3G Capital burst onto the business scene a decade ago when it spent billions to buy America’s old-school food companies, including Heinz and Burger King, and then relentlessly cut costs, including mass layoffs, to create efficient production machines.
Barry Calpino signed up at Mondelez in 2015 to create an entirely new snack brand he named Véa, a recognition by the company that there are only so many flavours of Oreo cookies and boxes of Ritz crackers people are going to buy. But now he's quit....
Use the word "technology" in a discussion about cellphones, motor cars, manufacturing, education – every subject you can think of – and you get universal appreciation. Use the word in reference to food and beverages, and half the population will turn on you. This article...
Big Food has become “big” as a result of a terrific success: their traditional marketing departments have helped generate billions in profits. But relying on one approach to marketing has left these players exposed in today’s fast-moving climate, argues...
The history of artificial sweeteners is a history of public neuroses, bad science, paranoid distrust of corporations and regulatory failure. It plays to our fear of what we don’t understand, absurd risk-aversion on the part of regulators and the political ...
Global food and drink companies are using techniques pioneered by the tobacco industry to undermine public-health policies designed to combat obesity, diabetes and alcohol-related illnesses, a new study claims. [Click pic to enlarge]
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Food-related government intervention is trotted out all the time by food crusaders everywhere. But before we get to those interventions, maybe we should ask how we got here in the first place. [Lovely commentary from Rob Lyons, deputy editor of spiked-online.com, one of...
The PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, published over the past three weeks, "aims to examine and stimulate debate about the activities and influence of the food industry in global health". The series includes critical perspectives from around the world, including an...
Multinational food corporations have a growing influence on the health of people around the world, including obesity, and their actions need greater scrutiny, according to an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS). The editorial kicks off the journal’s three-week series...
The food giant has announced that Kraft chairman and CEO, Irene Rosenfeld, will head the as-yet unnamed world-wide $31-billion snacks business, and Anthony Vernon, executive vice president and president of Kraft North America, will head the smaller $17-billion and slower-growing North American...