For a few days, it was the nation’s largest new vehicle showroom. When the Material Handling Industry Association hosted its ProMat 2009 convention this January at Chicago’s McCormick Place, the event gave 300,000 square feet of exhibition space, in part, to new lift truck technologies.
Perhaps the idea of “business as usual” no longer exists in today’s economy. Even so, the nation’s largest dairy processor appears to be back on track.
Mixtures. Blends. It’s certainly not a new concept to any fresh-cut salad processor. Nor is it new to Fresh Express’ parent Chiquita Brands International Inc., Cincinnati, which reported mixed results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.
Having posted a strong performance just a year before, the nation’s largest poultry, beef and pork processor, Tyson Foods Inc., ran into some fowl conditions in fiscal 2008.
Although the phrase, “burning the candle at both ends” has an unhealthy association, ConAgra Foods’ Lamb Weston frozen potato and appetizer business proves that a food processor can be equally busy at both ends of its business - from agriculture to insights research - while the company prospers.
Its global slogan reads, “Good Food. Good Life.” For that matter, CPG giant Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, could take it further and add “good year” to the list.
It may be the title of President Barack Obama’s best-selling biography, but “The Audacity of Hope,” also is a phrase that applies to the current state of affairs in the refrigerated and frozen food industry.
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