Zap, pow, wham, ka boom. No, that’s not a cartoon buzzing in the background—that’s the sound of refrigerated and frozen food processors charging their way through retailers’ shelves and restaurant kitchens and on to consumers’ plates.
The votes are in for Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ Readers’ Choice Best New Retail Products contest. Congratulations to the Top 5 processors, and thank you to all of our readers for your cooperation.
To enable foodservice manufacturers to launch more profitable new products, The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA), Chicago, and Canada-based Stage-Gate International released a report charting four essential best practices in foodservice new product development.
Vote for your favorite new refrigerated and frozen food to be highlighted in Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ annual State of the Industry report (July 2013 issue).
The latest research from SymphonyIRI Group’s Times & Trends, “CPG
2011 Year in Review: The Search for Footing in an Evolving
Marketplace,” uncovers several exciting trends -- from new product development and technology to store layouts
and consumer shopping patterns.
Lyco Manufacturing has opened a food product development laboratory to assist its customers with product recipe development and machinery trials involving continuous-process cookers, blanchers and chillers.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers (CFIG) has announced its "Top 10 Innovative Products" for 2012 at day two of Grocery Innovations Canada.
