Our case studies focus on brands and products that provide lessons from real challenges and opportunities which you can use to inform business strategy. They are packed with detail including brand portfolio, pricing, and communications and marketing strategy, merchandising and distribution, and come with a check list of key lessons learned.
Published: December 2019
Case study: Marty's
Danone enters the UK ambient kids’ snacks market for the first time with its Marty’s brand of allergy-friendly snacks. Products from Marty’s are free from peanuts, egg and gluten and are claimed to be “delicious snacks that you can trust”.
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Published: March 2023
Case study: Meiji LG21
LG21 became a revolutionary pioneer of yoghurt with functional claims when it launched in 2000. Today it is the market leader in the Japanese yoghurt market, much thanks to its proven effect on digestive health.
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Published: October 2017
Case Study: Meta Matcha
Founded in 2015, Meta Matcha is a New York based brand with the ambition of offering a viable alternative to coffee in their rannge of matcha based RTD drinks and powders
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Published: November 2022
Case study: Minute Maid Zero Sugar
This Coca-Cola owned brand has come a long way since its foundation in 1945. The Minute Maid Zero Sugar line became one of the most popular new launches in 2021, with sales exceeding $70m.
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Published: March 2021
Case study: Moma (2021 update)
Since we last wrote about this British breakfast brand its sales have grown by 22% and it has forayed beyond breakfast products to enter the oat milk space.
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Published: March 2020
Case study: Mossgiel Farm
Can a business be based on sustainability? Scottish dairy company Mossgiel Farm suggests that the answer to that question is ‘yes’. Bryce Cunningham has built Mossgiel Farm’s brand identity on sustainability and provenance and saw sales grow by over 100% in 2019.
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Published: December 2021
Case study: Mud Wtr
Shane Heath got tired of the Silicon Valley culture and decided to leave the tech start-up industry to create Mud Wtr - an adaptogen-enriched powdered coffee alternative sold DTC. The brand has seen great success over the past year and is proof that it is possible to build a flourishing F&B business entirely without the help of traditional retailers.
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Published: October 2018
Case Study: MyMuesli
MyMuesli is a company whose success is fuelled by the personalisation trend, offering consumers to blend their own muesli from 83 different ingredients. With sales approaching $60m and successful cooperations with major companies like Emmi, the future for MyMuesli is looking bright.
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Published: January 2020
Case study: Nairn's
Founded in 1896, Nairn’s has grown to become one of the UK’s biggest free-from brands. The Scottish oatcake company specialises in gluten-free and connects to an impressive nine of our identified key trends and mega trends for 2020.
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Published: October 2017
Case Study: Natural Delights
Natural Delights have successfully harnessed consumer interest in natural alternatives to sugar to grow their well-established date business in the US
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