At present the food and agriculture sector is struggling in an operating environment characterised by slow growth, soft demand and ample supply, a combination that's challenging business confidence. Yet the sector has a bright future, asserts Rabobank in a new report.
...Unilever has announced the launch of The Unilever Foundry, a platform that the company says looks to foster relationships with entrepreneurs, start-ups - a single entry-point for innovators seeking to partner with Unilever....
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...
Shoprite chief executive Whitey Basson has moved beyond blaming the usual suspects of unions and labour legislation for South Africa’s economic woes and has lashed out at the “declining” manufacturing sector for its lack of innovation and competitiveness....
Symrise South Africa, the local arm of the giant German flavour multinational, has officially opened a new customer innovation centre at its Isando, Jo'burg, premises. The centre will operate as an R&D hub for Symrise's team of flavourists and product developers, and as a platform...
The 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has presented four companies with the 2013 IFT Food Expo Innovation Awards. The winners are Glanbia Nutritionals, NIZO Food Research, PerkinElmer and Tate & Lyle. ...
Bob Gamgort is the CEO of Pinnacle Foods, a leading American FMCG food marketer whose portfolio includes Birds Eye, Duncan Hines and Vlasic, brands that can be found in nearly 85 percent of US homes. He was interviewed by NielsenWire as part of...
Got innovation? Just about every company says it does, but the term has begun to lose meaning...
In the United States, the entrepreneur's dream is to get on the shelves of Walmart stores across the country. With one deal, personal fortunes are made and brilliant success stories are written. This dream has come true for a trio of startup brands that...
PepsiCo announced a formal partnership last year with the Spanish gastronomic genius, whose restaurant El Bulli in Spain (now closed) was named best in the world five times by Restaurant Magazine, to help it not only develop flavours and techniques but...
Creating New Foods: The Product Developer's Guide – the Web Edition, is a FREE web-based e-book that will be of value to all involved in any aspect of new product development. This is an initiative of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology...
Innovation isn’t a supernatural event, a preordained occurrence that only happens to certain people. And great innovators don’t go from zero-to-great in a heartbeat. More often than not, they stand on the shoulders of giants, see things a little bit differently, or benefit...
"The willingness – or perhaps the ability – to envision the new and then create it is all-too-rare in the food and beverage industries. Marketers, often highly risk-averse, fear doing anything that cannot be justified by consumer research...