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Vince Sgabellone
Industry Analyst, Food and Foodservice
Vince Sgabellone has worked in many different roles across the food and foodservice industry. From sales to marketing, distribution to product development, and manufacturers to operators. All of this has served him well since entering the research industry with Circana more than a decade ago.
In his role, Sgabellone combines his analytic abilities and natural curiosity with his expertise in the industry. He helps his clients to understand the market, the competition, and the consumer.
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Vince Sgabellone
When shoppers shift allegiances overnight and margins leave no room for error, a rising sales line can mask a brand that is actually losing ground, while decisions built on partial evidence turn momentum into missed opportunity. Unifying every signal, from the register to the household, exposes the forces behind performance, clarifies the most profitable next move, and gives AI the reliable footing it needs to produce answers leaders can trust.
15 Oct 2026
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AI decision intelligence connects AI to verified industry data, business context, and enterprise workflows, so answers lead to governed decisions instead of isolated productivity gains. Circana’s Liquid AI™ grounds each response in POS-validated retail measurement and category knowledge, and delivers it through the applications, agents, and assistants your teams already use.
7 Oct 2026
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With more than two-thirds consumers now using generative AI to explore and choose products, and AI agents dramatically narrowing the digital shelf, brands and retailers must now earn selection from both people and algorithms. Circana’s experts explore where consumer trust truly stands, what shoppers expect from AI assistants, and the strategic levers that separate category leaders from those left off the shortlist.
30 Sept 2026
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Category management teams get more signals than they can act on. The job is picking the two or three that will move the category before the next buyer meeting. Continuous monitoring across retailer point-of-sale, shopper and competitive data surfaces assortment gaps, white space and price or pack gaps as they appear, so the recommendation is ready before the meeting is.
29 Sept 2026
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Spooky season has arrived. With it comes a cauldron of swirling consumer behaviors and opportunities for brands, retailers, foodservice operators, and others with Halloween-themed offerings. Halloween remains a major holiday for many consumers, with Circana data showing that about one-half of families in the U.S. plan to celebrate the occasion.
28 Sept 2026
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Holiday 2026 media planning is the work of deciding how early to spend, which channels to fund, and how to measure a season that no longer starts at Thanksgiving. This on-demand Circana session, recorded in September, 2026, is for brand managers, media directors, category managers and insights leads who own holiday spend or the forecast it is graded against.
24 Sept 2026
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