Food Industry Executive

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The FIE Input Cost Index fell for the third straight week. But it's still sitting in High Pressure territory, where it's been since we...

Major food leaders are restructuring as Coca-Cola invests $10B in US manufacturing. GLP-1 adoption reached 11% of US adults, lowering grocery spending and risking $73B in food brand value. Meanwhile, despite a 1.3% headline food inflation rate, input costs like diesel (up 77.8%) and grains (up 17.7%) are surging alongside growing El Niño risks.

Food manufacturing averaged 4.0 hours of weekly overtime per production worker in 2025, above the manufacturing average and rising. That premium costs roughly $2,570 per worker a year, and absence is one of three causes within that number. BLS data puts three-quarters of manufacturing absence down to illness and injury.

BJ's is cutting roughly 20% of its club assortment, while Kroger adds about 870 private label items. Volume is flat, private label now has 24% of food and beverage dollars, and your next category review will decide which of your SKUs stays on the shelf.

California, Oregon, and Colorado now share the same PRO, but not the same rules. Here's the order US food manufacturers should work through packaging EPR in, starting with the question most companies get wrong first: who's actually the producer?

Grain costs on the FIE Input Cost Index are one point from a downgrade, while Tyson's latest guidance shows the real cost of the cattle shortage. Get the breakdown on the FIE Input Cost Index.