News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Target’s $550m plan to acquire Shipt - which like Instacart, deploys hordes of personal shoppers to pick online orders from stores and deliver them directly to customers in their own vehicles – is a logical move that will help it capture a larger slice...
NEWS IN BRIEF
Food and beverage giant Dannon, as a part of DanoneWave Public Benefit Corporation, announced it 6th Annual Yogurt, Probiotics, and the Gut Microbiome Fellowship Grant, which awards two $25,000 research grants for use in 2018.
Increasingly savvy shoppers who are well-versed in food production and nutrition are turning the tables on the farm-to-fork marketing model that once educated them and influenced what they consumed to create a fork-to-farm model that requires producers,...
The $23bn US bread market is facing a crisis as low-protein levels in this year’s winter wheat crop have given rise to higher costs.
When Anne Laraway takes the reins of the fastest growing baby food brand in the country in January as the new CEO of Happy Family Organics, she plans to expand its reach into new markets with new products while remaining “laser focused on our mission to...
News in brief
Hostess Brands’ executive vice president and chief commercial officer, Andrew Jacobs, has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO).
More than 20 cases of E. coli O157 have been linked to romaine lettuce in Canada.