Top Articles of 2024
Top 150 Processors, plant tours among most popular content.
The IDFA Ice Cream Commitment applies to products made with real milk sold at food retail by the nation’s commercial ice cream makers. In addition to branded and private label sales, many of the nation’s commercial ice cream makers distribute their products to restaurants, ice cream parlors and scoop shops. Courtesy FluxFactory / iStock / Getty Images Plus.
The annual Top 150 Frozen Food Processors Report, released this year in July, retained the top spot as the most popular article posted in 2024, topping the second place finisher, our January, 2024, cover, a Cold Storage Roadmap.
R&FF's special series, Farm to Frozen by Marty Khait was among the most popular reads this year, reflecting our commitment to the cold storage industry. The series will be back on a quarterly basis in 2025. Other big headlines in the cold storage industry included included Lineage's blockbuster IPO and the many announcements of new projects, groundbreakings and openings.
Conagra's first Future of Frozen Food report made big headlines in 2024. We'll see how the 2025 report, just released, shapes up this year. And the announcement this fall from The Campbell's Company to drop 'soup' from its name was widely shared on social media.
Additional highlights from the year include:
- Plant tour of the Bob Evans Farms mashed potato plant in Lima, Ohio, where the No. 1 selling refrigerated side dish is produced.
- Opening of Suntado, Idaho's first vertically-integrated dairy processing plant, which has big plans for private label.
- Interview with Afia Foods on the opening of their automated, greenfield Texas falafel production facility.
- The winners of the 2024 Best New Retail Products contest.
Thank you to all the gracious subject matter experts who shared some of their expertise with the industry this year and to all those who engaged with Refrigerated & Frozen Foods and RFFmag.com in 2024!
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