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[eBook] Winning the Shelf Playbook
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Why POS Data Alone Won’t Win You Shelf Space in 2026
Retail buyers aren’t asking what sold. They’re asking why it will keep selling. And in 2026, point-of-sale data alone is a lagging indicator.
Tastewise’s Winning the Shelf in 2026 playbook reveals how brands...
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[eBook] Winning the Shelf Playbook
Sponsored by Tastewise
Why POS Data Alone Won’t Win You Shelf Space in 2026
Retail buyers aren’t asking what sold. They’re asking why it will keep selling. And in 2026, point-of-sale data alone is a lagging...
Food Exec Brief: Cocoa Relief, Regulatory Storm, and the GLP-1 Reckoning
This week's Food Exec Brief covers the cocoa price collapse creating confectionery opportunity/uncertainty, a major regulatory week with FDA leadership/staffing issues and USDA proposing faster line speeds, and CPG giants racing to reformulate as...
How to Stop Accepting Plant-Floor Margin Leakage as “Just the Cost of Doing Business”:...
Margin isn't lost on the shelf, but on the plant floor. That's the central argument Tim Cook has been making to food manufacturing executives for years, and it's one that increasingly hard-to-ignore data is...
Why the “Healthy” Label Deadline Is a Supply Chain Problem: A Q&A With David...
The FDA's updated definition of "healthy" officially took effect in February 2025, giving food manufacturers until 2028 to achieve full compliance. But for many brands, the clock is already running out.
What began as a...
How to Connect Legacy Systems Without Halting Production
Key takeaways:
Most food manufacturers don't need to replace their older systems to modernize. Connecting them to newer tools through phased integration tends to be faster, less disruptive, and more cost-effective than starting over.
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[Webinar] The Invisible Plant Tax: Why Proactive, Collaborative Execution Drives Food Safety and Performance
Sponsored by SafetyChain Software
Food and beverage manufacturers have more digital tools and data than ever — yet plants still rely on reactive effort and manual coordination to protect food safety and performance. The issue...
How AI Is Improving Communications in Food Manufacturing
By Kevin Turpin, CEO of Weavix
It's mid-shift on a Thursday when a line worker notices something wrong. Pastries coming off the conveyor have a strange, off-color streak that shouldn't be there. Something is wrong,...