Who doesn’t love sitting down to a home-cooked meal? It’s a luxury not everyone can enjoy due to the amount of work that goes into it, such as recipe research, ingredient planning, grocery shopping and the preparation time. Before all of that can even happen, there is a much bigger piece to preparing a home-cooked meal—it starts with getting food and beverages from farms, factories or consumer packaged goods (CPG) plants to the stores.
Food and beverage distributors work hard to ensure customers get only quality food, yet there are new challenges that affect the industry today, including changing demand and increased variety, market consolidation, federal, state and local labor laws and tax reform.