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  • Food Buying Habits - How, When, and Why Did It All Change?

    Food shopping habits have changed. Consumers are changing where they shop, how they shop, and what they buy. Morrisons, home of low prices, and Waitrose at the premium end of the scale, both published half year results a couple of days ago. Morrisons grew like for like sales by 7.6%, (like for like meaning...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Sep 12 2008

  • A Shift to Thrift - Organic Sales Well Down, Red Meat Not Far Behind

    Whether its Gordon Brown telling us not to waste food, a general belt tightening in an effort to pay the bills, or more questioning of the value of what we buy, there is a definite change in consumer buying habits. A well publicised example of the shift to thrift comes in the shape of Tesco's decision...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Aug 11 2008

  • Organic Market Outlook

    The media's fascination with the organics market continues but this time with the focus on how it is faring during the credit crunch. The question of how a sector which is still less than two percent of total food sales can command so many column inches will be tackled another day. The more pressing...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Jun 24 2008

  • Grass Fed Cows - A Market Opportunity?

    Today's headlines announce that a recent study has found organic milk to be healthier than conventionally produced. Dig a bit deeper and we find that's not what the study found at all. The study was carried out by Newcastle University, and published yesterday in the Journal of the Science of...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, May 28 2008

  • Ethical Purchasing and the Credit Crunch... Continued

    Concern about whether the credit crunch will bring ethical purchasing to a halt seems to be exercising many minds. The latest to publish a survey is The Times newspaper. In answer to the question "In the next year are you likely to .....", the 1000 people surveyed replied as follows: Buy more...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Apr 7 2008

  • Milk Market Trends 2007

    Milk market data for 2007 has landed in the in tray, courtesy of the Milk Development Council (MDC Datum). Many of the trends are as expected. Pasteurised liquid milk sales grew by 2% to 4.1bn litres despite a 9% price rise, confirming industry views that consumers are either not aware of the price of...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 12 2008

  • Whither Ethical Purchasing - Update

    Last week's post about ethical purchasing ended with my view that strong brands with a clear message are needed to help consumers navigate their way through an increasingly complicated set of ethical purchase decisions. Free range, Fairtrade and British were cited as examples of good brands. Organic...
    Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Mar 10 2008
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