Sentences with phrase «many big food»

The deal, which would see the combined group leapfrog Tesco to become Britain's biggest food retailer, sent shares in Sainsbury's up 17 percent by 1200 GMT and on course for their biggest one - day gain since 1983, Thomson Reuters data showed.

The deal, which would see the combined group leapfrog Tesco to become Britain's biggest food retailer, sent shares in Sainsbury's up 17...

According to Black Tap's chef Joe Isidori, Instagram has made Black Tap into one of the biggest food trends of this year.

Mast Brothers declined to disclose the size, though it said no Big Food makers participated.

Big Food long ago went global, but market share can depend on how well those companies pretend to be local.

BIG FOOD: Campbell Soup paid $ 700 million to acquire a soup company called Pacific Foods in a move toward more natural and organic - focused products.

For big food processors like Maple Leaf, the only way to offer that and still make a profit is by consolidating into big, modern plants, so you can benefit from scale and keep up with the pack, because, Grier warns, not doing so would guarantee failure.

While Big Food VC arms seem trendy, some on Wall Street complain that they are a waste of time.

VC arms are a trendy way for Big Food — multibillion - dollar legacy players like Tyson — to participate in disruptive food startups.

Today's guest column is a doubleheader: In part one, Fortune writer John Kell looks into why Big Food wants to play the VC game; in part two, Fortune writer Jen Wieczner breaks down the biggest IPO of the year: Snap Inc..

Prior to any meeting [with big food companies], I was so nervous that they're assholes, better than us, arrogant, they're going to eat us, they want me fired.

Beezer Clarkson and Nino Marakovic on exits, John Kell on big food M&A, Jen Wieczner on the Snap IPO, Mark Suster on the state of VC investing, Stephen Gandel on Trump and private equity, Robert Hackett on cybersecurity and the Flaming Lips, Michal Lev - Ram on the death of Twitter, Matt Heimer on cosmetics and beer M&A, and Leigh Gallagher on Airbnb.

Big Food companies have lost share to upstart brands and have struggled to adapt to a move away from sugary soft drinks.

Cheerios, Quaker Oats, Diet Pepsi and other brands have all seen makeovers as Big Food aims to make those decades - old brands compelling, especially to younger millennial shoppers.

The nation's leading food and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery store.

The cost - cutting comes as Big Food manufacturers have found their legacy brands pressuring by a consumer trend toward foods and drinks they deem healthier, a trend executives say will only accelerate over time.

Coke's move to cut jobs comes as many major food and beverage manufacturers — a group collectively known as «Big Food» — have cut thousands of jobs in a bid to trim costs and restructure their operations.

The soft first - quarter results are the latest challenge that Big Food must confront: Larger food and beverage manufacturers have faced tough growth prospects for many of their legacy brands as consumers tilt toward healthier fare and show more support for startup brands.

Pressure on Big Food is increasing, and a lower corporate tax rate may make a company breakup cheaper.

That doesn't always mean that the foods made by big food conglomerates like Campbell Soup or PepsiCo always need to be 100 % health focused.

What Shaich believes he sees in the market — and many agree with him — is that there's great distrust in Big Food brands and an appetite for disruption, which comes in the form of startups and newer restaurant concepts.

On the other end of the spectrum, Big Food companies like PepsiCo and Campbell Soup are cleaning up their ingredient lists, launching new healthier products, and investing in food startups to participate in the trend away from big brands.

Kraft Heinz and Kellogg are the latest Big Food manufacturers to blame soft sales in the United States on an industrywide slowdown in demand for packaged foods.

Big Food makers Kraft Heinz and Kellogg both said delayed tax returns partly hurt U.S. sales in the first quarter of 2017.

Investments in smaller, startup brands help ConAgra and rival Big Food manufacturers better address those trends.

During the last eight years, the Obama administration pursued aggressive food labeling policies to the chagrin of much of big food and big agriculture.

Big Food manufacturers have increasingly announced either full takeovers of startup brands, or in more recent months, have set up venture capital arms to invest in a slew of smaller brands with an option to eventually acquire some of those brands later (if they become successful hits on grocery store aisles).

Not coincidentally, the United States is both the most prosperous country in the world and its biggest food producer.

In recent years Campbell and its Big Food brethren have gobbled up smaller natural food upstarts to respond to consumers who are eschewing processed fare.

For example, ConAgra's Banquet frozen meal line is changing several recipes to use real cheese and real butter and other big food companies such as Kraft Heinz, Campbell Soup, General Mills, Kellogg, Unilever and Hershey are among others with initiatives in various stages to reformulate some classics.

A third conveyed what her industry feared would be the largest casualty of the public's «mounting distrust of Big Food» — that shoppers would turn away from them for good.

Perhaps more frightening for Big Food, shoppers are doing something else as well: They're skipping the middle aisles altogether.

Big Food is under attack from Startup Granola.

One of the more candid executives when it comes to addressing Big Food's woes, Morrison tells Fortune that she knew she had to «shift the center of gravity at Campbell» when she took over the company in 2011.

One thing is clear: Big Food is suddenly looking like an underdog.

And that's a marketing wedge that Big Food's rivals are only happy to exploit.

Earlier this month Fortune reported that 17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailer had left their perches — or announced their intention to — in the last year and a half.

And consumers aren't fooled when big food companies cobble together «healthier» choices that contain a laundry list of unpronounceable ingredients.

That said, pressure on Big Food is at an historic level, as seen by the rapid pace of industry deal making already this year.

A bill making its way through the House of Representatives and heavily backed by Big Food would create a voluntary national labeling standard, while preventing states from mandating labeling on their own.

Wrote Credit Suisse in a late - April report on Nestlé: «We and investors are about to find out whether the biggest food company can turn around one of the largest categories in «Big Food.»»

Morrison acknowledges consumers» mistrust of Big Food and she describes that she and her company are taking to win back customer allegiance.

Kessler, who took on Big Tobacco in his FDA tenure, directs his glare to big food companies.

Big Food makers are snapping up startups in order to join the fray: Hershey (hsy) and Slim Jim maker ConAgra (cag) recently acquired Krave and Duke's Meat Snacks, respectively.

In the U.K., the biggest food retailer Tesco announced Tuesday it will pay a fine of # 129 million ($ 162 million) to settle a probe over a 2014 profit overstatement.

For Big Food makers like Tyson, a minority stake is a way to see how a brand like Beyond Meat — which is already available in over 11,000 stores — develops without making too big of a financial commitment.

But the opposite has happened with meat nouveau: Big Food's backing has helped validate the burgeoning industry.

In one of the stranger ironies, what has given real credence to the alt - meat realm is Big Food's arrival on the scene.

A provocative conversation with two leaders of the Big Food pack.

Big food companies from Nestle to Taco Bell were axing artificial ingredients from their products left and right as consumers demanded «natural» foods, but would the changes affect the taste of the iconic blue box, a product that many Americans have grown up on?