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Study reveals parents' purchase drivers when buying for kids

Overall, parents were not happy with the healthfullness of options in food and beverage categories popular with kids.

Shane O'Halloran

July 15, 2013

Overall, parents were not happy with the healthfullness of options in food and beverage categories popular with kids.

Canned foods stocked in 98 percent of American households

A new survey reveals the shelf-stable standby has endured.

Shane O'Halloran

July 12, 2013

A new survey reveals the shelf-stable standby has endured.

More information helps everyone make better-informed manufacturing decisions

The food and beverage manufacturing industry has become increasingly complex over the past few years.

Joyce Fassl

July 3, 2013

Complexity makes it difficult to grasp the interconnectivity of all of current industry challenges to begin to form solutions.

Most Americans uninformed about healthy summer eating choices

Most were unaware of recommended fiber consumption levels.

Shane O'Halloran

June 26, 2013

Most were unaware of recommended fiber consumption levels.

TECH FLASH

Are you playing by the new rules of customer engagement?

Thanks to a new model, food and beverage sales grew in 2012 while other consumer packaged goods categories were down.

Shane O'Halloran

June 26, 2013

Top companies are identifying and engaging with customers and focusing on innovation that directly reaches them.

TECH FLASH

Women see little role for federal government in guiding product choices or healthy decisions

New survey reveals women feel negatively about government attempts to encourage healthy eating.

Shane O'Halloran

June 26, 2013

Distrust of the media is even more prevalent than distrust of the government.

As consumers seek to buy local, specialty foods markets grow

Demand for geographic and other information about fresh foods hasn’t decreased in a down economy.

Shane O'Halloran

June 26, 2013

Unless they know exactly where it was grown, many consumers turn their nose up at a fresh fruit or vegetable.https://admin-foodengineeringmag.epublishing.com/admin/article/general/load?articleId=90940#

TECH FLASH

Large firms best positioned to improve profit margins

As US consumers become more health conscious, large companies are able to offer new products at increased prices.

Shane O'Halloran

June 12, 2013

Smaller competitors often lack the consumer recognition that allows premium pricing.

Biodegradable packaging

June 11, 2013

Ampac BioFlex Pack packaging is a fully biodegradable laminate for dry product packaging applications including dry cereal or grains, tea and coffee products, and powders or tablets.