{"id":6855,"date":"2015-02-03T16:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:01:27","slug":"acosta-sales-and-marketing-reports-on-meat-sales-predictions-and-latino-shopping-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/03\/acosta-sales-and-marketing-reports-on-meat-sales-predictions-and-latino-shopping-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"ACOSTA SALES AND MARKETING REPORTS ON MEAT SALES PREDICTIONS AND LATINO SHOPPING HABITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEAT SALES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Acosta Sales and Marketing, the U.S.D.A. predicts that red<br \/>\nmeat will drop one percent in per capita consumption between 2014 and<br \/>\n2015, with broiler chicken consumption expected to increase 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>In their survey, Acosta found that sixty-eight percent of shoppers who<br \/>\nare buying less meat cite cost as the primary reason, followed by health<br \/>\nand wellness at 39%. More than 31% of all shoppers and fifty percent of<br \/>\n18-34 year olds indicated that they purchased meat alternatives over the<br \/>\npast year. Twenty one percent of all U.S. shopper purchased tofu,<br \/>\ntwelve percent textured vegetable protein, ten percent tempeh, eight<br \/>\npercent quorn, and six percent seitan.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons given that influenced those to consider a vegan, vegetarian, or<br \/>\nflexitarian diet were:<\/p>\n<p>61% personal health concerns<br \/>\n45% cost<br \/>\n41% GMO, preservatives, animal diseases, etc.<br \/>\n33% environmental impacts of meat products<br \/>\n32% curiosity<br \/>\n21% personal or ethical beliefs<\/p>\n<p>Sixty percent of 18-34 year olds said you could achieve the necessary<br \/>\ndaily amount of protein without meat. Fifty percent of 50-64 year olds<br \/>\nindicated the same.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta is an outsourced sales and marketing agency serving consumer<br \/>\npackaged goods companies and retailers across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATINO SHOPPING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an Acosta Sales and Marketing Survey, 47% of Hispanics say<br \/>\nthey eat healthy foods even though it\u2019s more expensive, while 40% of<br \/>\nU.S. shoppers in general will buy the more expensive healthy item.<br \/>\nIn describing their shopping habits, buying organic\/natural products was<br \/>\nanswered by 20% of total U.S. Shoppers, while this answer was given<br \/>\nby 26% of U.S. Hispanic shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta is an outsourced sales and marketing agency serving consumer<br \/>\npackaged goods companies and retailers across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For more poll and survey information from The Vegetarian Resource Group,<br \/>\nsee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEAT SALES According to Acosta Sales and Marketing, the U.S.D.A. predicts that red meat will drop one percent in per capita consumption between 2014 and 2015, with broiler chicken consumption expected to increase 1.6%. In their survey, Acosta found that sixty-eight percent of shoppers who are buying less meat cite cost as the primary reason, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}