Food Industry Executive

Our Input Cost Index fell for another week, but retail beef prices barely budged despite expanded duty-free imports. Get the full breakdown.

Most food manufacturers know succession planning is important, but few see it as a strategy. Learn how to spot true risk, tell a real successor from a name on a list, and build a bench for the company you're becoming, not the one you left behind.

The headline food inflation rate has slowed, but that's not what manufacturers are paying. This week's Brief covers the upstream signals to watch, a divide in how big food is allocating capital, and the regulatory development five major CPGs just disclosed to investors.

Food manufacturing capacity utilization fell to its lowest level since 2021 in August, though production itself held up fine. The empty space came from somewhere else, and the reason most plants gave for running below capability isn't the one the industry has spent five years talking about.

Sponsored by QAD The traditional supply chain model you've been using your whole career might be why you can't see the risks.  "Stop Calling It a...

Every platform looks identical in a demo. You don't see its shortcomings till 11 PM when the internet drops mid-run, or when the renewal invoice drops with three new line items. This article lays out the questions to ask before you sign anything.

The FIE Input Cost Index fell for the third straight week. But it's still sitting in High Pressure territory, where it's been since we...