Just before this issue of Food Engineering hit the printing press, the food and beverage manufacturing community awoke one morning to hear the news that Kraft and Heinz are merging to form The Kraft Heinz Company. When completed later this year, the merger will create one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world.
When the two leading food manufacturers join forces, synergistic cost savings from the merger will likely be good news for investors but potentially bad news for staff members whose jobs will be lost due redundancy or the inevitable plant closings.