Rockville, MD -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/12/2006 -- While Americans feeding their addiction to munchies shelled out $61.4 billion for snack foods in 2005, a greater portion of their cash outlay went to healthier products, according to Snack Food Trends in the U.S., a new report from Packaged Facts.

Whether from guilt by association—Americans also spent $61 billion in direct healthcare costs to take care of obesity related issues—or due to a more accountable industry introducing "healthier-for-you" snack foods, America is paying attention to what we're eating.

Carefree snacking is over as evidenced by plummeting sales in certain segments. Cookies and bakery snacks have suffered the most, with sales down $334 million from 2001-2005. The crackers and Popcorn/rice cakes segments each experienced losses of $45 million.

Yet Packaged Facts confirms that the trend towards healthier eating has been a boon for other segments, with yogurt snacks leading in dollar growth with gains of $721 million. Food bars and nut snacks also saw healthy gains during the five year period in which greater emphasis has been placed on heightened "natural" and nutritional tags such as "no trans fat" and "nothing artificial."

"In the last five years, snacking overall has increased by 1.5% as the trend for meals being replaced by snacks continues to grow," notes Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers, are serious about these 'meals' being healthy. Simultaneously, manufacturers are serious about meeting consumer, watchdog, and governmental demands to make snacks more nutritious—particularly those aimed at kids. These factors are driving a fundamental industry shift which should expand it while making snacking healthier."

Snack Food Trends in the U.S. is an extensive look into the world of sweet and salty snacks with individual chapters focusing on trends in healthy and kids' snacks. Featuring major brand profiles and cross comparisons of products, the report also includes candy, fruit snacks, dried meat snacks, and gelatin/pudding cups. Priced at $3000, this report is available from Packaged Facts by visiting: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119533.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts
Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

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Rockville, MD -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/12/2006 -- While Americans feeding their addiction to munchies shelled out $61.4 billion for snack foods in 2005, a greater portion of their cash outlay went to healthier products, according to Snack Food Trends in the U.S., a new report from Packaged Facts.

Whether from guilt by association—Americans also spent $61 billion in direct healthcare costs to take care of obesity related issues—or due to a more accountable industry introducing "healthier-for-you" snack foods, America is paying attention to what we're eating.

Carefree snacking is over as evidenced by plummeting sales in certain segments. Cookies and bakery snacks have suffered the most, with sales down $334 million from 2001-2005. The crackers and Popcorn/rice cakes segments each experienced losses of $45 million.

Yet Packaged Facts confirms that the trend towards healthier eating has been a boon for other segments, with yogurt snacks leading in dollar growth with gains of $721 million. Food bars and nut snacks also saw healthy gains during the five year period in which greater emphasis has been placed on heightened "natural" and nutritional tags such as "no trans fat" and "nothing artificial."

"In the last five years, snacking overall has increased by 1.5% as the trend for meals being replaced by snacks continues to grow," notes Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers, are serious about these 'meals' being healthy. Simultaneously, manufacturers are serious about meeting consumer, watchdog, and governmental demands to make snacks more nutritious—particularly those aimed at kids. These factors are driving a fundamental industry shift which should expand it while making snacking healthier."

Snack Food Trends in the U.S. is an extensive look into the world of sweet and salty snacks with individual chapters focusing on trends in healthy and kids' snacks. Featuring major brand profiles and cross comparisons of products, the report also includes candy, fruit snacks, dried meat snacks, and gelatin/pudding cups. Priced at $3000, this report is available from Packaged Facts by visiting: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119533.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts

Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Rockville, MD -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/12/2006 -- While Americans feeding their addiction to munchies shelled out $61.4 billion for snack foods in 2005, a greater portion of their cash outlay went to healthier products, according to Snack Food Trends in the U.S., a new report from Packaged Facts.

Whether from guilt by association—Americans also spent $61 billion in direct healthcare costs to take care of obesity related issues—or due to a more accountable industry introducing "healthier-for-you" snack foods, America is paying attention to what we're eating.

Carefree snacking is over as evidenced by plummeting sales in certain segments. Cookies and bakery snacks have suffered the most, with sales down $334 million from 2001-2005. The crackers and Popcorn/rice cakes segments each experienced losses of $45 million.

Yet Packaged Facts confirms that the trend towards healthier eating has been a boon for other segments, with yogurt snacks leading in dollar growth with gains of $721 million. Food bars and nut snacks also saw healthy gains during the five year period in which greater emphasis has been placed on heightened "natural" and nutritional tags such as "no trans fat" and "nothing artificial."

"In the last five years, snacking overall has increased by 1.5% as the trend for meals being replaced by snacks continues to grow," notes Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers, are serious about these 'meals' being healthy. Simultaneously, manufacturers are serious about meeting consumer, watchdog, and governmental demands to make snacks more nutritious—particularly those aimed at kids. These factors are driving a fundamental industry shift which should expand it while making snacking healthier."

Snack Food Trends in the U.S. is an extensive look into the world of sweet and salty snacks with individual chapters focusing on trends in healthy and kids' snacks. Featuring major brand profiles and cross comparisons of products, the report also includes candy, fruit snacks, dried meat snacks, and gelatin/pudding cups. Priced at $3000, this report is available from Packaged Facts by visiting: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119533.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts

Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

From the latest research on power tools and fencing, to the newest trends in personal protective gear and paint and wall coverings, SBI reports provide a broad, top-level overview of each market, and offer not only the raw data, but expert interpretation of that data as well, making each report more relevant and usable to industry leaders. With the ability to produce up-to-the-minute reports on emerging trends such as green packaging and household storage, Specialists in Business Information has continued a ten year tradition of making a name for itself as a leading provider of industrial market research.

"Our commitment to providing world-class research, expert analysis, and, above all else, complimentary, personalized client support, has helped us build a reputation as being a research firm that not only produces the highest quality research reports, but also one that works with each individual client as a business partner with whom we can develop business strategies for success," said Don Montuori, the publisher of SBI. "www.SBIReports.com is a way for us to simplify this process by providing business leaders with instant information about market research in these core industries, which often tend to be overlooked in the market research field."

With the launching of www.SBIReports.com, users have access to the full line of SBI products and are also able to contact industry specialists for personalized responses to individual report queries, information about pricing specials, and suggestions for new reports.

Specialists in Business Information anticipates the publication of 30 new reports in 2006, many of which will contain Do-It-Yourself consumer user data and analysis, as the emerging trend of Do-It-Yourself crossing over into professional turf continues to grow. Just published were dual studies on residential and commercial lighting. For more information about these and other SBI reports, or the new website, visit www.sbireports.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Rockville, MD -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/12/2006 -- While Americans feeding their addiction to munchies shelled out $61.4 billion for snack foods in 2005, a greater portion of their cash outlay went to healthier products, according to Snack Food Trends in the U.S., a new report from Packaged Facts.

Whether from guilt by association—Americans also spent $61 billion in direct healthcare costs to take care of obesity related issues—or due to a more accountable industry introducing "healthier-for-you" snack foods, America is paying attention to what we're eating.

Carefree snacking is over as evidenced by plummeting sales in certain segments. Cookies and bakery snacks have suffered the most, with sales down $334 million from 2001-2005. The crackers and Popcorn/rice cakes segments each experienced losses of $45 million.

Yet Packaged Facts confirms that the trend towards healthier eating has been a boon for other segments, with yogurt snacks leading in dollar growth with gains of $721 million. Food bars and nut snacks also saw healthy gains during the five year period in which greater emphasis has been placed on heightened "natural" and nutritional tags such as "no trans fat" and "nothing artificial."

"In the last five years, snacking overall has increased by 1.5% as the trend for meals being replaced by snacks continues to grow," notes Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers, are serious about these 'meals' being healthy. Simultaneously, manufacturers are serious about meeting consumer, watchdog, and governmental demands to make snacks more nutritious—particularly those aimed at kids. These factors are driving a fundamental industry shift which should expand it while making snacking healthier."

Snack Food Trends in the U.S. is an extensive look into the world of sweet and salty snacks with individual chapters focusing on trends in healthy and kids' snacks. Featuring major brand profiles and cross comparisons of products, the report also includes candy, fruit snacks, dried meat snacks, and gelatin/pudding cups. Priced at $3000, this report is available from Packaged Facts by visiting: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119533.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts

Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

From the latest research on power tools and fencing, to the newest trends in personal protective gear and paint and wall coverings, SBI reports provide a broad, top-level overview of each market, and offer not only the raw data, but expert interpretation of that data as well, making each report more relevant and usable to industry leaders. With the ability to produce up-to-the-minute reports on emerging trends such as green packaging and household storage, Specialists in Business Information has continued a ten year tradition of making a name for itself as a leading provider of industrial market research.

"Our commitment to providing world-class research, expert analysis, and, above all else, complimentary, personalized client support, has helped us build a reputation as being a research firm that not only produces the highest quality research reports, but also one that works with each individual client as a business partner with whom we can develop business strategies for success," said Don Montuori, the publisher of SBI. "www.SBIReports.com is a way for us to simplify this process by providing business leaders with instant information about market research in these core industries, which often tend to be overlooked in the market research field."

With the launching of www.SBIReports.com, users have access to the full line of SBI products and are also able to contact industry specialists for personalized responses to individual report queries, information about pricing specials, and suggestions for new reports.

Specialists in Business Information anticipates the publication of 30 new reports in 2006, many of which will contain Do-It-Yourself consumer user data and analysis, as the emerging trend of Do-It-Yourself crossing over into professional turf continues to grow. Just published were dual studies on residential and commercial lighting. For more information about these and other SBI reports, or the new website, visit www.sbireports.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

Despite the overall aging of the worldwide population, children remain the bulk of the dependant population worldwide with nine in every ten people falling into a pediatric age range in regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As the treatment of pediatric conditions and diseases and promoting healthy growth into adulthood will remain constant incentives to pharmaceutical manufacturers, The Worldwide Market for Prescription Pediatric Drugs predicts upward growth of sales of $34 billion in 2004, with 2005 figures expected to reach $36.4 billion.

"As global concern for children's rights increases, and the need for access to age-appropriate drug information by healthcare providers intensifies, we're beginning to see a shift in regulatory and manufacturing attitudes, which is extremely healthy for the pediatric pharmaceutical market," notes Melissa Elder, the report's author. "With renewed governmental support and favorable 'exclusivity incentives' in place, manufacturers have increased motivation to work with clinicians and researchers in academic settings to study the effectiveness of both new and established drugs in children. We should see a healthy increase in the quantity and quality of pediatric drugs in the next few years."

This 2nd Edition of The Worldwide Market for Prescription Pediatric Drugs examines the U.S. and world markets for eight sectors, including: allergy/respiratory; anti-infectives; cancer; cardiovascular; central nervous system; gastrointestinal; hormone; and other drugs. With more than 180 exhibits, including detailed discussions of global conditions and diseases affecting pediatric populations, this report can be purchased directly from Kalorama Information by clicking http://www.kaloramainformation.com/pub/1185948.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Kalorama Information

Kalorama Information, a division of MarketResearch.com, supplies the latest in independent market research for the life sciences. For more information, contact Steven Heffner at 212-807-2634 or sheffner@kaloramainformation.com, or visit www.KaloramaInformation.com.

About MarketResearch.com

With over 100,000 research reports from 500 research publishers, MarketResearch.com is the leading provider of global market research products and services. For more information, contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014 or tehart@marketresearch.com, or visit www.MarketResearch.com.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Rockville, MD -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/12/2006 -- While Americans feeding their addiction to munchies shelled out $61.4 billion for snack foods in 2005, a greater portion of their cash outlay went to healthier products, according to Snack Food Trends in the U.S., a new report from Packaged Facts.

Whether from guilt by association—Americans also spent $61 billion in direct healthcare costs to take care of obesity related issues—or due to a more accountable industry introducing "healthier-for-you" snack foods, America is paying attention to what we're eating.

Carefree snacking is over as evidenced by plummeting sales in certain segments. Cookies and bakery snacks have suffered the most, with sales down $334 million from 2001-2005. The crackers and Popcorn/rice cakes segments each experienced losses of $45 million.

Yet Packaged Facts confirms that the trend towards healthier eating has been a boon for other segments, with yogurt snacks leading in dollar growth with gains of $721 million. Food bars and nut snacks also saw healthy gains during the five year period in which greater emphasis has been placed on heightened "natural" and nutritional tags such as "no trans fat" and "nothing artificial."

"In the last five years, snacking overall has increased by 1.5% as the trend for meals being replaced by snacks continues to grow," notes Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers, are serious about these 'meals' being healthy. Simultaneously, manufacturers are serious about meeting consumer, watchdog, and governmental demands to make snacks more nutritious—particularly those aimed at kids. These factors are driving a fundamental industry shift which should expand it while making snacking healthier."

Snack Food Trends in the U.S. is an extensive look into the world of sweet and salty snacks with individual chapters focusing on trends in healthy and kids' snacks. Featuring major brand profiles and cross comparisons of products, the report also includes candy, fruit snacks, dried meat snacks, and gelatin/pudding cups. Priced at $3000, this report is available from Packaged Facts by visiting: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1119533.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts

Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes market intelligence on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

From the latest research on power tools and fencing, to the newest trends in personal protective gear and paint and wall coverings, SBI reports provide a broad, top-level overview of each market, and offer not only the raw data, but expert interpretation of that data as well, making each report more relevant and usable to industry leaders. With the ability to produce up-to-the-minute reports on emerging trends such as green packaging and household storage, Specialists in Business Information has continued a ten year tradition of making a name for itself as a leading provider of industrial market research.

"Our commitment to providing world-class research, expert analysis, and, above all else, complimentary, personalized client support, has helped us build a reputation as being a research firm that not only produces the highest quality research reports, but also one that works with each individual client as a business partner with whom we can develop business strategies for success," said Don Montuori, the publisher of SBI. "www.SBIReports.com is a way for us to simplify this process by providing business leaders with instant information about market research in these core industries, which often tend to be overlooked in the market research field."

With the launching of www.SBIReports.com, users have access to the full line of SBI products and are also able to contact industry specialists for personalized responses to individual report queries, information about pricing specials, and suggestions for new reports.

Specialists in Business Information anticipates the publication of 30 new reports in 2006, many of which will contain Do-It-Yourself consumer user data and analysis, as the emerging trend of Do-It-Yourself crossing over into professional turf continues to grow. Just published were dual studies on residential and commercial lighting. For more information about these and other SBI reports, or the new website, visit www.sbireports.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

Despite the overall aging of the worldwide population, children remain the bulk of the dependant population worldwide with nine in every ten people falling into a pediatric age range in regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As the treatment of pediatric conditions and diseases and promoting healthy growth into adulthood will remain constant incentives to pharmaceutical manufacturers, The Worldwide Market for Prescription Pediatric Drugs predicts upward growth of sales of $34 billion in 2004, with 2005 figures expected to reach $36.4 billion.

"As global concern for children's rights increases, and the need for access to age-appropriate drug information by healthcare providers intensifies, we're beginning to see a shift in regulatory and manufacturing attitudes, which is extremely healthy for the pediatric pharmaceutical market," notes Melissa Elder, the report's author. "With renewed governmental support and favorable 'exclusivity incentives' in place, manufacturers have increased motivation to work with clinicians and researchers in academic settings to study the effectiveness of both new and established drugs in children. We should see a healthy increase in the quantity and quality of pediatric drugs in the next few years."

This 2nd Edition of The Worldwide Market for Prescription Pediatric Drugs examines the U.S. and world markets for eight sectors, including: allergy/respiratory; anti-infectives; cancer; cardiovascular; central nervous system; gastrointestinal; hormone; and other drugs. With more than 180 exhibits, including detailed discussions of global conditions and diseases affecting pediatric populations, this report can be purchased directly from Kalorama Information by clicking http://www.kaloramainformation.com/pub/1185948.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Kalorama Information

Kalorama Information, a division of MarketResearch.com, supplies the latest in independent market research for the life sciences. For more information, contact Steven Heffner at 212-807-2634 or sheffner@kaloramainformation.com, or visit www.KaloramaInformation.com.

About MarketResearch.com

With over 100,000 research reports from 500 research publishers, MarketResearch.com is the leading provider of global market research products and services. For more information, contact Tom Ehart at 240-747-3014 or tehart@marketresearch.com, or visit www.MarketResearch.com.

In this groundbreaking report, Packaged Facts reveals that a full 25% of the general population can be classified as "highly aware", concerned, and actively avoiding foods and food sources they believe to be unsafe. Yet safety rarely gets the focus it deserves from manufacturers, retailers, and food service providers—until there's a problem.

"Paramount for the food industry is understanding that safety has grown from the sporadic scares about Salmonella and E.coli contamination into a huge area of consumer concern," said Don Montuori, the publisher of Packaged Facts. "Consumers are educating themselves about major food issues, such as allergens, contamination and spoilage, growing and processing practices, and ingredient content such as GMOs. This awareness is growing swiftly in every demographic in society and is affecting how and where consumers are spending their food dollars."

Drawing on more than six months of primary, proprietary research that involved more than 400 U.S. consumers, Understanding Consumer Attitudes About Food Safety demonstrates consumers' sense of perceived safeness for both foods and food sources, as well as the steps they take to avoid foods and establishments which they consider unsafe. Additionally, consumers responded to a battery of over 140 statements, enabling the compilation of the first-ever Attitudinal Segmentation of Food Safety Perceptions and psychographic profiles.

Understanding Consumer Attitudes About Food Safety offers the food industry first-hand insight into the consumer psyche surrounding safety, and offers a unique roadmap to responding to, and benefiting from, these insights. Priced at $6000, this report can be purchased directly from Packaged Facts by clicking: http://www.packagedfacts.com/pub/1034737.html. It is also available at MarketResearch.com.

About Packaged Facts

Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, publishes research reports on a wide range of consumer industries, including consumer goods and retailing, foods and beverages, and demographics. For more information visit www.PackagedFacts.com, or contact Tom Ehart at 301-468-3650 x250, or tehart@marketresearch.com.

About Wharf Research

Wharf Research is a full service quantitative and qualitative research company serving the consumer goods marketplace. At its San Francisco headquarters, the company conducts proprietary research among the nationally diverse visitors from all 50 states. For more information, visit www.wharfresearch.com or contact Kimberly Egan at 405-693-8900.

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