Food Industry Executive

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.

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...