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    2025 Capital Spending Outlook: Ominous! 

    Join our webinar for Food Processing's own research into 2025 food & beverage manufacturing budgets, what the biggest food and beverage companies actually spent in 2024 and the key projects and equipment driving investment in this challenging market.

    April 24, 2025 

    2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM GMT 

    Duration: 1 hour 

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    Summary

    Our just-completed 2025 Capital Spending Outlook finds 31 of the biggest U.S. and Canadian processors collectively budgeting 1.1% less this year than they actually spent last year. While that’s a tiny drop, we haven’t seen a budgeted decrease since our 2009 report – and that came in the midst of the 2008-2009 Great Recession. We’ll analyze what this barometer says about the manufacturing health of the food & beverage industry and also highlight some of the top projects underway and what processors are spending their capex dollars on

    Speakers:

    Dave Fusaro Editor in Chief Food Processing
    Dave Fusaro
    Editor in Chief
    Food Processing

    Dave has been editor in chief of Food Processing since 2003. Before that, he was editor in chief of Dairy Foods and managing editor of Prepared Foods, so he’s been covering the food and beverage industry for 30 years and has visited dozens, maybe 100 or more, food and beverage plants

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    Gary Stibel
    Founder & CEO
    The New England Consulting Group
     
    Gary’s career spans more than 40 years of line management and management consulting for businesses that are marketing and sales driven for clients who are market and thought leaders. He anchors New England Group’s food & beverage, health & wellness, restaurant, financial services and private equity practices. See necg.net.

    Moderator

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    Andy Hanacek

    Senior Editor, Plant Operations

    Food Processing

    Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for more than 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.

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