Food Industry Executive

Nine months of manufacturing growth. A billion-dollar bet on chicken. And a state law that just created a certification program for something the federal government hasn't defined yet.

Your ERP knows what shipped. Your quality platform knows what failed. Neither one knows what the other is doing, and closing that gap takes more than a dashboard. This piece breaks down the five capabilities that separate a real data strategy from vendor marketing language.

Q3 traded megadeals for portfolio moves. Protein buyers paid for processing capacity, sellers shed assets to pay down debt, and consolidation reached the grocery shelf and the testing lab. Here's what the quarter's biggest deals mean for your customers, suppliers, and labs.

Sponsored by Aptean Same pressures, same spending, different outcomes Most food and beverage companies are investing in AI, but far fewer are seeing returns. The difference...

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.