Consumer, operator and market intelligence for the food, drink & nutrition sector
Inspiring the food, drink & nutrition industry with deep, actionable insights powered by the best analytics technology.

Consumer, operator and market intelligence for the food, drink & nutrition sector
Inspiring the food, drink & nutrition industry with deep, actionable insights powered by the best analytics technology.
Make informed business decisions with our market insights
From syndicated data to custom solutions, we provide the market intelligence essential for your success.


Shopper and consumer behaviour
From syndicated data to custom solutions, we provide the market intelligence essential for your success.


Market sizing
Accurately forecast the future with our robust market sizing tools, which track the performance of hospitality and grocery operators based on turnover and outlet numbers.


Category and channel consulting
Optimise your strategy with our expert category and channel consulting services, designed to enhance performance across multiple channels.
Discover the right insight solution for your business
Businesses rely on our consumer and market research to stay competitive and identify emerging trends. We monitor market shifts, track trends, and analyse competitors, providing your business with a comprehensive view of what drives growth.
In addition to our suite of subscriptions and reports, we offer a range of bespoke services to give clients a deeper understanding of their customers and categories across retail, wholesale and foodservice. We work collaboratively with our clients to deliver a solution tailored to their needs.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Market sizing – our specialist consultants harness our resources to provide you with a clear overview and identify opportunities within your chosen market.
- Customer segmentation – we analyse our data and where appropriate undertake additional tailored research for our clients, to help them to identify and understand their key customers to inform sales, trade marketing and category strategies.
- Category & channel consulting – our team of consultants can work across multiple channels to provide you with a 360 degree view of your category and identify opportunities within key channels.
The Convenience Tracking Programme provides you with shopper data on all categories to support your insights, category and sales teams to grow within the convenience channel. The tools are built to save you and your team time with automatically updated monthly reporting.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What are the current consumer trends in the convenience sector?
- How do different convenience store formats perform across various regions?
- What are the key factors driving consumer loyalty in convenience shopping?
- How does shopper behavior vary between categories in the convenience market?
- What competitive dynamics are influencing the convenience sector?
Access our cost-effective consumer insight and data solution with coverage across the total out of home channel covering food & drink.
Track, compare & analyse the pricing & menu composition of major UK pub, restaurant, QSR, sandwich and coffee shop operators.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What menu trends are emerging across different dining establishments?
- How are restaurants adjusting their menus in response to consumer demand?
- What are the most popular dishes and ingredients on menus currently?
- How do pricing strategies vary across different menu items and categories?
- What dietary trends are influencing menu changes?
Continuous turnover and outlet data on 400+ UK pub, restaurant, QSR, sandwich and coffee shop operators. Analyse the leading and fastest growing brands through an interactive dashboard, supplemented with quarterly market intelligence reports.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What is the market share of different operators in the foodservice industry?
- How are operator performance metrics trending over time?
- What competitive strategies are top operators employing?
- How do operators compare across various service and menu offerings?
- What are the growth opportunities for operators in specific market segments?
Discover the right insight solution for your business
Businesses rely on our consumer and market research to stay competitive and identify emerging trends. We monitor market shifts, track trends, and analyse competitors, providing your business with a comprehensive view of what drives growth.
In addition to our suite of subscriptions and reports, we offer a range of bespoke services to give clients a deeper understanding of their customers and categories across retail, wholesale and foodservice. We work collaboratively with our clients to deliver a solution tailored to their needs.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Market sizing – our specialist consultants harness our resources to provide you with a clear overview and identify opportunities within your chosen market.
- Customer segmentation – we analyse our data and where appropriate undertake additional tailored research for our clients, to help them to identify and understand their key customers to inform sales, trade marketing and category strategies.
- Category & channel consulting – our team of consultants can work across multiple channels to provide you with a 360 degree view of your category and identify opportunities within key channels.
The Convenience Tracking Programme provides you with shopper data on all categories to support your insights, category and sales teams to grow within the convenience channel. The tools are built to save you and your team time with automatically updated monthly reporting.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What are the current consumer trends in the convenience sector?
- How do different convenience store formats perform across various regions?
- What are the key factors driving consumer loyalty in convenience shopping?
- How does shopper behavior vary between categories in the convenience market?
- What competitive dynamics are influencing the convenience sector?
Access our cost-effective consumer insight and data solution with coverage across the total out of home channel covering food & drink.
Track, compare & analyse the pricing & menu composition of major UK pub, restaurant, QSR, sandwich and coffee shop operators.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What menu trends are emerging across different dining establishments?
- How are restaurants adjusting their menus in response to consumer demand?
- What are the most popular dishes and ingredients on menus currently?
- How do pricing strategies vary across different menu items and categories?
- What dietary trends are influencing menu changes?
Continuous turnover and outlet data on 400+ UK pub, restaurant, QSR, sandwich and coffee shop operators. Analyse the leading and fastest growing brands through an interactive dashboard, supplemented with quarterly market intelligence reports.
Questions we can help you answer:
- What is the market share of different operators in the foodservice industry?
- How are operator performance metrics trending over time?
- What competitive strategies are top operators employing?
- How do operators compare across various service and menu offerings?
- What are the growth opportunities for operators in specific market segments?
Latest market reports
Our reports deliver precise, clear and actionable insights for high-performing category, insight and marketing teams across the food, drink & nutrition sector.


Menu & Food Trends Market Report 2024
The Lumina Intelligence Menu & Food Trends Market Report 2024 provides an essential analysis of the latest developments in menu engineering and pricing across the UK’s chain restaurant and pub & bar sectors.
It highlights how operators are responding to challenges like price inflation and evolving consumer expectations while adapting their menu composition and product labelling.


Wholesale Online Report 2024
The Lumina Intelligence UK Wholesale Online Report 2024 is a deep dive into the latest data of the online channel across retail & foodservice wholesale, covering all aspects from how customers are ordering to significant new technology that is influencing the customer journey and purchasing decisions.


Restaurant Market Report 2024
The UK Restaurant Market report provides business leaders with valuable insight into key market developments and the business challenges and issues currently facing the UK Restaurant Market.
Hear what our clients have to say
From exceptional customer service to trusted, accessible insights—there are countless reasons to choose Lumina Intelligence.














Lumina Intelligence have been ahead of the game and incredibly supportive throughout the coronavirus pandemic, with daily trade updates and regular insights. The recent, Lumina Intelligence UK Recovery Report 2020 has been well structured and proved very valuable to our business. It provides a clear understanding of the impact and lasting behavioural changes of coronavirus across retail and out of home, it also uses consumer intelligence to build future scenarios that have helped us to plan creative adaptations of our business models.
The Eating Out report is one of the key sources of data we use yearly, both for internal development but also for customers’ presentations. It saves us a lot of time in primary research and the data is highly reliable.


This is one of the best and most in-depth reports on the delivery market I have come across. It includes extensive insight on consumer behaviour and provides valuable metrics on market growth, segmentation and performance that are proving useful across the business.
The Wholesale eCommerce report that Lumina Intelligence produced in 2019 was a really insightful actionable deck. The data they have is unique and we have used this within Kellogg across the UK and Europe to develop a strategy


The impact of Covid on Lumina Intelligence’s Convenience Tracking Programme ended up being a positive one. The product transitioned into a deeper, more dynamic and representative tracker of shopping behaviour which has increased its value within our business.


The new data analysis and visualisation tools supplied by Lumina Intelligence in the form of the self-serve dashboard and the Analyse Further function have been a giant leap forwards, providing access options for all levels of experience and expertise and we are really using them across all business functions. The tools are both advanced in their capabilities and intuitive in their functionality and have allowed us to better utilise insight within the organisation.
The data analysis and visualisation tools supplied by Lumina Intelligence in the form of the self-serve dashboard and the Analyse Further function have enabled significant progression in providing access options for all levels of category experience and expertise. This is crucial in building capability within the team and developing compelling category stories to share with both internal and external stakeholders. The tools are both advanced in their capabilities and intuitive in their functionality.


I was impressed by Lumina Intelligence’s quick reaction and support given around Covid insights in a really tough time. Programs like CTP provided vital insights for us and our customers.


I have been using the Lumina data tools frequently since launch. Lumina Intelligence has taken the time to find the right solution for us which helps us gain additional clarity and insight into the data and therefore maximise the return. The insights as well as ability to drill down further into the data has been invaluable in understanding the ever-changing market, channel, and shopper dynamics, and the increased frequency of delivery has been timely to capture this


Despite facing significant disruption due to Covid, the Convenience Tracking Programme has emerged as a stronger data service. The new approach to data collection and data/insight delivery has led to a number of benefits to us as a client, helping inform our own business on the current dynamics, but more importantly, helping us support our retail partners


The Convenience Trackign Programme provides greater depth and breadth in terms of sample size and coverage whilst retaining the core value of the product as a behavioural tracker.
I have been using the Lumina data tools frequently since launch. They have taken the time to find the right solution for customers which gets the maximum value from the research data.


Having used the Lumina Intelligence Convenience Tracking at McColl’s over the last year, we feel across the business that it is an invaluable product to understand the trends in convenience shoppers and their behaviours. We regularly use the data to update key senior stakeholders around shopper missions and trends, and specifically how our McColl’s shoppers compare, and where future opportunities for growth may be. The team at Lumina Intelligence are always on hand to support with any key questions/reporting queries and the overall solution is great value for money.


Lumina Intelligence Convenience Tracking programme has allowed us to create an aligned view of the convenience market across our internal teams. We can link our strategy to a reliable data source for the first time which gives us confidence when we can share our strategy with our customers.
The Convenience Tracking Programme data supports us at SPAR UK in developing our marketing strategy. We have built our shopper segments into the data to better understand our shoppers and their shopping behaviour. The continuous tracking data helps us to identify any key changes, as well as look at the impact of seasonality and other key events. The Lumina Intelligence team presents the latest trends and insights to our senior stakeholders each quarter to add further value to the insight.