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Ten top features ideas- Credit crunch cooking: Forget cordon bleu. Recipes, advice on how to cut your weekly food shop in half, or how to host a dinner party on a budget.
- The Cheryl Cole effect: Everything this girl touches at the moment seems to turn to gold. How important is celebrity endorsement for the success of food and drink brands? Consider some of the brands that celebs have been snapped enjoying and their impact on the brand’s success/image.
- Giving back: Companies are starting to take corporate social responsibility a lot more seriously these days, as consumers show a greater interest in the morals and ethics behind the brands they buy. Enabling consumers to give back, as well as donating a portion of profits to a relevant cause, are popular strategies to boost a company’s CSR status. What more innovative steps are food and drink brands taking to build a better CSR reputation?
- Detox food and drink: Natural, healthy and tasty products that help to eliminate toxins after a few too many nights on the town.
- The obesity timebomb: Are we reaching our natural peak as a population or are obesity levels set to spiral over the next five years? What more can the food and drink industry do to prevent obesity levels getting further out of control?
- Colourful innovation: New products that buck the colour trend such as the new Black Cheese or the Purple Tomato.
- Natural rules: Natural alternatives to artificial ingredients - consumers wise up to the idea that artificial additives are unecessary and can be replaced by (usually more expensive) natural ingredients.
- The raw food movement: Raw food restaurants are opening in the UK and raw food brands are launching products into the mass-market. What next for the raw food revolution and will it ever gain mainstream acceptance?
- The honeybee crisis: what can the industry/consumers do to prevent bees from becoming extinct?
- Spotting the next big superfood: cherries, Manuka honey, coconut oil, what next?