New products, processor-retailer relationships and consumer trends will be key topics at the Food Marketing Institute's (FMI) "Future Connect" conference this Oct. 12-14 at Dallas' Hyatt Regency.
Smoked salmon and frozen yogurt were two of the four new products honored at the first All Things Organic New Product Competition, held during the recent All Things Organic Conference & Trade Show.
Although they're tightening their spending due to economic concerns, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of U.S. families are purchasing organic products -- at least occasionally -- for health reasons.
Dean Foods Co., Dallas, will pay approximately $450 million to acquire the Alpro division of Vandemoortele N.V., Belgium's largest privately held food company.
To broaden its executive team capabilities, H.J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., said executive vice presidents Dave Moran and Scott O'Hara will switch jobs effective July 15.
Completed last summer, a $46 million central commissary in Claysburg, Pa., is now servicing the more than 350 convenience stores belonging to Sheetz Inc., Altoona, Pa.
New features at Hormel Foods Corp.'s consumer Web site (www.hormel.com) let consumers download and print their own coupons for retail deli sandwich meats (55 cents), pepperoni (55 cents), microwave bacon, party trays and even refrigerated entrees ($2.00).
You can’t handle the truth!” is the most famous line from the 1992 courtroom drama “A Few Good Men” starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. In the Academy Award-nominated film the “truth” in question has to do with a violent crime.
U.S. food and beverage processors will invest an estimated $6.5 billion their manufacturing and distribution assets during the next two years according to Industrial Info Resources (IIR).
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