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Bob Weeks began his publishing career in the early 1970's and served in several different capacities with Bill Communications and Freed Crown Lee Publishing before becoming Publisher of Dairy Foods and Prepared Foods magazines at Gorman Publishing. In 1991 he set out on his own, establishing Weeks Publishing Company with the successful launch of Food Product Design Magazine which subsequently became and remains today the preeminent food development and R&D focused publication/information source. Bob continued as Publisher of Food Product Design as well as Culinology magazine after being acquired by Phoenix-based Virgo Publishing LLC. in 2005. His 23 years in food publishing have established Bob as one of the foremost thought leaders in the food industry.

05/26/2009

Sweet Innovations

The ALL CANDY EXPO recently conducted its yearly event in Chicago to display the latest in sweet innovations. The show did not disappoint those looking for new wrinkles in confections, some pretty neat and some not so cool.
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05/18/2009

It's All About Commitment

Food Product Design launched a new, user-friendly website.
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04/09/2009

What's Next?

   Anyone who has faithfully read my Publisher's Page surely knows that my three major food groups could be identified as peanut butter, pistachio nuts, and Oreo cookies.   It should therefore not come as a big surprise that I'm feeling a little under seige right now. First we were told to stop eating peanut butter due to the threat of salmonella.  They ...
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03/30/2009

Tailoring Your Price Points

      I'm one of those dinosaurs who still reads three or four newspapers every day.  My list includes the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune ( although its' recent redesign has me thinking about looking elsewhere ) and the NY Times.  Granted, I don't read them all cover to cover, but I find each has its' strengths and I don't feel fully ...
02/25/2009

Going Pro-active for PB

      After taking a beating in the world of media reporting, the National Peanut Board is taking some very high-profile steps to counteract all the negative publicity that has cast doubt in consumer minds as to the safety of products containing peanuts or peanut ingredients. Full page ads in a variety of media outlets are alerting people to upcoming events. The ...
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02/19/2009

Death of a Food Product Icon

      Campbell Soup has announced it is reformulating one of its' longstanding brand franchises...... tomato soup! Why would they take this step when their traditional product consistently ranks in the top ten of grocery items purchased in the U.S. every week?  Don't they remember what happened to New Coke?      After extensive consumer ...
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02/02/2009

Kettles and Pots

      I remember when I was a child and would be tempted to tattle to my mom on one of my siblings, I would always hesitate for fear that I would be subjected to the admonishment..... "You're like the kettle calling the pot black".  As I have been following the most recent peanut product recall debacle effecting our U.S. food industry, I'm feeling like my mom's ...
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