Cargill to offload cattle feedlots to Friona Industries
Friona Industries is poised to snap up Cargill’s feedyards in Bovina and Dalhart, Texas, with the US meat processor planning to raise funds for investment across North America.
Archives for July 10, 2016
What’s the latest on the ‘flexitarian’ trend?
As a plant-based diet becomes more on trend, analysts from Innova Market Insights reveal “new opportunities to target vegans, vegetarians, non-meat eaters, and non red-meat eaters.”
FOOD VISION USA: Are CPG’s biggest guns flogging dead donkeys or can their brands be salvaged?
While big ‘legacy’ food and beverage brands are laser focused on price, promotion and placement, no amount of financial or merchandising wizardry can mask the fact that smaller, sexier, more disruptive, brands are outpacing them. But should CPG’s biggest...
The Color Purple: DDW to launch natural color from purple corn at the IFT show
Natural colors specialist DDW will be launching a new food color at the IFT show that will deliver a vibrant red to purple hue, depending on pH, with a “clean, neutral taste.”
Brexit: What beverage companies think it will mean for their business
Brexit could help UK businesses realize there are opportunities outside of Europe – but it could also result in complications, uncertainty and slowed growth for the beverage sector.
Summer Fancy Food Show
Crio Bru offers brewing cocoa as convenient, healthy alternative to confections & coffee
Accessing the health benefits of chocolate without the unhealthy tradeoff of added sugar and dairy typically used to smooth out the ingredient’s bitter notes in confections just got easier with the expansion of Crio Bru’s brewing cocoa into the wildly...
Summer Fancy Food Show
Lotito Foods’ Folios could revolutionize how consumers use cheese
Consumers walking down the dairy aisle at a typical grocery store see a wide variety of cheese formats – from blocks to bricks to strings to shakers – but now there is a new format that could revolutionize the way consumers use cheese.