Topic: Food Manufacturing

A Matter of Taste

New flavor enhancers due in 2006 promise to make your taste buds more efficient.READ»

Don't Throw That Chip Bag Away! Give It Back to Frito-Lay, and Let Terracycle Turn It Into a Fashion Accessory

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»

A Chocolate Maker is Buffeted By Global Forces Beyond His Control

How long can he stay profitable?READ»

Backery China by YoHo Expo

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»

Bakery CHINA by YoHo Expo

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»

Fast Food Nation

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»

PepsiCo's Healthy Project in the 'hood

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»

What's The World's Biggest Challenge? Can Technologies Save Us? Or We Need To Rethink Economies And Ecologies?

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»

Mars Promises Candy from Sustainable Cocoa

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»

How to Turn Urban Spaces into Food Production Centers

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»

Making Nice: The Stops and Starts of Advertising for a Cause

The stops and starts of pausing for a causeREAD»

• Made To Stick: An Arms Race of Goodness

Marketing Tuesday: McDonalds Caters to Local Palates

I recently wrote a blog post, Lost in Translation – How Do Linguistic Differences Affect Global Marketing, on how, in line with cultural differences, advertising, commercials and marketing materials are necessarily differently ...READ»

Piggybacking on Other Brands

Here's a novel shot at a new restaurant concept: An eatery devoted to serving breakfast cereal. Cereality, a Boulder, Colorado, company this Wednesday opens its first full scale, sit-down restaurant, near the campus of the University ...READ»

Agriculture 2.0: The First Sustainable Agriculture Investment Conference

While no one advocates that we should stop producing food, when the finger-pointing over climate change begins, the ag industry often gets an unfair shake. If agriculture is so disproportionally bad for the planet, shouldn't ...READ»

National Candy Cane Day

Sweet-toothed consumers will spend $214 million on candy canes this holiday season -- 2 billion of them in all. Sales are expected to be up 2% over last year -- growth that Dylan Lauren, founder of the New York sugar palace ...READ»

The Global Food Crisis

Even as Americans talk about flab (see July 27), 15% of the world is going hungry and food prices in most developing countries are higher than they were a year ago. Profiteers are a problem; speculation on food prices has replaced ...READ»

7. Tasty Trader

Previous | Next When you want the best, you go to the source. John Scharffenberger is part of the vanguard of high-end chocolatiers in America who are reeducating palates numbed by eons of cheap milk chocolate. But as a ...READ»

7. Tasty Trader

Previous | Next When you want the best, you go to the source. John Scharffenberger is part of the vanguard of high-end chocolatiers in America who are reeducating palates numbed by eons of cheap milk chocolate. But as a ...READ»

Deep Pockets, Open Mind

Got soy? Scott Lutz and his colleagues at 8th Continent aim to create an innovative player in a fast-growing segment of the food business. The formula: Use the clout of their corporate parents (DuPont and General Mills) and the brains of executives who think different.READ»

A Farming Fairy Tale

Imagine that you could wave a wand--and make all our food organic.READ»

The (Ice) Cream Rises...

It's summer time, and the living is easy. So our minds turn to all things summer: kite flying, picnics in the park, baseball, and ice cream. Today's New York Times offers two glimpses behind the business of ice cream -- which make ...READ»

McDonald's Moves Closer to Pesticide-Free French Fries

McDonald's french fries are crunchy, delightfully salty, and covered in pesticides. That last point may not be true for much longer now that the company has agreed to survey and promote best practices in potato pesticide use ...READ»

An All Natural Icon Reaches Beyond Whole Foods

As Reed’s ginger brew makes a play for the big leagues, the natural question arises: Can the brand's success be attributed to the marketing or is it all about the taste? READ»

• Has Pepsi Got Your Number?
• Jonesing for Soda

The Metrics of Fear: The USDA and Mad Cow Disease

The global anxiety that erupted following the discovery of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States last month offers a compelling contrast between risk and fear. How disproportionate is the current fear in relation to ...READ»

Fixing the Wealth Gap

Here's an idea from reader Lucio Fernandez in Spain. Many countries, he points out, have minimum wage laws. But those don't do much to solve the gulf between the poor and the extremely wealthy. Some companies, like Ben & Jerry's ...READ»