Packaged Facts “Fats and Salad/Cooking Oils in the U.S.: Butter, Margarine, Olive Oil, and Beyond” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/04/2011 -- Fats and oils products are a huge and growing market, with 2011 sales of $9.2 billion projected to near $10.6 billion by 2016. Research supporting the important role of specific types of fat in maintaining health has caused many consumers to rethink the role that fats and oils play in their diets, and marketers have responded by offering an increasing number of products squarely targeting those seeking healthy options. While value is still one of the primary drivers of fats and oils purchases, with private-label products dominating in a few key categories, the economy has recovered to the extent that consumers are once again making health and convenience budgetary priorities.

This completely new Packaged Facts report examines the U.S. market for fats and oils within the context of broader food industry trends in new product development and marketing.

Major categories covered include butter, margarine, mayonnaise, cooking/salad oil, olive oil, cooking sprays, shortening, and popcorn oil. To accommodate the complexities of the U.S. market within shifting socioeconomic contexts, the report investigates not only the sales data, new product introductions, and marketing strategies, but also the lifestyle patterns determining trends in fats and oils.

Custom Packaged Facts consumer survey data provide insight into fats and oils usage, purchasing patterns, and health and wellness trends across consumer demographics, and Experian Simmons Market Research Bureau data provide a detailed look at category-level and brand penetration levels. The report uses Information Resources, Inc. InfoScan Review data to quantify mass-market marketer and brand shares across seven product categories, and SPINSscan data to present category sales breakdowns in the natural and gourmet/specialty channels. Marketer and brand profiles in major categories further define the relationship between consumer attitudes and the market exigencies of product development.

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Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/04/2011 -- Fats and oils products are a huge and growing market, with 2011 sales of $9.2 billion projected to near $10.6 billion by 2016. Research supporting the important role of specific types of fat in maintaining health has caused many consumers to rethink the role that fats and oils play in their diets, and marketers have responded by offering an increasing number of products squarely targeting those seeking healthy options. While value is still one of the primary drivers of fats and oils purchases, with private-label products dominating in a few key categories, the economy has recovered to the extent that consumers are once again making health and convenience budgetary priorities.

This completely new report examines the U.S. market for fats and oils within the context of broader food industry trends in new product development and marketing. Major categories covered include butter, margarine, mayonnaise, cooking/salad oil, olive oil, cooking sprays, shortening, and popcorn oil. To accommodate the complexities of the U.S. market within shifting socioeconomic contexts, the report investigates not only the sales data, new product introductions, and marketing strategies, but also the lifestyle patterns determining trends in fats and oils.

Custom Packaged Facts consumer survey data provide insight into fats and oils usage, purchasing patterns, and health and wellness trends across consumer demographics, and Experian Simmons Market Research Bureau data provide a detailed look at category-level and brand penetration levels. The report uses Information Resources, Inc. InfoScan Review data to quantify mass-market marketer and brand shares across seven product categories, and SPINSscan data to present category sales breakdowns in the natural and gourmet/specialty channels. Marketer and brand profiles in major categories further define the relationship between consumer attitudes and the market exigencies of product development.

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Packaged Facts “Healthy 50+ Americans: Trends and Opportunities in the Emerging Wellness Market” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2011 -- This Packaged Facts report focuses on the market potential of the 26 million "Healthy Consumers" who are 50 years old and over and who are pursuing a wellness regime that includes healthy eating and regular exercise. Anchored by boomers who firmly believe that getting older means getting better, Packaged Facts' Healthy 50+ Americans: Trends and Opportunities in the Emerging Wellness Market offers marketers a look into the future of an America where 50+ consumers will generate an increasingly large share of consumer spending power.

With an aggregate household income of $1 trillion, Healthy 50+ Consumers are prime targets for marketers of a wide range of consumer goods and services. Compared to others in their age group, they have higher household incomes and are more confident about the economy as a whole as well as their own financial futures. Healthy 50+ Consumers shop more often, dine out more regularly and travel more frequently. Healthy 50+ Consumers represent a demanding but lucrative consumer segment. For example, they look for quality when they buy clothes and seek out natural and organic products in the aisles of supermarkets and on the shelves of drug stores.

The report begins with a chapter on trends affecting the 50+ health and wellness consumer market and opportunities generated by Healthy 50+ Consumers and a chapter assessing the size and growth of the Healthy 50+ Consumer market. A chapter detailing the core values of 50+ consumers who aspire to health and wellness is followed by an analysis of the fitness activities and healthy eating habits of Healthy 50+ Consumers and an overview of their health management practices. The report continues with a chapter analyzing the financial status and financial management practices of Healthy 50+ Consumers and a chapter exploring their shopping and buying habits. The report concludes with an in-depth review of the leisure and entertainment choices of Healthy 50+ Consumers.

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Women in the Vanguard of March to Wellness
Healthy 50+ Consumers are more likely to be women than men (53% vs. 47%). One reason for the gender disparity lies in the fact that women are more numerous in the 65+ age group as a whole because of the shorter life expectancy of men. [Table 3-2]

However, data compiled by Packaged Facts February 2011 Online Consumer Survey suggest that the preponderance of women among Healthy 50+ Consumers results from factors other than purely demographic ones. As seen in Figure 3-1, regardless of age, women are more likely than men to report that they are consciously pursuing wellness goals.

Entertainment Habits Generate Possibilities

As seen in Chapter 5, "Keeping Fit," and Chapter 9, "Leisure and Entertainment," pursuing wellness after 50 involves a higher level of activity than that associated with other consumers in the 50+ age group. Healthy 50+ Consumers account for 15% of those going to a family restaurant/steak house in the last 30 days and 16% of those attending a live theater event in the past 12 months. At the same time, Healthy 50+ Consumers view reading as a valuable activity. They account for 13% of those buying books at a bookstore in the past 12 months.[Table 2-10]

Aging Boomers and Wellness Concerns Converge to Shift Thinking about Getting Old

Data compiled by Packaged Facts February 2011 Online Consumer Survey confirm the ongoing shifts in perceptions of aging on the part of 50+ consumers, especially among those committed to pursuing wellness. As seen in Table 2-1, respondents 50 years old and over whose daily routine is significantly affected by wellness goals and concerns are most likely to agree with the proposition "60 is the new 50 and 70 is the new 60." Nearly seven in 10 (68%) of 50+ consumers who are concerned with wellness have stretched their definitions of aging, compared to 58% of the 50+ age group as a whole and 62% of those under the age of 50 who are concerned about wellness in their daily lives.

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Packaged Facts “Kids Food and Beverage Market in the U.S.” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2011 -- Many of the more than 43 million kids have become quite food savvy as a result of watching TV cooking shows with their foodie parents and being exposed to new foods while traveling and eating out. This has created both opportunities and challenges for developers and marketers, as kids have become more willing to explore new foods, but at the same time more discriminating when it comes to food selection. Marketers' greatest concern used to was the gatekeeper, who ultimately made the decision to purchase a product. But today, the little foodies of the world expect more from what they are being served … more in terms of presentation, taste, and quality.

Fact is, the kids' food market is a broad and complex one, spanning numerous categories and product segments. In Kids Food and Beverage Market in the U.S., Packaged Facts qualifies a food as being a kids' food when it has a taste kids love; nutrition kids need; or entertainment kids crave. Ideally the product possesses all three of these characteristics. This is accomplished through formulation, packaging, and marketing.

There are a number of reasons why food marketers are developing products specifically for the 2- to 12-year-old age group.

For starters, this demographic represents about one-seventh of the population. It is also the most influential demographic for marketers. Life-long dietary habits are established during this 10-year age span, and brand loyalty begins. These factors and more are influencing the $10 billion market for children's food and beverages.

Scope of Report

This report focuses on retail-packaged food and beverage products, or simply foods, targeted to children in the 2- to 12-year-old age group. Packaged Facts divides the kids market into three segments:
• 2- to 5-year-olds, or preschoolers;
• 6- to 9-year-olds, or younger kids; and
• 10- to 12-year-olds, or tweens.

Report Methodology
The information contained in this report was obtained from primary and secondary research. Primary research entailed consultations with food and beverage market sources and on-site examination of retail venues. Secondary research included extensive Internet canvassing and research- and data-gathering from relevant consumer business and trade publications; company reports including annual reports, press releases, and investor conference calls; company profiles in trade and consumer publications; government reports; and other food and beverage market reports by Packaged Facts.

Our consumer demographics analysis draws primarily on data compiled by Experian Simmons, New York. Each year, Experian Simmons surveys a large sample of consumers about their personal and household buying habits. The results cited in this report are based on the Spring 2010 survey (April 2009 to June 2010), and on a sample size of 23,572 adults, which represents approximately 115 million households. Of these households, 22%, or 25,085, have children under the age of 12-years old.

Additionally, data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) provides insight into children and the obesity epidemic. Data on new product introductions are based on Product Launch Analytics, a Datamonitor service. Various sales estimates and data pertaining to marketers of children's food and beverage products are partially derived from figures based on SymphonyIRI sales tracked through U.S. supermarkets and grocery stores, drugstores, and mass merchandisers (including Target and Kmart, but excluding Walmart) with annual sales of $2 million or more.

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Traditional vs. Better-for-You Shares
The $10 billion kids' market can also be broken down into traditional and better-for-you products. Packaged Facts estimates that in 2010, 40%, or $4 billion of the kids' food market, could be described as having some better-for-you element.

This includes products with claims such as "made with whole wheat" and "lower sugar." The other 60%, or $6 billion of products, are described as traditional. The primary sub-category that keeps the traditional segment in the lead is ice cream/novelties. Even most fruit chews/gummies now sport a "contains 100% of the Daily Value for vitamin C" claim, while about a half of aseptic juice/fruit drinks are now described as "lower sugar." Packaged Facts anticipates that this share of sales will flip-flop by 2015. [Figure 3-3]

"The Power of Protein at the Breakfast Table"
That's the phrase used to introduce the section of Sara Lee's 2010 annual report that is devoted to the Jimmy Dean brand, which is named after the country singer and sausage entrepreneur whose business the company acquired in the 1980s. Sara Lee describes the brand as a "protein breakfast platform."

According to Packaged Facts' Frozen Foods in the U.S., 3rd Edition (January 2011), Jimmy Dean corners the breakfast hand-held market, with a year-over-year gain of $43 million for the 52 weeks ending October 5, 2010 in channels tracked by SymphonyIRI; a total of $214 million in sales; and a 57% share of the breakfast hand-held category. And Frozen Convenience Foods in the U.S. (Packaged Facts, December 2010) reports that Sara Lee also leads the breakfast entrees category. Together, the Jimmy Dean products grew 5% in the 52 weeks ending July 11, 2010 to reach sales of $133 million. That constituted a 35% share of breakfast entrees. The main difference between Sara Lee's fortunes in the two categories is that while it leads in frozen breakfast entrees, it completely dominates in frozen breakfast hand-helds.

Where Consumers Buy Kids' Foods and Beverages
In terms of purchasing kids' foods, Packaged Facts estimates that the majority of America shops traditional supermarkets (60%) followed by mass merchandisers (25%). However, just as mainstream America shops a variety of retail outlets, so do parents purchasing kids' foods. In fact, thanks to organic/natural/specialty foods stores' efforts to appeal to parents with "more-healthful" kids' products, this outlet is giving more traditional venues some serious competition when it comes to kids' foods. It controls 10% of the market.

Club stores have a mere 3% share of dollar sales of kids' foods, as offerings are mostly limited to juice boxes and some snacks. All other channels make up the remaining 2% share.

Kids' foods, as defined in this report, are often too segmented for many of these other channels to carry many SKUS, if any. [Figure 6-4]

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Packaged Facts “Trends in U.S. Military and Correctional Facility Food and Foodservice” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2011 -- For food and foodservice manufacturers, suppliers and operators, speaking the language of the military is big business, which Packaged Facts' Trends in U.S. Military Food and Foodservice helps participants translate into increased sales. In particular, we believe the future of military foodservice contracting is bright, fueled by governmental needs to increase efficiencies and consolidate contracts. Current Marine Corps and the Air Force contracting trends foreshadow significant upside potential for foodservice contractors over the next several years.

More broadly, the U.S. Department of Defense is the nation's largest employer—and a gateway to more than 3.2 million people. But the scope of military reach extends to the more than 12 million military members, families and retirees who depend on its wide net of retail, military installation, and combat food and foodservice operations, which have an international reach that incorporates everything from food and beverage supply to foodservice management to restaurant franchising.

By mirroring much of what foodservice can mean to people in the civilian world, military foodservice can—and does—play a role beyond just subsistence, providing food via structures, methods and atmospheres that meet—and enhance—lifestyle needs ranging from convenience-driven solutions to increased food variety to emotional uplift.

And with the Armed Services framing "nutritional fitness" as a military services priority, the report provides insight on the significant trends afoot related to soldier health and wellness, including obesity challenges, menu changes, educational initiatives, combat ration modifications, and day part trends.

The report also assesses attitudes toward various on-installation and off-installation foodservice options, and it analyzes off-site foodservice spending among military service members, military spouses, civilians and retirees.

The report covers food and foodservice operations at military installations, including mess halls, exchanges and recreational facilities; and food and foodservice field training and contingency operations. While it focuses primarily on domestic military food and foodservice, the report also presents global U.S. military foodservice sales and trend analysis.

It contains market size estimates for a range of military food and foodservice categories and programs, including military clubs and exchanges; food and foodservice contracts; prime vendor food and foodservice sales; military commissary sales; military exchange sales; and Military Morale, Welfare, and Recreation program sales.

As a bonus, the report also includes an overview of the U.S. correctional facilities foodservice market, including growth drivers, market sizing and forecasting, prison cost trends, state correctional facility budgeting trends, state prison count reduction strategies, foodservice cost analysis, and foodservice cost cutting initiatives.

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Foodservice at U.S. Corrections Facilities
In this section, we provide an overview of the U.S. correctional facilities foodservice market,including growth drivers, market sizing and forecasting, prison cost trends, state correctional facility budgeting trends, state prison count reduction strategies, foodservice cost analysis, and foodservice cost cutting initiatives.

Packaged Facts estimates that U.S. correctional facilities foodservice sales reached $1.74 billion in 2010, a 2.2% increase from 2009, and a compound annual growth rate of 2.6% from 2005 to 2010.

However, we forecast that the market will decline in 2011 and 2012, driven downward by incremental reductions in the overall prison population and significant budget cutting initiatives at the state level.

Joint Services Prime Vendor Program
The Joint Services Prime Vendor Program (JSPVP) provides quality food and food-related supplies on a pre-negotiated basis to more than 1,000 military (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) MWR and exchange foodservice operations at 235 installations around the world. The primary customers of the JSPVP are MWR and Naval Air Facility (NAF) foodservice activities from the Army, Navy, NEXCOM, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Its buying power allows the JSPVP to achieve savings over street pricing and to establish pricing agreements with manufacturers for bulk purchases. In fiscal 2010, program purchases
totaled $147 million.

Military Deli & Bakery Services, Inc.
Incorporated in 1996, Military Deli & Bakery Services, Inc. (MDBS) is the largest operator of deli and bakery departments in military commissaries. Privately owned and managed by Tim Howard, MDBS has revenues exceeding $70 million. Our overall business strategy is to increase sales by attracting more customers and finding more items that our current customers want to buy.

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Packaged Facts “Functional and Natural Ready-to-Drink Beverages in the U.S.” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2011 -- Packaged Facts' Functional and Natural RTD Beverages in the U.S. offers a comprehensive look at the $21 billion market for single-serve, ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages across three categories and several competing product segments: (1) energy drinks/shots, sports drinks, and nutrient-enhanced waters, in itself a $15 billion category; (2) RTD tea and coffee, and (3) refrigerated yogurt drinks and juice/fruit smoothies. A 7% aggregate compound annual growth rate for these products over the most recent five-year period is a testament to the strength of the market before 2007 and since 2010. In the recessionary years of 2008 and 2009, most of these product segments flat-lined in sales growth, in keeping with the overall sales slump in foods and beverages as well as in the U.S. consumer economy overall. By 2010, nonetheless, energy/sports drinks and RTD tea/coffee showed renewed dynamism, signaling the onset of a new cycle of sales growth for these convenience, refreshment and re-charge beverages. However controversial some energy drinks may be, this lively product segment continues to call the shots in the market, accounting for 44% of the total product introductions in 2010. Many new product introductions in rival "pick up, pick me up" beverage segments are clearly marching to the beat of energy drinks or energy shots, and the newest product segment in this market, nutrient-enhanced waters, competes as a lighter re-mix of energy/sports drinks.

Functional and Natural RTD Beverages in the U.S. examines sales and trends across the retail spectrum, using proprietary primary data from Packaged Facts' March 2011 food shoppers Insights survey as well as retail sales-tracking data from Information Resources, Inc. InfoScan Review for mass channels and SPINSscan Review for the natural channel. This report tabulates market composition by product category and retail channel, as well as marketer/brand shares within and across product segments. The analysis pays special attention to cross-category trends in new product development, drawing on comprehensive new product data from Datamonitor's Product Launch Analytics database, and analyzes consumer usage (including demographic and psychographic context) based on current and five-year-trended Experian Simmons national consumer survey data.

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Convenience Stores Claim Half of Category
Convenience stores are the leading channel for the energy drinks, sports drinks, and functional waters category, according to Packaged Facts estimates, accounting for half (50%) of overall sales.

Supermarkets and mass merchandisers/supercenters follow with about 19% of sales each. [Figure 1-3]

A Boost from Antioxidants
Antioxidants have a reputation of protecting against cellular damage and a variety of ailments as well as promoting bodily defenses against aging. Antioxidant ingredients are present in numerous products in the market, and tea especially is naturally high in antioxidants. In a Packaged Facts 2011 online survey of consumers who had shopped for groceries within the last 24 hours, 8% indicated that they had purchased grocery products with high antioxidant claims, making high antioxidants a top ten consumer nutritional concern, and one that consumers either purchase more avidly or remember more vividly than the traditional high vitamin/mineral claim, checked off by 6% of grocery shoppers. Obviously, this strong level of consumer interest this is a plus for the RTD beverage market. [Figure 2-3]

Functional Water: Like Water, Only Better

T raditional bottled water did not weather the recession unscathed, but another type of water beverage has taken off despite the economic conditions. Functional water gives consumers a reason to buy water again, providing benefits that they can't get out of the tap. While many functional waters provide flavor enhancement, their main value-added benefit is health-oriented. The segment is characterized by the addition of strategic ingredients or claims of nutraceutical benefits. Varieties include vitamin additives, energy boosters or calming ingredients. Although there are plenty of "enhanced" waters and"infused" waters available, Packaged Facts defines this segment as bottled water products that are marketed on the basis of some added health benefit or promise a "function" beyond simple hydration or flavor. Functional waters are typically lighter alternatives to products in the energy or sports beverage segments, although they may contain similar ingredients.

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Packaged Facts “Snack Foods in the U.S., 4th Edition” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/16/2011 -- U.S. retail sales of packaged snacks rose to nearly $64 billion in 2010, and Packaged Facts projects sales to approach $77 billion by 2015, a total market increase of over 20%.

Despite the lingering effects of global recession, American consumers are snacking more than ever, thanks to less frequent restaurant dining, frenzied lifestyles that encourage on-the-go eating, and a growing tendency to replace meals with several smaller snacks. Additionally, marketers have responded to concerns about the growing impact of obesity on the health of the nation, and have made great strides in developing healthier snack foods that still taste good. While value is still one of the primary drivers of snack purchases, the economy has recovered to an extent that consumers are once again making health, convenience, and even indulgence top priorities as well.

This fully updated Packaged Facts report examines the market for packaged sweet and salty snacks within the context of broader food industry trends in new product development and marketing. To accommodate the complexities of the U.S. market within shifting socioeconomic contexts, the report investigates not only the sales data, new product introductions and market positioning strategies, but also the lifestyle patterns that contribute to the rise and fall of snacking trends. This completely revised edition provides an omnibus approach to the market, examining snacks via two broad classifications, sweet and salty/savory, while providing greater detail for dozens of categories and segments in which market activity dictates closer inspection.

A new feature of this study is data from Packaged Facts' new Food Shopper Insights Survey, conducted in March 2011. Gauging the shopping patterns and attitudes of adults who have shopped for groceries within 24 hours of being surveyed, these data paint a detailed picture of U.S. snack trends by broader consumer health goals and nutrition concerns, ingredient concerns such as low-sugar and gluten-free, purchase motivators such as "family favorite" and "product looked appetizing," snack occasions and timing (e.g., "between meals," weekday vs, weekend, at home vs away from home), brand loyalty by product type, store-brand appeal, and coupon usage. Additional data sources include multi-year Experian Simmons Market Research Bureau data, which provides a detailed look at category-level and brand penetration levels; InfoScan Review data, which quantifies marketer and brand shares across numerous product categories; and new product tracking data from Product Launch Analytics, a Datamonitor service. In addition, category-specific marketer and brand focus discussions help to define the relationship between consumer attitudes and product development.

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Packaged Facts “Underbanked and Unbanked Consumers in the U.S.: Successfully Targeting Consumers of Alternative Financial Services” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/10/2011 -- Underbanked and Unbanked Consumers in the U.S. provides market size, industry and product revenue forecasts and analyzes the legislative and regulatory challenges driving the growth of alternative financial services (AFS). Increasingly, these products are seen as a viable alternative to banks by the 26% of U.S. households that are underbanked or unbanked.

This report analyzes the retail financial services activities and the macro and micro economic trends that have resulted in the percentage of households that are unbanked to rise for the first time since the Federal government began tracking consumer banking relationships. It also provides detailed demographic portraits of both underbanked and unbanked consumers while diving deeply into their financial behaviors and consumer psychographics. These consumers, buffeted by both the economy and the profit maximization strategies of retail banks, have been prime targets of non-traditional financial services providers offering transparent pricing, convenient retail locations and bespoke products that can be used according to the consumers' needs and preferences.

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The report examines the efforts of banks and non-banks to market to underbanked and unbanked consumers and provides analysis of AFS pure-play and retailer product introductions, feature enhancements and pricing strategies.

The report also delves deeply into AFS initiatives in international markets and focuses on the technologies, new products, marketing and branch-level strategies realizing success abroad and transforming vendors and institutions into must-knowns to U.S. bank executives, AFS strategists and industry regulators.

Underbanked and Unbanked Consumers in the U.S. presents historical data and 5-year revenue forecasts for the alternative financial services market and each major AFS product: Prepaid cards, remittances, money orders, check cashing and payday lending. We anticipate those revenues increasing from $338 billion in 2010 to $520 billion in 2015.

About the Author- Elizabeth Rowe
Elizabeth Rowe was the Group Director of Banking Advisory Services at Mercator Advisory Group, a banking and payments consultancy. Previously, she was the senior banking consultant at Guideline, Inc., a consultancy/business advisory firm. For the past 17 years, she has worked with the nation's largest banks, retailers and solutions providers as they assess emerging consumer, technological, regulatory and competitive challenges, trends and opportunities. She has taught at the ABA School of Bank Card Management and frequently speaks at industry, federal regulator and client conferences. She has been widely quoted in the financial press including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Forbes, Independent Banker and CNN.

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Packaged Facts “Trends in U.S. Foodservice Contracting” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/09/2011 -- Unlike restaurants and food retailers, foodservice contractors may not be household names, but they participate in one of the most successful areas of the food and foodservice industry. As detailed in Packaged Facts' Trends in U.S. Foodservice Contracting, we believe its future is bright, forecasting enviable growth in education, healthcare, military, and sports and recreation markets, with more significant challenges ahead for the business and industry segment.

Trends in U.S. Foodservice Contracting provides insight on opportunities for contractors providing food services to commercial, non-commercial and government locations. We provide in-depth segment analysis for six key market verticals, including market size and forecasting, innovation leadership case studies, and opportunity analysis.

The report also includes thorough competitive analyses of the four major foodservice contracting players: Aramark Corp, Sodexo Inc., Compass Group PLC, and Delaware North Companies.

Each profile analyzes foodservice strategies and innovations, as well as sales trends, by market segment. The report also includes profiles of growing mid-size firms such as Guckenheimer Enterprises, Inc. Guest Services, Inc. Centerplate, and Thompson Hospitality.

While certain aspects of foodservice are common to each market vertical, each presents unique differences and challenges.

• We view K-12 foodservice contracting trend momentum as positive, as foodservice contractors can leverage the need for money-losing school districts to provide meal service options that adapt to sweeping health and nutrition-driven regulatory changes. Balancing nutritional requirements with boosting breakfast and lunch participation.

• Momentum in college & university foodservice contracting is also positive, driven by a mixture of solid fundamental growth metrics and contractor innovation in addressing student needs and expectations. To leverage opportunity, foodservice contractors should focus on providing students with flexibility, variety and convenience; healthful and sustainable options; and refashioned dining halls fit for the 21st century.

• Healthcare foodservice contracting trend momentum is also positive, as healthcare continues to grow revenue and employment while serving an aging population more apt to use its services. While opposition among some members of the hospital foodservice community is strong, we believe contract relationships built on serving the patient while controlling costs will grow solidly. Foodservice contractors should target the following key areas for innovation: wellness and nutrition (from targeted menu planning, to rebranding healthy restaurant concepts,) customer service, individualized care and room service; and grab-and-go options.

• Corporate foodservice contracting trend momentum is negative. For Business and Industry foodservice contractors, reliance on larger companies and declining usage provide significant obstacles to growth. However, solutions abound, from catering to smaller sites to targeting by generation to tapping into wellness. This report frames these "solutions" with rationales and examples.

• Military foodservice contractors are on the cusp of significant growth, as the federal government seeks to increase efficiencies and consolidate contracts. This report analyzes the evolving foodservice contracting relationships and opportunities with the Armed Forces, framed against "trend applications" we believe are important to growing military foodservice sales.

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Packaged Facts “Natural and Organic Foods and Beverages in the U.S., 3rd Edition” is now available at ReportsnReports.com.

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/08/2011 -- U.S. retail sales of natural and organic foods and beverages rose to nearly $39 billion in 2010, an increase of 9% over the previous year's sales of $35 billion, far outpacing growth in conventional groceries, which crept ahead less than 2%. Despite the continued sluggish economic recovery, Packaged Facts projects sales to more than double by 2015, to exceed $78 billion. Growth will be jump-started in 2011, in great part due to snack king Frito-Lay's switching half its snack portfolio to all-natural formulations. In addition, attracted by the higher growth rates of natural/organic foods and beverages and in response to consumer demand, other major consumer product companies are becoming more deeply committed to natural and organic products, either through acquisition or internal development. Such deep-pocketed marketers are in a good position to fast-track their products into retail stores and onto consumer tables via their massive product development capabilities, far-reaching distribution networks, and huge advertising and marketing budgets.

This completely revised report, Natural and Organic Foods and Beverages in the U.S., 3rd Edition, examines sales and growth potential, identifying key issues and trends that will affect the marketplace through 2015. Extensive analysis via both proprietary primary data from Packaged Facts' February 2011 Online Consumer Survey and via Experian Simmons' national consumer panel data gauges consumer attitudes and behaviors toward natural/organic foods and beverages, retail shopping patterns, and media usage and preferences, both traditional and social. Also included is comprehensive coverage of new product trends across dozens of categories, drawing on new product data from Datamonitor's Product Launch Analytics database; dozens of images of products and print ads; and profiles of trend-making marketers and retailers. Interviews with industry experts round out this forward-looking market analysis, along with the context of the broader social, economic and psychographic drivers of consumer behavior and shopping preferences.

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