Content related to the topic: consumer-insight

29 March 2021

Understanding the lamb consumer and evolving eating habits

Lamb has faced long term volumes challenges linked to pressure from evolving consumer needs and tastes alongside the higher price point of lamb.

7 March 2025

Strong retail performance for meat and dairy during Valentine’s 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic did not stop us celebrating Valentine's Day, with total Valentine's food and drink sales up £85m compared to 2020.

7 December 2021

We Eat Balanced drives positive rethink of red meat and dairy for consumers

Consumers are rethinking their attitudes towards red meat and dairy produced in Britain as the result of AHDB’s ground-breaking We Eat Balanced campaign launched earlier this year

15 March 2021

A nation of cheese lovers

Cheddar remains the 'big cheese' in British homes, but throughout 2020 speciality and continental cheese have seen a large uptake.

8 April 2021

Budget 2021: What are the key themes affecting agriculture?

How does the Budget 2021 affect agriculture?

4 March 2021

Strong January performance for red meat and dairy

Meat and dairy performed well in January through retail, continuing the positive performance from Christmas.

4 February 2025

Food-to-go needs evolve due to pandemic

Despite food-to-go's more buoyant performance during COVID-19 it is predicted that this part of the market will be one of the slowest to recover to its pre-COVID high

3 March 2021

Post-COVID opportunities for the eating out market

We look at dine-in trends that have accelerated during the pandemic and are likely to continue when normality resumes

2 January 2025

Beef and dairy winners this Christmas

Red meat volumes grew faster than turkey and whole fish this Christmas. Cheese volumes were up 17% in December.

1 February 2021

Shoppers back British farmers says new AHDB report

During a challenging year and against a backdrop of major change for industry, consumer attitudes towards UK farmers has grown in positivity.

2 February 2021

Butchers outperform the market this Christmas

Butchers had their best ever Christmas, with meat and poultry sales up £8.5m in December. This marks the end to a very strong year for independent butchers.

26 January 2021

Younger consumers become more price conscious

Since the beginning of the Pandemic in March, 1 in 3 Brits claim to have experienced a change to their employment status. How may this have impacted consumer shopping habits?