Specialty Food Association Trendspotter Panel forecasts top 2023 specialty food trends

Trends include convenience, environmentally friendly foods, and more.

October 28, 2022

From environmentally friendly foods to alt seafood and everything in between, the Specialty Food Association (SFA) Trendspotter Panel has predicted what will be hot in specialty food for 2023.

Specialty food sales reached $158.4B in 2019

Cheese, meat and baked goods among the categories seeing the highest sales.

July 6, 2020

The SFA and Mintel recently released the 2020-2021 Edition of The State of the Specialty Food Industry report, which explores the market and where it is going based on sales data from the past three calendar years.

Report: Specialty food pulled in $140.3 billion in 2017

Category grew by 12.9 percent between 2015-2017.

Christian Metzger

July 10, 2018

Specialty foods remains one of the fastest-growing sectors in the food industry, a report issued by the Specialty Food Association reveals.

How smaller businesses are capturing more snack and bakery sales

Douglas J. Peckenpaugh

April 18, 2017

Todd Southerland, senior vice president and food & agribusiness industry manager at SunTrust Bank looks at strategies smaller food companies are using to capture more of the market.

Specialty Food Association launches ad campaign, retail test for specialty food brand

Specialty Food. Craft. Care. Joy. will launch in New York City.

Alison Soley

June 22, 2015

There’s a new appetite for specialty food — a $100 billion one, in fact.

Chocolate most popular specialty food

Study: More consumers indulge in specialty food, especially chocolate.

Kelsey Ott

September 26, 2014

Shoppers choose to purchase chocolate more than any other specialty food item, according to new research from the Specialty Food Association.

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