20. ON TREND : WHOLE FOODS
“ P&G , in one fell swoop, just validated
the entire whole-food supplement category.
— ROBERT CRAVEN, MEGAFOOD
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$800 M in CY 2011 sales
+9.3% annual growth
Setting the tone:
MegaFood
Garden of Life
New Chapter
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21. ON TREND : BRAIN SPACE
America! 10% depressed, 18% anxious in any given year
SOURCE: CDC, NATIONAL INSTIITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
$2,725 per employee in excess health costs
SOURCE: ELEMENTS HEALTH PLANS
$16.4 billion in direct / indirect medical costs
SOURCE: BRAVEWELL COLLABORATIVE
Melatonin +26%, valerian +11%, kava kava +41%
@YoungDrMike SOURCE: NBJ, CY 2011
9/17/11 1:24 PM Condition-specific mood +11%, insomnia +12%
CDC: Half of SOURCE: NBJ, CY 2010
Americans will Actual work hours per worker in CY 2011
suffer from DE 1,413 SOURCE: OECD
mental health UK 1,625
US 1,787
woes
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22. OBSTACLE : DSHEA
IN PURSUIT OF MEDICINE
Pre-market registration system
Pre-market GMP inspection
Pre-market proof of safety
Disease claims driven by science
Exclusivity on claims backed by science
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23. OBSTACLE : FOOD SCIENCE
IT’S A STORY OF VILLAINS & HEROES
rBGH
GMO
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24. ON TREND: FOOD REFORM
FEAR ↔ LOVE
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25. OPPORTUNITY : PROP 37
rBGH
@AnniesCEO
8/23/12 10:40 PM
Yes on 37: We are in
$$, stand up and be
counted CA…
Consumers deserve
truth in labels. Let’s GMO
win this…
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29. The advance of natural products
is one manifestation of
the system in flux.
(We’re unraveling.)
PICK A SOCIAL FABRIC
Politics? TEA PARTY
Wall Street? CROWDFUNDING
Healthcare? INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Education? CYBER CHARTERS
Climate? IT’S REALLY HOT
Food? PROP 37
Middle Class? OCCUPY
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34. Innovation can & will look just as much
like UN-DOING as NEW-DOING.
35. A PROPER CAUSE
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Editor's Notes
That’s Chipotle. Couple million for 6 million hits online & press. We’ll get back to this. Its indicative to me of the many subversions underway across the systems we enjoy, including the food supply.
Thanks to Jeb, Jane & Don Wilkes at Blue Pacific for bringing me here.
This is what we do at NBJ. We size nutrition & figure out why it looks that way – current trends – plus where it’s headed. Here’s where it’s headed. The trend toward natural is serious.
Dive a bit deeper by market.
Science as dividing line. Functional is all about beverages, largely energy through mass. Supplements saw rapid growth around protein categories.
Lots more shading, right? Faster growth for several years now, even in soft economy. Whole Foods, UNFI, Hain are great bellweathers here. Why? Science at arm’s length.
Growth across the board—large trend toward healthier fare—but fastest in natural categories. Roughly 5x conventional peer groups.
7% growth in 2011, strong performance, mid single digits ahead with regulatory concerns we’ll speak to later.
Blue & orange, sports nutrition & meal replacements, protein—the one macronutrient never to get dinged like fats & carbs.
Gut health poised for major breakthroughs beyond probiotic flushes thx to Human Macrobiome Project. Brain space twin pillared around cognitive decline in Boomers & mood dysfunction in Millenials.
8% growth, big rebound driven by energy beverages—not a health product, which concerns me.
Beverages, snacks.
Naturally functional the new paradigm. Superfruits & foods. Junktional has a thick tail, but how long is it?
10+% growth & staying there.
Dairy, meat—animal products. Antibioic fears. Fruits & veggies. Pesticide fears. Snacks. A bridge, full of deal activity from PE & IPO & strategics.
Lifestyle diets present entry into the larger discussion. More folks enter through a door—say gluten free—and expand from that to organic, whole, raw foods.
Young, early, but the next wave after food. 6% growth moving up.
Humanization of pets leads to strong performance. Copacking of topicals & ingestibles for nutribeauty a la India & Europe. Personal care about matching efficacy & feel.
Trends that matter.
Fruits & veggies in a pill. Time has come for longstanding pioneers here. Minimal processing. Dryers. Organic, local sourcing. Seasonal formulations. Even Pfizer’s pretending a bit. $250m deal for New Chapter going to P&G. Expect big broad channel expansion there.
20 million depressed, 40 million anxious. Modern american workstyle unsustainable. Pops in sales across ingredients, conditions This is the next O3 heart health contender, if the products work, even in combination.
Supplements regulated as a food & traditionally taken that way, but DSHEA created free-market opportunity that continues to push supps toward medicine. Quicker durations of efficacy, bolder advertising claims, more specific conditions targeted. If consumers want them to be medicine, how do we create a regulatory environment to promote the science necessary to prove that? Some ideas from July cover story.
Food science is under serious attack. It’s iunclear to me that we really want science in our food. We want it in medicine, in technology, but maybe not food. Natural study—quit poking around. Science can equate to processing. It’s also a narrative in consumer psyche, with heroes & villains.
So food reform flourished. So many movements gaining traction along this spectrum of fear to love. Here’s the big three.
Oh boy. Buckle your seatbelts. Whether or not it passes—and I still believe it will—the communities around food reform—especially orgainc food leadership—have gotten a taste of real, gamechanging change. It’s united them. GM will be labeled & strategic landscape is already set for some of the victors there. Among CPGs, it’s being set now & they will turn away from the category if consumers ask them to turn.
Let’s ladder up.
Tough to follow, but consider the population here & listen to what they want.
Larger theme that informs much of our research right now.
Debunk, unravel, reclaim Connor: “… the unhinged ferris wheel of the free market rolling into the abyss …”