours and retail trends as possible, so we can create a world-class domestic and export food industry.
Consumer Insight Webinars
Following an extraordinary few months for the industry, the AHDB Retail & Consumer Insight team delivered a series of six webinars for meat, dairy and produce sectors on the changing market lanscape for retail and foodservice and on the changing consumer landscape and how coronavirus has affected needs for health, environment, provenance and more.
5 November 2020
Consumers had 100 million BBQs this summer. What does this mean for meat, dairy and potatoes?
2 November 2020
What does a second lockdown mean for the out of home market?
28 September 2020
Consumers are using many tactics in store and at home to save money.
28 September 2020
During lockdown we saw an increase in the number of shoppers using milkmen.
16 September 2020
Estimated out-of-home volumes are yet to return to growth for most sectors
26 August 2020
Volume promos will be banned for products high in fat, salt or sugar
26 August 2020
It’s slightly surprising, and against logical thought, that the price of wheat does not translate directly and proportionately to the price of bread
10 August 2020
Sales at meat counters fell 57% in lockdown but have started to recover
7 August 2020
After initial declines at the start of lockdown the takeaway market has returned to its pre-COVID high
29 July 2020
For some ‘Super Saturday’ was the day they had been waiting for, the appeal of beer on tap and restaurant food enticing them back out-of-home, but for some it will take more time to feel confident venturing out.
27 July 2020
Steak is now taking a larger share of the market
20 July 2020
Lockdown has led to a surge in interest in consumers buying direct from suppliers, including food boxes and meal kits.
17 July 2020
We are eating more meals for health but health is losing share to enjoyment
6 July 2020
Looking at challenges UK agriculture is facing and how the industry may respond in the coming months and years
3 July 2020
In an ever increasingly competitive environment dairy products are having to constantly innovate to maintain their place on the supermarket shelf.
3 July 2020
During the first 12 weeks of lockdown, British shoppers spent an extra £45m at butchers’ shops than in the same period last year.
24 June 2020
The takeaway market declined by 41% in the month up to mid-April, but things are starting to improve
5 June 2020
Changes in shopping behaviour, the rise of in-home eating and the media focus on coronavirus have all influenced consumer behaviour
26 May 2020
Economic forecasts regarding the size and shape of the recession in the UK, triggered by Covid-19 vary, but all agree it will be the biggest we have seen since the 1940’s.
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