Kerry is going beyond flavor to build an authentic future for taste. In that journey, the company explored the taste trends that will energize the local and global marketplace in 2019.
BELOIT, Wis. (January 16, 2018) — Kerry, the Taste and Nutrition Company, released today its 2019 Global Taste Charts, highlighting what will drive trends across the world, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, South Cone, Central America and APMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa). The 2019 Taste Charts represent the company’s annual review of the food and beverage landscape utilizing sales performance, consumer trends, foodservice influences and internal culinary and mixology expertise to predict tastes for the coming year.
Kerry’s predictions forecast that 2019 will bring further specificity to the origin of flavors and ingredients as consumers seek tastes that delight, surprise and excite them. As a leader in taste, Kerry is on a constant quest to discover and translate the best taste experiences from nature’s high-quality ingredients.
“To help our customers capitalize on trends and grow their business, we have developed our 2019 Taste Charts, representing all regions of the world,” says Andy Royston, Chief Marketing Officer for Kerry Global. “As trends shift in the marketplace, our customers can turn to Kerry’s Taste Charts as a guide to develop their next generation of tastes that will excite their consumers and meet growing demand for on-trend, innovative, taste experiences that go beyond flavor. Kerry partners with our customers to create authentic taste and nutrition solutions that consumers prefer.”
Customers can leverage Kerry’s unqiue expertise as a food and beverage company with a built-in flavor house to create differentiated products with the tastes consumers seek. Through their global teams and end-to-end expertise, Kerry has created the 2019 Taste Charts, which provide the industry with a proprietary view into the flavors and ingredients shaping the taste market across sweet, beverage and savory categories.
The Taste Charts are available for download HERE.
About Kerry
As consumers demand a return to real food and beverage products, Kerry is responding with better, more authentic and nutritious taste experiences. We bring to the table our strong food heritage with 40 years of experience, global insights, marketplace knowledge, culinary and applications expertise and unique solutions that meet consumers’ needs. Kerry began as a dairy cooperative in Ireland, committed to producing real and wholesome ingredients. As we’ve grown, we continue to provide solutions that satisfy a fundamental need: to eat, to eat well and to be healthy. Kerry’s focus on Taste & Nutrition combines our multi-sensory aroma and texture experience with in-depth knowledge of people, life stage and daily nutritional needs. By partnering with Kerry, customers are taken on a journey to make food, beverage and pharma products that people enjoy and feel better about. We call this Leading to Better.
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