Food Industry Executive

By Paddy McNamara, host of 30 Food Safety and CEO of Allera Key takeaways: Labor savings are just the start. Most companies justify FSQA digitization...

Short pays and billbacks are symptoms. The real damage starts upstream — in disconnected pricing systems, manual order entry, and contract data that drifts before anyone catches it. Drew Shields of iTradeNetwork breaks down where the leaks begin and what it takes to stop them.

You can have the right initiative, the right timing, and the right vendor and still lose the budget conversation. Not because the project isn't worth funding, but because the proposal doesn't answer the questions your CFO uses to evaluate capital requests. Here's what those questions look like and what you need to prepare before you're in the room.

Sustainability is showing up in purchasing decisions, investor conversations, and regulatory pipelines. JBT Marel's Leigh Ann Johnston explains where the real ROI is, what processors underestimate, and how to build credible reporting from the inside out.

West Michigan just absorbed over $1.2 billion in protein manufacturing investment in a single day. Urea prices are up 30% and the food inflation clock is already running. Hormel and UNFI went live with enterprise AI platforms. PepsiCo killed a fifth of its US portfolio. Mars is building out its $36B snacking empire in Chicago. Here's what food and beverage executives need to know this week.

From PepsiCo to Post Holdings, these 10 manufacturers run some of the broadest food and beverage portfolios in the U.S. Here's what their strategies reveal about managing complexity at scale.

The FDA's Food Traceability Rule deadline is now 2028. Learn how food companies can prepare for compliance using modern traceability technology like RAIN RFID.