With the holidays upon us, we give you a profile of another “fabulous” food plant, as we like to call them, this time Bell & Evans. The company has seen such success and growing demand for its organic poultry since 2005 when its last state-of-the-art plant was completed that an entirely new facility was built for further processing and packaging.
The demand for organic just keeps rising and shows no stopping. Take the recent report from The Organic Trade Association that found more than five in 10 organic buyers are Millennials, who are ages 18-34. And guess what—the Millennials are having families. And guess what else—the Millennials are buying organic for their kids. Yes, you can see where this trend is going. Major food manufacturers aren’t missing this: Danone acquired WhiteWave Foods in the last year, and General Mills says it is now the third-largest natural and organic food producer in the US.