Articles

Software Puts Your Plant on Fast-Forward

New automation software lets you 'TiVo' your process, while Johnsonville Sausage finds a neat trick to make SAP data more usable in the plant.
Post Date: 02/08/2012
Author: Bob Sperber, Plant Operations Editor

A Food Processor's Most Magnificent Deal

Prepare the next generation to take over the family business by buying it from you.
Post Date: 01/24/2012
Author: Tom Deans, Author

Survey Finds Trends Among Technology, Social Media and Older Consumers

According to Pew Research, Baby Boomers and older folks using social media has increased enormously in the past two years.
Post Date: 01/12/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News and Trends Editor

Survey Results Show Consumers Purchasing Takeout Meals At Least Once a Week

Technomic reports 57 percent of its survey respondents purchase takeout once a week or more
Post Date: 01/11/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News and Trends Editor

Manufacturing Software: How Well Do you Know Your System?

Food processors expect more from manufacturing software, and they are getting it.
Post Date: 01/10/2012
Author: David Phillips, Technical Editor

2012 Manufacturing Trends Survey: Can Production This Year Top 2011?

Processors can't get a break from uncertain markets, rising costs and changing safety standards, but they continue to grow and keep optimism high.
Post Date: 01/09/2012
Author: Bob Sperber, Plant Operations Editor

Hottest Foodservice and Hospitality Trends for 2012

Foodservice and hospitality consulting agency Andrew Freeman & Co. offers a slew of trends for 2012
Post Date: 01/03/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Huffington Post Casts Predictions For The Culinary World

The economic doldrums of the past few years have hit most restaurants hard, but fast casual is flourishing, reports the Huffington Post.
Post Date: 01/03/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

2012 Food Industry Outlook: A Taste of Things To Come

Healthier foods, more nutraceuticals, greener everything and other challenges and consumer trends for the new year.
Post Date: 01/03/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Generation Go Goes Entrepreneurial

JWT releases its annual year-end forecast of key trends that will drive or significantly impact consumer mind-set and behavior in the year ahead.
Post Date: 01/03/2012
Author: Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor

Editor's Plate: Heinz, Naturally

Another champion from Pittsburgh! 57 or so reasons why the not-just-ketchup company was a standout in 2011.
Post Date: 12/01/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

2011 Processor of the Year: H.J. Heinz Co.

While keeping ketchup at the forefront, this 142-year-old company keeps reinventing itself, domestically and around the world.
Post Date: 11/29/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

2011 Processor of the Year H.J. Heinz Co: Pouring and Squeezing Out Package Innovations

Heinz has launched two packaging innovations in the company's iconic ketchup that company executives think could be game-changers.
Post Date: 11/29/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

Toops' Scoops: The Real Thing Turns 125

Two American icons, Coca-Cola and Lady Liberty, celebrate their anniversaries.
Post Date: 11/23/2011
Author: Diane Toops, News and Trends Editor

Editor's Plate: Where's the FDA's New Funding?

The Food Safety Modernizaton Act has become one of the victims of feuding in Washington. Is good enough good enough?
Post Date: 10/17/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

China and India Are Hungry … for Your Products

Now, the two most populous countries also are the fastest-growing; their burgeoning middle classes are developing Western cravings.
Post Date: 10/05/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

Africa: The World's Next Great Economic Story

Coca-Cola Co.'s Alexander Cummings recently spoke to Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research and African Leadership Academy about Africa's growing economic power.
Post Date: 10/05/2011
Author: Food Processing staff

Mergers & Acquisitions Activity Returning to Pre-2008 Levels

With 322 total mergers and acquisitions recorded in 2010, the food and beverage industry is seeing the highest M&A figure since 2008, and about even with the 2005 figure.
Post Date: 08/31/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief

Food Processing Top 100 Observations

Sales and income figures from 2010 look promising, but 2011 brings new challenges for food & beverage processors
Post Date: 08/08/2011
Author: Dexter Manning, Grant Thornton LLP

Top Food and Beverage Companies for 2011: PepsiCo Takes the Lead

Our annual report on the food and beverage industry's top companies finds that the biggest news is only one company reported a loss in 2010.
Post Date: 08/02/2011
Author: Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief