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Once an evening or afternoon treat, snacks move into the morning hours as the role breakfast plays changes and is being stretched out over the course of the morning.

It’s already three months in to 2012, which means some of those New Year’s Resolutioners have already caved back into their old ways. The gym is less crowded, and diet plans are already becoming “so last year.”

Whether served during the big game, as an after-school snack for the kids or as an easy Wednesday night dinner, frozen pizza is a staple in consumers’ everyday lives. Now, pizza manufacturers are finding ways to increase their market share by customizing their products for emerging lifestyle trends.

The snack industry should plan on attending or exhibiting at SNAXPO 2012, March 16-19, in Phoenix at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Snack Food Association, this exciting diamond anniversary (75th year) snack event will provide opportunities to network with snack food industry professionals from around the world, learn the latest and greatest trends and technologies and hear interesting speakers, such as former Arkansas governor and best-selling author, Mike Huckabee.

Many clean-label manufacturers are making headway in snack and bakery segments by creating exciting new foods for consumers to enjoy, proving that clean-label foods can also be tasty and satisfying.

Don Pancho Authentic Mexican Foods’ state-of-the-art tortilla production facility in Halifax, N.C., is now fully onstream, paving the way for tortillas to become a weekly staple in the non-Hispanic market. Adding three more production lines at the Halifax location, the company is offering an array of new, better-for-you tortillas, wraps and chips that are helping make the most of its dynamic tortilla business.

A new report from marketing communications leader JWT outlines its seventh year-end forecast of key trends that drive or impact the consumer mindset and behavior in the year ahead.

Don Pancho East, Halifax, N.C., is brimming with a high-energy staff and high-tech tortilla production on four new lines that can each output as much as 60,000 tortillas per hour.

Since 1974, Grecian Delight Foods has prided itself on a variety of Greek and ethnic foods. Find out how this Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based company is expanding beyond its roots.

Doritos fans gear up to submit homemade ads for this year's "Crash the Super Bowl" contest, where one fan finalist will have the chance to see his/her ad air during the Super Bowl XLVI broadcast.