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Howard leads Euromonitor's global soft drinks research and strategic client engagement. He authors global reports on the industry and provides editorial support for our Passport soft drinks content. He is also the co-lead for Euromonitor's drinks blog.
Howard provides insights to Euromonitor's soft drinks client base on consumer trends, global category and market performance. He is particularly interested in cross-industry innovation, forecasting and new research methodologies. Howard’s insights have been cited in a variety of international programs and publications including the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Fortune magazine. In a previous role, he worked in health care and education survey research for the public sector.
After sharp retail price increases over the last two years, global soft drinks volume dipped significantly in 2023. Value-focused consumers are shifting into large format warehouse clubs, hard discounters and trading back to private label or B-brands in some categories. Yet a new value equation means more than simply seeking lower prices, with opportunities created by alternative formats, new functional need-states and category blurring premium innovation.
The Juice Summit is back! The prestigeous global conference’s first post-corona edition will take place on 12-13 October 2022 in Antwerp, Belgium. Year after year, the Juice Summit provides a forum for knowledge sharing and a unique networking opportunity for all industry players to shape the future of our sector.
Euromonitor International has launched its latest dashboard: the Soft Drinks Price Tracker. With unit price inflation still top of mind for suppliers and retailers across the global beverages industry, the Price Tracker dashboard allows subscribers to monitor product price movements, and assortment and pack size pricing strategies across categories and brands in the online channel.