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BrandsPepsiCo, Coca-Cola to add QR codes for ingredients transparency
BusinessNestlé buys rest of ready-to-drink meals brand
Food SafetyNew Salmonella outbreak traced to Evergreen Sprouts
This is the third outbreak since 2011 linked to Evergreen Sprouts.
Ingredients
CVC Capital builds out ingredients portfolio with Irca acquisition
Nutrition
Alcohol brands need to emphasize value to grow sales: report
Packaging
Greif, Charter Next Generation, McKinley announced closures in September
Retail & Dining
Food giants may lean more on lawsuits as private label encroaches on their turf
Food Safety
Standards, pathogens, testing and regulatory decisions shaping the food system.
Business
Companies, capital and the economics of food and beverage.
BusinessNestlé buys rest of ready-to-drink meals brand
The purchase of the remaining 51% of yfood Labs comes three years after the food giant’s initial investment, and will give Nestlé a bigger presence in healthier, portable offerings.
BusinessDanone exits stake in Lifeway Foods
The dairy giant is selling off its shares in the kefir maker, ending a long and tumultuous relationship between the two companies.
Ingredients
The materials, flavours and formulations behind the next product cycle.
IngredientsCVC Capital builds out ingredients portfolio with Irca acquisition
The deal for the Italian dessert ingredients supplier comes about a month after the private equity firm purchased IFF's ingredients business for $4.3 billion.
Better together: Hershey’s combined sweets and snacks business pays off for retailers, consumers
Bibigo owner to build cultivated seaweed plant to fuel Korean food demand
Ingredients
IFF to sell food ingredients business for $4.3B
Ingredients
WK Kellogg adds on-pack nutrition guide to highlight cereal benefits
Ingredients
New York poised to become first state to close food ingredient ‘loophole’ criticized by RFK Jr
Ingredients
Quality vs quantity: Food makers face tradeoffs when choosing protein source
Ingredients
Leftovers: Clif chews on energy bites | Jimmy Dean bulks up protein offerings
Technology
Processing, automation, artificial intelligence and production systems.
TechnologyBeef tallow takeover? Big food companies begin to embrace MAHA ingredient
Major food companies such as Conagra and Utz are making products with the rendered animal fat, which has seen its popularity soar under RFK Jr.’s recent dietary guideline changes.
Nutrition
Nutrition science, functional food and changing health priorities.
NutritionAlcohol brands need to emphasize value to grow sales: report
Current offerings aren't doing enough to convince a large cohort of consumers that the price is “worth it,” according to a Deloitte analysis.
NutritionFormer Red Bull exec tapped to lead turnaround at Zevia
NutritionChobani sued by Danone over high-protein yogurt claims
Brands
Brands, product development and the behaviour of modern consumers.
BrandsPepsiCo, Coca-Cola to add QR codes for ingredients transparency
The beverage giants are joining an industrywide effort to connect consumers with government safety data as shoppers become increasingly concerned about what’s in their food and drinks.
BrandsAnheuser-Busch invests $20M in Michelob Ultra production in bet on beer rebound
Sustainability
Agriculture, climate, waste and resilient food systems.
SustainabilityNAPCOR envisions cutting PET bottle life-cycle emissions 57% by 2050
Lightweighting is a leading strategy to accelerate decarbonization. Srinivasan Prabhushankar, technical director at NAPCOR, highlighted "credible methodologies where the proof is there that this is achievable.".
SustainabilityTarget extends packaging recyclability goal to 2035
The retailer also had a hard time moving the needle on PCR use, but made some progress with lightweighting and refill efforts, per its 2026 sustainability and governance report.
SustainabilityConsumers increasingly prioritize sustainability for e-commerce packaging: Ryder
SustainabilityCrown Holdings shares climate transition plan
SustainabilityGraphic Packaging releases sustainability report as CSO departs
SustainabilityKenvue surpasses 2025 plastic reduction target, falls short on recyclability
Supply Chain
Trade, logistics, commodities and the movement of food.
Supply ChainTakis to remove artificial colors
The spicy rolled tortilla chip brand popular among children will phase out synthetic dyes and the preservative TBHQ by the end of the year.
Supply Chain
Quest protein bar owner cuts 15% of workforce in restructuring
Supply Chain
JBS workers go on strike at one of largest beef plants in the US
Supply Chain
Revisiting the predictions: How have GLP-1s changed the food industry?
Supply Chain
How CPGs can weather an incoming food packaging storm
Supply Chain
Brewers can use kosher certifications to win vegan, vegetarian consumers
Retail & Dining
Retail formats, restaurants and foodservice operations.
Retail & Dining
Food giants may lean more on lawsuits as private label encroaches on their turf
Mondelēz and J.M. Smucker have accused discount retailers of blatantly copying their products and packaging. Experts say more litigation is likely coming.
Retail & Dining
Midwest grocer Harding’s announces 4-store acquisition
Retail & Dining
Aldi to enter Midtown Manhattan
Retail & Dining
Judge dismisses King Soopers’ lawsuit against UFCW Local 7
Packaging
Materials, regulation and design at the point of sale.
PackagingGreif, Charter Next Generation, McKinley announced closures in September
Henkel also updated its plans for closing an adhesives manufacturing facility in Wisconsin.
PackagingGerresheimer selling certain assets to private equity
PackagingGraphic Packaging introduces inaugural URB product
PackagingIneos Styrolution ending Illinois polystyrene production
PackagingPackaging innovations: Lytt’s lit containers, Duni’s paper is the new black
PackagingClearwater Paper reduces production, employees at Arkansas mill
Packaging