What we offer
Meet future demand
Understand how consumer behaviour, values and lifestyles are impacting the food and drink industry to develop the products that meet future consumer demand.
Differentiate and delight
We provide the context, analysis and actionable insights to help you identify white space opportunities to enable your brand to lead and stay ahead.
Stay ahead of the changing retail landscape
Seize new market opportunities and accurately trade products in-store and online with emerging trends that will have a significant impact on the Food & Drink industry.
Essential future forecasts
We connect evolving consumer behaviours and lifestyles to emerging global trends, providing you with the strategic foresight you need – two to 10 years out – to support your innovation timeline.
Product direction
Explore how our predicted macro forecasts, consumer emotions and lifestyle shifts translate into category-specific forecasts that support your product development and innovation strategy. Our 200+ trend forecasts are grounded in our STEPIC™ annual macro forecasts, showing you how these trends will influence ingredients, packaging and flavours across product categories.
TrendCurve
Our WGSN TrendCurve forecasts use proprietary data sources, machine learning technology and analytics interpreted by our strategists to track trend growth through four stages of adoption to showcase how a trend is rising and what the biggest areas of opportunity are around it.
Trade show coverage
Get the latest trends, themes, innovations, brands and disruptors from the world’s most important trade shows in the food, drink and packaging industries to support your product development, buying and packaging design.
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Every team gets better with WGSN
Our forecasts support better decision-making across departments, enhancing efficiency and driving commercial success. No matter which team you’re in, we provide actionable insights that address both business goals and consumer needs.
Innovation & Strategy
Drawing on WGSN’s multi-industry ecosystem, our long-range trend forecasting connects the dots in emerging trends to identify white space opportunities for Food & Drink innovation, enabling the creation of new products that tomorrow’s consumers will buy.
Product Development & Packaging
Identify the biggest areas of opportunity for new product development, with specific actionable insights and implications across categories.
Product & Category
Identify rising trends that can be applied to multiple categories so you can build an NPD pipeline that works across the business.
Marketing & Brand
Know how and where to launch products effectively through our in-depth coverage of consumer and platform updates with both a global and local focus.