Top Themes in Consumer, Packaging, and Foodservice 2026: Strategic Intelligence
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This report identifies the top 10 themes that will impact consumer, packaging, and foodservice industries in 2026. These 10 themes have been classified into four categories: pure technology themes, industry themes, ESG themes, and macroeconomic themes. Our research shows that companies who invest in the right themes become success stories; those who miss the big themes impacting their industry will fail. Given that so many themes are disruptive, it is easy to be blindsided by industry outsiders invading your sector.
The top themes in consumer goods, foodservice, and packaging industries identified for 2026 are cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, easy and affordable, geopolitics, health and wellness, individualism and expression, regulation, ESG, clean label, and supply chain management.
Scope
This report outlines the top 10 themes that will impact consumer, packaging, and foodservice industries in 2026.
For each theme, we offer a definition of the theme, a set of trends and opportunities, and challenges and considerations.
At GlobalData, we track all themes impacting all companies across all sectors. Understanding the themes set out in this report will help brands outperform their peers in 2026.
Key Highlights
- AI will play a crucial role in 2024 and beyond in underpinning and improving other important technologies.
- Consumer industries are still behind where they need to be in terms of investment in more sophisticated cybersecurity infrastructure.
- Macroeconomic uncertainty will prevail in 2024 so digitized, more efficient supply chains will still be a must across all consumer industries.
- In 2024 there is a sense that we are moving towards the so-called ESG 2.0, which industries will be obliged to take part in.
Reasons to Buy
The report helps identify and understand the most influential themes for 2026.
The analysis ranks the most disruptive themes in order of importance, with cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and easy and affordable as the top three themes.
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