News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Can we as a society eat our way to health by consuming fewer high-yield, mass-produced foods such as modern wheat? That’s the position taken by Bob Quinn, Ph.D., an organic farmer and founder of Kamut International – a producer of the ancient grain,...
Terms such as ‘streamlining overheads’ and ‘footprint optimization’ conjure up images of job cuts and factory closures, but IFF’s $7.1bn megadeal to acquire Israeli flavors and natural ingredients firm Frutarom is “all about growth, not cost savings at...
Do you ever feel like you are in mortal combat with your business? Like either you are killing it, and orders are rolling in, sales are up and margins are wide – or it is killing you, and there are packing delays, profits are down and you can’t sleep at...
news in brief
Western’s Smokehouse is tapping growing consumer trends for healthier products in the US with the introduction of a three-strong meat snack stick line.
Paleo snacks producer Caveman Foods has appointed former Starbucks executive, Jeff Hansberry, as its new CEO.
Cloverhill bakery - acquired from Aryzta in February this year - has helped Hostess Brands' Q1 2018 net revenue increase by 13.1%, reaching $208.7m.
'It makes no sense to mandate that an agency create new food regulations in a spending bill'
The Good Food Institute (GFI) - a non-profit representing players in the burgeoning plant-based and cell-cultured (aka ‘clean’) meat arena – says it’s baffled by language in a draft spending bill that tasks the USDA with issuing new regulations covering...