Pepperidge Farm built on earlier projects and solid in-house engineering to construct a powerhouse bakery.

Connecticut's most brutal winter in memory was a constant threat to derail the scheduled completion of Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, Conn., project.

In the case of Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, Conn., bakery, ROI was just the first half of the equation.

Food and beverage companies are getting hooked on the sales growth in supercenters and club stores, and that requires some adjustments in manufacturing practices.

Since its construction six years ago, Beef Products Inc.'s South Sioux City plant has undergone one improvement and expansion after another.

As the recent green-onion infections make clear, food safety practices need to be in place in every area of food and beverage processing.

While job insecurity and modest pay hikes characterized most of America's labor market in the last year, food industry professionals report respectable salary boosts and rising levels of job security.

Cooperation is becoming as common as competition among the industry's leading corporations.

While the growth rate in plant improvements is slowing, food companies are still enjoying a positive manufacturing environment.

The upside to the capital markets' disarray is the downside in the production disruption of mergers and acquisitions.