Procter & Gamble supplies food formulators with innovative foodservice ideas and resources, such as packaging, distribution, consumer research methods, trademark licensing and technology research. Popular food brands developed by P&G include Pringles, and pet foods such as Eukanuba and Iams. In addition, Procter & Gamble also supply the ingredient olestra.
Diamond Foods announced today its CEO Michael Mendes and CFO Steven Neil were put on administrative leave and the snack maker will have to restate financial results for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 after the audit committee of its board of directors determined improper ...More
Diamond Foods Inc. has signed a $2.35-billion definitive agreement to merge the Pringles® line of snacks from Procter & Gamble Co. The deal would more than triple the size of Diamond's snack business and make it the second-largest global snack company. ...More
Industry leaders including Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical Co., Colgate-Palmolive, DuPont, Kellogg Co. and Procter & Gamble have formed a new sustainable packaging trade organization to create environmentally- and economically-sound packaging initiatives. ...More
Advertising Age is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week began issuing subpoenas to 48 food companies that market food to children or teenagers. The 2010 subpoenas were sent as a “follow-up to measure the effects that self-regulation has had over the ...More
Coupons have considerable influence over retailer and brand selection, with 60 percent of shoppers looking for coupons before entering a store, according to a new shopper experience study by The Integer Group® and M/A/R/C® Research. ...More
The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s report card rating 128 companies’ policies with regard to food marketing aimed at children gave 75 percent of the companies an F for having weak policies or for failing to have any policies. ...More
U.S. food companies, along with a host of international relief organizations, are responding to the devastation caused by the Jan. 12 deadly 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti. ...More
Supplyside west 2009 trade show in Las Vegas broke both exhibit hall and attendance records, bucking the current declining trend for most trade shows. Nearly 8,300 industry executives and 1,128 booths from global dietary supplement, food and beverage, and cosmeceutical ...More
CINCINNATI—The Procter & Gamble Company has reached a settlement with Kraft Foods regarding P&G patents to plastic packaging for roast and ground coffee. The settlement covers pending cases related to this matter between P&G and Kraft Foods. The patents protect ...More
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