Sustainable chip packaging is a risky thing -- just ask Sun Chips, which junked its high-decibel compostable bag after poor sales. But PepsiCo isn't giving up on the category.READ MORE›
Ben & Jerry's has managed to cultivate such a sustainable aura that we're surprised this hasn't happened before: The ice cream giant announced a plan this week to go fully Fair Trade by 2013. That means all of the 121 chunks and ...READ MORE›
Just a few weeks after Frito-Lay rolled out the 100% compostable SunChips bag, Snyder's of Hanover has announced sustainability packaging of its own. Like Frito-Lay, the pretzel maker has decided to use plant-based materials in some ...READ MORE›
Instead of tossing that bag of Doritos in the trash, consider sending it back to Frito-Lay. It might just get turned into a tote bag.
Frito-Lay has announced that it's opening 1,000 collection sites in the U.S. for used snack ...READ MORE›
YoHo Expo is a booth vendor for International Trade Fair for the Baking and Confectionery Trades,it attracted more foreign companies in 2008,like Adepta,VMI,Rademaker,Optima,Nakai,JSC,Ireks,CODAP,Dandum Mas,etc.If your company comes ...READ MORE›
YoHo Expo is a booth vendor for International Trade Fair for the Baking and Confectionery Trades,it attracted more foreign companies in 2008,like Adepta,VMI,Rademaker,Optima,Nakai,JSC,Ireks,CODAP,Dandum Mas,etc.If your company comes ...READ MORE›
Chocolate lovers, rejoice. A research team led by scientists at Mars
Inc., the U.S. Department of Agriculture--Agricultural Research
Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM this week sequenced the genome of the cacao tree. Best of all, the ...READ MORE›
"Consumers have a lot of curiosity about our products," says Cathy Dial, head of consumer affairs at Frito-Lay. "They want to know where we get the ideas for our flavors." With flavors that range from zesty taco and fiery habanero, ...READ MORE›
Here's an interesting story of a company taking a grassroots approach to market a new product.
The product: PepsiCo's Baked Doritos and Baked Lay's potato chips -- an attempt at an image overhaul as the company is often criticized ...READ MORE›
If you ask me what’s the single biggest challenge, I’d say we simply have too many people. The place is too small for that many people and simply cannot support it. 25 years ago 2 billion people was already too many and soon ...READ MORE›
Only a month after Cadbury announced its plan to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana, rival candy giant Mars has promised to source all chocolate products from sustainable suppliers by 2020. The move, which means the company will only buy ...READ MORE›
Manure-powered biogas facilities are becoming increasingly popular around the world, with companies ranging from L'Oreal to Beijing's Deqingyuan Chicken Farm getting on board. Now the Ukraine Milk Company is banking on 4,000 cows ...READ MORE›
Frito-Lay was heralded for becoming a sustainable purveyor of snacks last year. But the company is quietly bagging its green chip packaging after only 18 months.READ MORE›
This Friday, November 17, Eric Schlosser's best-seller, "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal," hits the big screen. Directed by Richard Linklater of "A Scanner Darkly," fame, the film takes audiences on a tour of ...READ MORE›
Recently, the Ben & Jerry's brand announced that it had decided to take the phrase "All Natural" off some of their ice cream and frozen yogurt packages. This is in response to a request from The Center for the Science in the ...READ MORE›
At 95 decibels, the sound of the recently unveiled compostable Sun Chips bag is louder than a jet cockpit. And that's giving Frito-Lay a lot of free publicity.READ MORE›
As it becomes apparent that our current system of globalized food production is both unhealthy and untenable, competitions have emerged to find ways to bring local food to urban neighborhoods. Earlier this month, Redesign Your ...READ MORE›
We were more than a little excited when SunChips announced a plan earlier this year to roll out the world's first 100% compostable chip bag. A bag that breaks down entirely after 14 weeks in a compost bin? It has to be the ...READ MORE›
First Cadbury announced a plan earlier this year to buy fair-trade cocoa from Ghana. Then Mars promised to source all chocolate from sustainable suppliers by 2020, and now Nestle--the world's largest food manufacturer--has followed ...READ MORE›
Ben & Jerry's led the way to the current phenomenon we call corporate social responsibility. Its path-breaking practices include everything from paying living wages to restraining the differential between pay for the CEO and the lowest level employee--currently on a 7x multiple.READ MORE›
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