Food Industry Executive

Your costs are rising in diesel, packaging, and freight, but the food price data your buyer tracks shows little to no increase. Learn how an index-linked price clause gives you both the same number to check.

This week: McCormick raised its FY2026 inflation forecast to as much as 7% as upstream cost pressures intensified across the supply chain. And American confidence in grocery food safety hit a record low following the largest Cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history.

Approval isn't funding. Most big food companies underspent their 2025 capital budgets. Here's how to build a plant project that survives mid-year cuts.

The Input Cost Index rose this week, impacted by ISM prices, a late harvest, and Kansas beef plant disruptions. Get the full breakdown.

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.