Partner Series—Beverages and Beyond: Trends & Innovations in Flavors, Applications and Concept Delivery

Food Product Design Partner Series  

Innovation is key in the rapidly shifting beverage market, especially when it comes to flavors. In fact, flavors introduced in the beverage market often herald emerging flavors for the entire food industry.

And it’s not just consumer preferences that are changing, but the nature of the beverages themselves. Both of these factors can make flavoring drinks for maximum appeal seem daunting. This presentation will pinpoint flavor hotspots for beverages and identify other applications where these types of flavors are likely to expand. It addresses how to streamline the product development process by exploring current trends in flavors both in retail alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in the US, and identify emerging flavors in foodservice beverages, as well as beverage flavor trends from around the world. WILD’s trend and flavor experts will discuss how flavors can best be selected and applied to various beverage formats, with a look to the future of flavor-concept delivery.

Speakers:

Jessica Jones-Dille, Industry Trend Manager at WILD Flavors, Inc. specializes in developing market strategies focused on capturing trend-driven food and beverage solutions.  She leads WILD’s cross-functional N.E.X.T.™ Team in identifying emerging trends and determining their impact on the food and beverage industry. In addition, Jones-Dille manages WILD’s market research functions and directs product and concept development ideation for industry events, tradeshows, and strategic customer presentations.  She works with both food and beverage customers in creating, developing, and supporting their brands with innovative flavor, color, ingredient systems, and health ingredient technologies. Jones-Dille has a bachelor’s degree in marketing as well as a master’s degree in business administration.  She is a frequent speaker at industry functions and contributes regularly to trade journals.

 

Susan Kidwell, Senior Manager and Certified Flavorist at WILD Flavors, Inc. manages the talents of the Flavor Creations team to successfully generate new business for WILD Flavors, Inc.  In addition, Susan plays a strategic role in the implementation of cross-functional teams within the organization.  Kidwell promotes teamwork within Flavor Creations, Food and Beverage applications, to Create Great Taste in flavors and turnkey product prototypes for WILD’s customers. Kidwell has a Master’s degree in organizational management and is currently pursing a second Master’s in Business Administration. 

 

 

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