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Welcome to the latest update from GNPD. This month we have an exciting opportunity for you - either book a meeting with us to see you at your offices OR book a meeting with us at the Food Ingredients Europe show in Paris at the end of November and you will gain free access to trends. You could choose to listen to our latest 30 min webinar on How Packaging Influences Trends, presented by our two Directors of Consulting Services, David Jago and Lynn Dornblaser. Or if you are at FI Europe, on completion of the meeting you will be invited to attend one of the live onsite presentations (Health & Wellness in Asia, Natural & Organic product trends, Flavour Trends) that David and Lynn will be running during the three days as well as one of the extremely popular tasting sessions.
Why not have a look at what GNPD is like nowadays? You can watch this 8 minute demo of the exciting new functionality. Redeveloped in May 2005 and constantly having new functionality added, it is a premier system we are proud of. The new graphing system allows so much more flexibility enabling you to map trends from around the world.
What about new product brainstorming? Our 500k1 consultancy helps clients brainstorm, screen and concept test their ideas.
How do you spot true Innovation? Our Premier Innovations Club sends members 10 of the most exciting innovations each month and gives detailed Innovation analysis on each item giving a real insight into key innovation trends and products from around the world.
Do you want to know the success of a product? Do you want to know if a product is still on shelf?...Our new service Track-IT enables users to do just that. We send our shoppers back into stores to see if products picked up previously are still on shelf.
Please contact me if you do have any questions about GNPD and I will be happy to answer them.
Many thanks
Alistair Vince
GNPD Product Director
avince@mintel.com
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| Food Ingredients Europe |
Mintel's GNPD is excited to be teaming up with Fi Europe to offer all show visitors the chance to learn about the latest ingredient trends and innovations.
"Mintel's Taste of Innovation" is a series of 20 minute presentations, from Lynn Dornblaser and David Jago taking place throughout the Fi Europe show in Paris.
Each presentation will be followed by a unique tasting experience. You'll learn about new product introductions around the world, different launch patterns and how these products are shaping new trends.
Presentations will be commence at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm each day (29th Nov, 30th Nov, 1st Dec) and will be on Natural & Organic Ingredient Trends, Health & Wellness Trends in Asia and Global Flavour Trends.
To reserve your place at one of these sessions please email avince@mintel.com.
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| GNPD Track-IT |
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Have you ever seen an interesting new product on GNPD and wished you could track its progress within the retail environment?
GNPD's Track-it service allows you to do just that!
Find out more...
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Global experts pick international superstars among the newest F&B product launches
Mintel's Global New Products Database (GNPD), which tracks new food product introductions globally, has the verdict on this year's .best bet' products.
GNPD assembled hundreds of food innovators and industry experts to cast their votes for the world's most innovative food and beverage (F&B) products at the recent IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) Food Expo 2005.
Read the full article at Retail Asia Online
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| FaraPack Briefing 2005 |
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Mintel's David Jago will be speaking at this years Farapack Briefing (12th-13th October 2005), offering insight into the latest packaging trends and highlighting new and innovative products from around the world.
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GNPD Highlights
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Those that think they have seen it all on pasta flavours, would better think again. Chocolate pasta seems to be the latest in terms of flavour innovation in this market. Die Kleine Nudelwelt's chocolate ribbon pasta is made from semolina, sugar and cocoa and needs to be boiled just like traditional pasta.
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Véto-Centre in France appears to have cornered the market for pet medication with a new product for cats and dogs claimed to help stop lactation in phantom pregnancies.
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The link between chocolate confectionery and bakery products is now well established, with a number of chocolate branded biscuits and cakes (e.g. Mars Bisc/Cookies & range, Cadbury Dream cakes and Hershey's Reese's Cookies). The choclate brands now appear to be moving further into bakery segments. For example, the latest Mars bakery product has appeared in the croissants segment with the Austrian introduction of Milky Way croissants based on the countline. The new croissants have a Milky Way milk chocolate and cream filling.
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Food and drink products for humans featuring ingredients with cosmetic properties may be growing in prevalence with every passing year, but what about our pets? Indeed, there have been examples of pet foods enriched with functional ingredients to help slow the signs of ageing, but few have included the ever popular anti-ageing coenzyme Q10.
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UK company HP Foods has upgraded its traditional HP Sauce for London's Harrods department store in Knightsbridge for a limited time only. Throughout this month the sauce will be available in bottles designed by UK designer Paul Smith to celebrate the Harrods Truly British Season September 2005. Essentially, the sauce is the same as usual, with differentiation arising from the new, striped brown label, a trademark of the designer. Only 1899 bottles will be available, each packaged in a material-lined box with gold lettering and a certificate of authentication.
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It is a well known fact that 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away', and in the Philippines, HDR Foods has introduced a product based on that conception. Mother's Best Apple Ketchup is flagged on the front of the pack 'contains flavonoids', while on the back of the pack consumers are informed that flavonoids prevent: heart disease, tooth decay, high cholesterol, brain disease (Alzheimer's), type 2 diabetes, asthma, and breast and prostate cancer.
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Some restaurants offer consumers fried ice cream for dessert, but, until now, there was no easy way to prepare this original dessert at home. In the Philippines, Diso Food Concepts introduced Ersao Fried Ice Cream, frozen ice cream bites covered in a hot & crispy crust.
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In recent years we have witnessed a decline in sales of harsh, abrasive toothpaste products (which can damage tooth enamel), in favour of alternative products containing natural ingredients. The latest example of this increasing trend is Mind Up's Kaiteki Kai grape toothpaste, launched in Japan, that contains grape leaf and seed extracts, but no synthetic surfactants.
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Make-up palettes provide value, fun and convenience in one practical product. The designers do the work for you, choosing the best of their products and colours to create a totally co-ordinated look, usually at lower cost than if you purchased each part individually. Already one of the most coveted compacts for Autumn 2005 is Lancôme.s chic palette for eyes and cheeks. Le Carnet de Velours is a slim, passport-sized compact clad in black suede, secured by two leather straps tipped with metal squares, featuring the Lancôme rose trademark.
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Sony CP Laboratories has launched Mikanchan, a new range of skincare products packaged in small cases replicating life-size satsuma oranges, in Japan. Interestingly, this pack theme appears to have been used to relate to the ingredient citrus unshu peel, otherwise known as satsuma peel. Following on the same vein as beer-enriched shampoos in beer bottles and bath milks in milk cartons, this concept adds an element of fun into the personal care sector.
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