11/14/2008
The FDA role in ensuring food safety in the Obama administration will likely expand, according to a recent AP story. A senior campaign advisor is quoted as saying “He (President-elect Barack Obama) thinks this is a fundamental role of government to ensure that people's food is safe, and he has been concerned that we are not in a position to ensure that.” Among the possibilities: a tracing ...
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11/10/2008
In the food industry, as elsewhere, change may be constant, but a lack of clear communication may cause resistance if not outright rejection. A few words of advice have been offered by Keena D. Lykins, a public relations senior account supervisor at Rhea + Kaiser Marketing Communications, based on her experience with various food and ingredient clients. –Lynn A. KuntzChocolate Wars ...
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11/04/2008
Despite the fall in fuel prices, the financial effects of U.S. biofuels policy still sends destructive waves surging throughout the food industry. Sherrie Rosenblatt, vice president of marketing and communications, National Turkey Federation, makes a case why current government ethanol policy and the planned bailout for ethanol plants is harmful to the food industry, consumers and the nation. ...
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10/29/2008
Warren Buffett wisely said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” That’s particularly true in the area of food safety, as a new study released today by New York–based Deloitte LLC confirms.The survey, “Food and Product Safety and Its Effect on Consumer Buying Habits,” finds that, ...
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10/21/2008
Once you wade past the 101 incarnations of salsa and jam, the specialty foods segment is a fertile field for new product inspiration. While the numbers are likely to drift with the tides of economy (“2008 is a bit of a challenging year,” admits the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, NASFT), sales of specialty food products to 2007 from 2005 rose 19% vs. 5.4% for all foods ...
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10/14/2008
As food and beverage manufacturers and retailers search for growth areas during uncertain economic times, they are taking a closer look at private label products. For some, private label raises the hideous specter of those unappetizing black-and-white-labeled bargain brands of the early ‘80s. Depending on how the economy sorts itself out, these plain Jane products may yet make a comeback, but ...
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10/06/2008
The state of the economy over the last several weeks has been a serious concern to Democrats and Republicans, business owners and workers, retirees and students―in fact just about everyone. I won’t even hazard a guess whether last week’s multibillion-dollar bailout...err...recovery plan will take us, since Econ 101 does not qualify me as a monetary dilettante, let alone an expert.
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