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Happy Anniversary, Refrigerated & Frozen Foods

The future of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods is hot.

By Marina Mayer
Marina Mayer
January 16, 2020

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods turns 30 years old this year, and that means, yup, you guessed, a cause for celebration.

Turning 30 can sometimes create a feeling of panic and frustration. Maybe people don’t have their lives figured out. Maybe they’re in a crossroads of careers. Maybe they’re not where they envisioned they’d be.

Fortunately for all of our wonderful readers and advertisers, that’s not the case here.

That’s because Refrigerated & Frozen Foods has its path figured out, knows where it’s going and knows how to get there.

The future of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods is hot.

We continue to stay abreast of cutting-edge trends and technologies, cover hot topics impacting the cold chain and interview industry experts on changes in regulations, packaging, food safety and more.

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods kicks off the celebration with Good Foods, the recipient of our 2020 Refrigerated Foods Processor of the Year. Check out how Good Foods continues to make good foods better.

Throughout the year, we’ll be revisiting previously covered Processors of the Year, with this month’s issue talking to White Castle. CLICK HERE to learn more about its vegan offerings and other on-trend new product introductions. Future issues will revisit Evolution Fresh/Starbucks, OSI Group, Sugar Creek Foods, Palermo’s and Reser’s Fine Foods.

Our 2020 State of the Industry Report (July 2020 issue) will go more in-depth than ever before on industry trends, analysis, sustainability initiatives and more. Users can also hit up this page to submit new product profiles for our 2020 Best New Retail Products Contest.

While on our website, go here and submit nominations to upcoming cover story award opportunities. And, visit this page and check out our fairly new podcast channel, From the Cold Corner.

I don’t view our 30-year anniversary as just our brand’s celebration; it’s a celebration of the industry as a whole. It’s been a wild ride watching the cold chain industry progress over the years. Today, it’s all about e-commerce, blockchain, automation and fresh. It’s about traceability, cleanability and possibility. It’s about being all things to all people at all times.

And, we have zero plans of slowing down. We project to evolve side-by-side with the industry’s evolution, bringing readers the ultimate in trends, stats, studies, interviews and more, from agriculture to end user.

Happy Anniversary, Refrigerated & Frozen Foods. Time to celebrate.

KEYWORDS: e-commerce food processing grocery retail trends market trends RFF 30th Anniversary

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Marina Mayer was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods. Previously, she spent four years as managing editor and executive editor of Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery and Dairy Foods, both sister publications. In this role, Mayer was responsible for reporting on market trends, ingredient R&D, production technology and new products within the dairy, snack food and wholesale bakery markets. Prior to joining BNP Media, she served a five-year tenure as editor of quality control for Manufacturers' News, Inc., where she was named “Manager of the Year” in 2006. Previously, she worked as an editorial assistant for Insider Magazine and worked as a contributing features writer for her college newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student. Mayer was a recipient of a Young Leader Scholar award, presented from American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), which is given annually to only five U.S. journalists, 30 years of age and under. She is a graduate of Indiana University with a bachelor’s in journalism.

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