Rapidly ageing populations present both a socio-economic challenge and a business opportunity. As wellness narratives shift from lifespan to healthspan, priorities centre on early-stage prevention, optimising healthy years, and enabling active ageing in later life. Creating value, improving health outcomes, and driving business growth requires targeted consumer segmentation aligned with a broad spectrum of longevity-led solutions and a holistic ecosystem of life-stage needs.

Consumers no longer assess brands by price alone but by a shifting matrix of priorities – from health and convenience to sustainability and digital experience. As disruptors – including new platforms and non-traditional players – move faster and intensify competition, companies across industries must recalibrate their value strategies to maintain relevance, defend market share, and capture new growth opportunities.

GLP-1 usage is going to rise considerably across the world in the coming years, confronting food and beverages with both challenges and opportunities. The pressure on volumes is going to be considerable, but changing needs of GLP-1 users will at the same time boost demand in many categories.

This report identifies key long-term megatrends shaping consumer behaviour in Latin America. Technological advancements and wider internet access drive digital living, offering solutions to regional challenges. Better access to financial services fuels e-commerce and s-commerce growth. Inflation and changing household dynamics are driving consumers to focus on saving time and money, while also prioritising their overall wellbeing in the face of economic and geopolitical uncertainty.

Amid elevated prices and a stronger consumer focus on affordability, a more value favourable retail environment is driving the growth of private label packaged foods across Latin America. Retailers are expanding assortments, better understanding consumer needs, and partnering with quality suppliers. This report explores how private label manufacturers and retailers are competing in this evolving market, focusing on key categories, regional trends, and strategic marketing initiatives.

Significant shifts in US policies on tariffs, taxation, spending, regulation, migration, AI/tech, and energy are expected to impact the global economy and key industries like food and drinks, health and beauty, home and tech, travel, and automotive. Trump's policies can undermine global economic growth, affect consumer sentiment, risk higher prices, and disrupt production and distribution network. However, some opportunities will arise as the global supply chain rewires and consumers adapt.

Consumers increasingly look to their food and drinks as a key to a healthier life. The lines between food and drinks and consumer health are consequently blurring. Interest for appetite control will spur new consumption occasions for GLP-1 ‘companion foods’ and mimickers, whilst gut health propels pre- and postbiotics further. Optimising cognition and mood, including all at once for reaching the ‘flow state’, is a mouth-watering promise for soft drinks players.

Consumers continue to be more mindful of their snack purchases - leveraging different channels, categories, and brands to find a fitting deal. And as manufacturers rise to deliver more quality affordable offerings, a great deal of market volatilities (eg tariffs, regulations) create challenges that are best tackled with long-term, positively impactful investments. A greater degree of flexibility, consumer centricity and relentless rooting in value remain crucial to sustain a path of growth.

By 2029, Asia Pacific will host 56% of the global population aged 65+, representing a trillion-dollar opportunity. This report provides a critical framework to understand, develop and address the unmet needs of this rapidly growing demographic. Leveraging Euromonitor's Inclusivity - Empowerment - Indulgence framework, companies that act now will secure future growth and maintain relevance in a shifting consumer landscape.

Digital Living, Convenience, Pursuit of Value and Sustainable Living are key megatrends in Western Europe, shaped by technological advancements, demographic changes and shifting consumer values. Demand for multifunctional products is driving brands to simplify and optimise. Despite privacy concerns, AI-driven personalisation is gaining acceptance. Value perceptions are shifting toward functionality and affordability, while sustainability continues to influence purchasing choices.

Inhalation - one of the most common modes of consumption globally - is undergoing a rapid transformation. This report assesses the significant risks for those companies who fail to address that change and the huge opportunities for those who can leverage science, technology and new substance frontiers to reimagine inhalation’s role in future societies.

Product sales with health & wellness claims have seen a slow down in sales after a surge over 2020-2022. Heightened demand for healthier choices has subsided, however, more stable growth is expected in the forecast period. While cost-of-living crisis has consumers rethinking their shopping habits and focusing only on essential, there is still demand for foods and drinks with health & wellness claims, especially those connected to restrictive diets, allergies, sensitivities, fitness or health.

As investment and attention shifts towards GenAI, companies of all types must evaluate potential opportunities associated with this technology. Given its ability to go a step further than AI to create something new, it is viewed as being incredibly powerful. This report explores opportunities and challenges across common use cases such as marketing, product development, the customer journey, customer service and the supply chain.

With one billion more people globally by 2040 and growing sustainability challenges, diversification in food ingredients has become key. Food businesses need to address deepening nutritional imbalances with more varied, nutrient-dense, plant-based ingredients, and deliver gut-organ health benefits. Upstream, more local, climate-smart crops and food bioengineering must be sought, while working with policymakers. The future is less about meat, corn or cocoa and more about millets, fungi and algae.

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

Following years of challenges inhibiting launch activity, due to stockouts, SKU rationalisations and product framework optimisations, manufacturers are now ambitious about providing value to consumers through healthier, more sensorial, and culturally inclusive products. Leveraging the power of marketing, new occasions and promotions, brands and private label alike are intent on launching new products that align more closely to consumer values.

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa

The health and wellness industry continues to gain greater significance overall, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, as consumers have become more cognisant of the negative impact of processed food and a range of drinks on their health and wellbeing. The virus disproportionately affected those with underlying health conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, making people more conscious of the need to take care of their health and boost their overall immunity. As a result, people are increa