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Baking with flour at home
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With more home baking, Ardent Mills adds lines for retail flour packages

Company quickly adjusted to ensure flour available during pandemic; investments part of long-term retail growth plan
Rose Shilling
Rose Shilling
August 26, 2020

Ardent Mills is growing its retail flour operations long-term, adding and upgrading lines for consumer-sized packages that are in demand as more people bake at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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2020 Top 100 Food & Beverage Companies
2020 Top 100

The 2020 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies

Top 5 largest food and beverage companies stay the same
Casey Laughman
Casey Laughman
August 21, 2020
Although the top 5 companies stayed the same, there was extensive movement throughout Food Engineering’s 2020 list of the Top 100 food and beverage companies.
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PetShop.co.uk cofounder Adam Taylor
Pet Food

Pet food e-commerce boom has major influence on manufacturers' operations

Online shoppers' preferences lead to faster product development and more direct-to-consumer shipping of dog and cat food
Rose Shilling
Rose Shilling
August 14, 2020
Skyrocketing online shopping for pet food is changing significant parts of how manufacturers operate.
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pet food shoppers
Pet Food

Packaging trends in pet food production

Packaging is king in the growing market for premium dog and cat food
Rose Shilling
Rose Shilling
May 28, 2020
Packaging has a key role in the pet food industry’s robust growth, helping showcase quality, safety and sustainability, especially for premium products.
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consumer demand shift during the COVID-19 pandemic

How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting consumer demand

April 1, 2020
Consumer demand is shifting as consumers adapt to stay at home and social distancing policies during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Convenience stores food sales
Coronavirus

Convenience stores sell more food during outbreak

About half of stores say grocery sales have increased
Rose Shilling
Rose Shilling
April 1, 2020

People are taking home more grocery staples from convenience stores during the pandemic, a shift from the businesses’ heavy reliance on coffee, chips, candy and other products consumed within an hour.


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PACK EXPO

5 trends that are driving packaging updates

Sean Riley
February 18, 2020
Consumer desires and modern lifestyles continue to facilitate a shift in how people perceive food, according to "Trends and Advances in Food Packaging and Processing" from PMMI.
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e-commerce packaging
Packaging

Keeping up with the e-commerce expansion

Tom Egan Headshot.jpg
Tom Egan , PMMI
January 24, 2020

As consumers demand greater convenience, e-commerce sales continue to rise. According to the 2019 Internet Retailer Top 1000 Report, consumers spent $517.36 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2018, up from $449.88 billion spent the year prior. Even when the final sales takes place in a store rather than online, the first step to most purchase decisions starts at the search bar.


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Sustainable packaging
Packaging

What’s in your sustainability toolkit?

Key considerations for brands and OEMs implementing eco-friendly packaging solutions
Jorge Izquierdo
Jorge Izquierdo
January 23, 2020
The move toward sustainable practices, products and materials is no longer on the horizon but ever-present.
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default nutrition label

Study reveals most consumers think food labels are misleading

This study found that 33% consider transparency from a brand as an extremely important factor when purchasing food products.
November 4, 2019
Half of Americans (53%) feel like food labels are sometimes misleading, according to research presented by Crispy Green, Inc., Fairfield, N.J.
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