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Unilever Separates Its Ice Cream Business to Accelerate Growth

With its Growth Action Plan announced last fall, the CPG giant aims to focus on doing fewer things, better. The company also plans to lay off 7,500 workers.

March 20, 2024

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Constellation Brands Appoints New Leader of Wine & Spirits Division

Sam Glaetzer, who has close to 30 years of experience in the wine and spirits industry, takes over in a position that Robert Hanson vacated at the end of February.

March 11, 2024

Sam Glaetzer is the new head of Constellation Brands' Wine & Spirits Division.

Walmart Planning New Milk Processing Facility in Texas

The plant in Robinson, Texas, is expected to employ 400 people and will be Walmart's third owned-and-operated milk processing facility in the U.S.

March 7, 2024

Walmart Milk Plant Texas

Del Monte Foods Closes 2 More Plants

Though sales of canned foods spiked during the pandemic, plants in Washington and Wisconsin will close to help adjust to consumers’ return to pre-COVID habits.

March 6, 2024

Kraft Heinz Rolls Out Plant-Based Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs and Sausages

This is Oscar Mayer's first foray into plant-based meats, the result of a collaboration between Kraft Heinz and NotCo.

March 6, 2024

Oscar Mayer plant based hot dogs sausages

Global Processed and Frozen Fruits Market Forecast at $71 Billion by 2030

New study says North America is the top market for processed and frozen fruit, with Asia-Pacific predicted as the fastest growing in coming years.

March 6, 2024

Frozen fruit market sales

Oatly Expands Product Lineup With Launch of 4 Flavored Oatmilk Creamers

The new flavors debut at a time when plant-based creamers are up 13% in dollar sales and 9% in unit sales, respectively, over the past 52 weeks.

February 28, 2024

Flavored Oatmilk Creamers Oatly

Maple Leaf Foods Combines Meat and Plant Protein Businesses, Promotes 2 Executives

The moves are part of a company-wide refresh under a five-point plan called the Blueprint.

February 27, 2024

U.S. Department of Labor Requests Injunction to Stop Company From Employing Minors in Meat Plants

The motion seeks to stop Fayette Janitorial Service from employing minors to clean meat facilities nationwide, while the DOL continues to investigate the Tennessee-based company.

February 23, 2024

Chicken Factory

Beyond Meat Changes Recipe With Shift to Avocado Oil, Lowering Saturated Fat

The reformulation is part of the company's new Beyond IV platform, marking the fourth generation of its Beyond Burger and Beyond Beef products.

February 21, 2024

Avocado Oil Beyond Burger

19th-Century Chocolate Factory Unearthed in Spain

Once a large medieval manor, the building became the site of Clemente Guardia, a chocolatier featured in Barcelona’s 1888 World’s Fair.

February 20, 2024

Several artifacts have been recovered in relation to the chocolate factory, including the lead plates that would have been used to make Clemente Guardia’s chocolate labels.

Upside Foods Puts Cultivated Meat Plant Construction on Hold

Plans to build a $140 million cell-cultured meat plant near Chicago were paused to focus on expanding the company's existing Bay area facility.

February 15, 2024

Cultivated Meat Upside Foods Plant Paused

The Food Industry Needs to Do Better

Accountability is the word that keeps coming to mind as more news items cross our desks regarding child and prison labor, and food adulterations.

February 15, 2024

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