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Unlocking Innovation in Vitamins and Dietary Supplements with Premium Health Claim Combinations
18 Jun 26As innovation in the US vitamins and dietary supplements market becomes more selective, brands must justify value more clearly at launch. This article examines how health claims and, particularly, claim combinations serve as a key mechanism for communicating that value. Using a large SKU-level dataset, the analysis identifies which combinations are most closely associated with higher pricing, highlighting the growing importance of claim architecture in supporting premium positioning.
Jared Conway
Social Roles as a Product Positioning Strategy: The Case of Balanced Nutrition
29 May 26Most claim strategy is trendspotting and activation. Brands scan the cultural landscape for what consumers are currently anxious about or aspiring towards and build claims around that signal. Clean label, gut health, immune support, stress relief; each of these has had its moment, and each has faded or been diluted as the cultural mood shifted and the category filled with me-too competitors. The underlying logic is demographic and attitudinal: find a segment, find their current focus or fear, match your claim to it. There is a more durable, sticky alternative. Alongside following trends, we should follow roles.
Miri Eliyahu
Lessons From Past Global Crises for the Iran War
27 Apr 26As the Iran war brings economic disruption to global consumer markets, Euromonitor looks back at previous crises – the 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine to understand how each of these crises changed consumer markets.
Camilla Butler
Beauty Offers Health Supplement Companies a Route to Faster Growth
23 Mar 26As consumers strongly link being attractive with appearing healthy, beauty-positioned supplements surpass traditional health products in both growth and innovation focus.
Nick Stene
The Diffusion Principle: How Nootropic Claims Are Crossing Industry Boundaries
29 Jan 26Success in claim innovation isn't measured solely by volume, but also by reach. When a functional claim established in one industry migrates across category boundaries, you know it has transcended niche status to become a general consumer expectation. Nootropic claims are doing this, and the diffusion pattern shows something important about how health and wellness trends achieve mainstream traction.
Miri Eliyahu
Top Trends Shaping Consumer Health into 2026
15 Dec 25Consumer health today has many attractive growth opportunities. Behavioural shifts and evolving wellness goals are rewriting the rules, fuelling demand for protein among women, deepening health and beauty connections, and sparking a race for longevity. In fact, 2025 marked a tipping point: women have surpassed men in seeking added protein, visibly reshaping brand strategies and competitive dynamics. These changes are driving new trends, which will set the 2026 agenda.
Nick Stene