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7 Outstanding Companies in Functional & Health-Enhancing Foods


Description: Our latest report, 7 Outstanding Companies in Functional & Health-Enhancing Foods provides insights into the strategies of the most outstanding companies in the field of food and health – insights that anyone can apply to their own business.

The seven featured in this report were chosen because they met these three criteria:

- strategies in nutrition and health are the most advanced and the most successful
- strategies that best illustrate the future direction of functional foods
- companies from whom the most can be learnt about how to be successful in the business of food and health

Our selection includes some large companies with diverse portfolios (Danone, Unilever, PepsiCo) as well as very focused companies (Yakult and Pom Wonderful) and an entrepreneurial startup (Innocent). Common to all these companies, despite their very different starting points, is a demonstration of how to be successful in food and health.

The seven companies are:

1. Danone (global)
2. Unilever (global)
3. PepsiCo (global)
4. Emmi (Switzerland)
5. Yakult Honsha (global)
6. Pom Wonderful (US)
7. Innocent Drinks (Europe)

Anyone aiming to develop a strategy in nutrition and health, whether it involves developing new brands or reinventing old brands, can learn lessons from these companies and gain insights that can be applied in any setting.

The report shows that even businesses with a portfolio of long-established brands whose health credentials are far below what is required in today’s market can successfully refocus themselves on health, provided that management has the vision, the will and the competence.

What the seven companies also have in common is that they are connecting to the most important trends in food and health, which are identified in Mellentin’s 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health 2008

They are:

1. Digestive health – a wellness issue and the biggest opportunity
2. Fruit & superfruit – the future of food and health
3. The marketing power of “naturally healthy”
4. Beauty foods – the newest niche
5. Weight management more about maintaining than losing
6. Mood Food feels its way
7. A tipping point for the premiumisation of health
8. Healthy snacking for the “me generation”
9. Kids’ nutrition – connecting to multiple trends is crucial
10. Are antioxidants the new probiotics?

We show how companies with diverse portfolios have connected to many of these trends (eight or nine of the trends, in the case of Danone, Unilever and PepsiCo) while other companies are connected to a smaller number of trends, but have such deep expertise in these narrower areas that they have achieved leadership that has become unshakeable.

This report also shows that, of the many strategies that companies can adopt, the most successful companies are choosing either:

- marketing intrinsic healthfulness or
- new category creation.

These strategies – the defining strategies of food and health worldwide, which we explain in this report - are not mutually exclusive and, as we show, some companies often have success using both within the same brand.

As the only company in the world dedicated solely to researching the business of food and health we are uniquely able to deliver a wealth of insights and opinions. Plus, our own background in marketing and product development means that we set our analysis in a way that enables companies to connect it to their own strategies.


Contents: Introduction

The 7 companies’ brand strategies

1 Danone: The world’s first health-focused multinational?
Case Study 1: Digestive health: Activia – the world’s No 2 digestive health brand
Case Study 2: Beauty: Essensis – a yoghurt to ‘nourish your skin from the inside’

2 PepsiCo: From soft drinks and salty chips to fruit drinks and healthy snacks
Case Study 3: Healthy snacking: ‘Impossibly good’ Flat Earth soars in first year

3 Unilever: Re-focusing on healthy lifestyles
Case Study 4: Fruit: Knorr Vie – the first daily dose of fruit and veg
Case Study 5: Kids’ nutrition: Amaze – the first specially designed kids’ brain
Food range.......

4 Emmi: Europe’s most innovative small dairy company?
Case Study 6: Beauty: Emmi’s bold plan to beautify Europe

5 Innocent Drinks: A new category creator in Europe
Case Study 7: All natural: Selling the natural functionality of fruit

6 Pom Wonderful: A new category creator in the US

7 Yakult Honsha: A focused strategy in probiotics and digestive health
Case Study 8: Digestive health: The secrets of the original little bottle’s success
Case Study 9: Blood pressure strategy: Blood pressure-lowering pays off for Yakult




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