The U.S. restaurant industry anticipates another year of disappointing growth while c-stores, which have focused more on quality food and beverage offerings, will most likely see an increase in traffic, says a survey by business-advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.
Orville Redenbacher’s Pop Up Bowl for popcorn was a top winner in the 2012 FPA Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. Chosen from 86 entries in 126 competition categories, the winners include 25 packages that received 31 Achievement Awards for packaging excellence, printing achievement, technical innovation, and environmental and sustainability achievement.
Kellogg leaps at buying the Pringles chip brand from Procter & Gamble for $2.7 billion after a sale with Diamond Foods was sidetracked by Diamond’s accounting troubles and a management shakeup.
President Obama is asking for a 17% boost to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) budget for fiscal year 2013. Most of the increase would come from increasing industry fees, says the budget request released by the Administration.
Cupcakes continue to lure consumers, and it may not be a fad. Some 669.4 million of the treats were sold from October 2010 to October 2011, according to the market research firm NPD. It’s an enduring love affair.
For the first time, iba summit, a day-long global baking dialogue, will be featured at iba 2012. The summit promises top speakers who will discuss world nutrition and trends in the international baking industry.
Join Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery and Hixson, one of the leading design and engineering firms in North America, for this webinar series that explores several issues shaping food plants in the future, including productivity improvement and cost reduction, sustainability, and food safety.
The Grain Foods Foundation (GFF) board of trustees agrees to refocus the foundation’s efforts into three main objectives, including a move from concentrating on consumers to promoting nutrition benefits of grain foods to key influencers, tracking those initiatives and maintaining crisis management reserves.