Sentences with phrase «at food firms»

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Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

A VC firm started by OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has closed its second fund at $ 180 million to invest in food tech startups.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

«Soylent is a community of people who are enthusiastic about using science to improve food and nutrition,» Chris Dixon, who works at venture - capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a 2015 blog post after the firm invested $ 20 million in Soylent.

Looking at individual stocks, shares of French food group Danone were over 1.5 percent higher on Monday after the New York Post reported that the firm could be a takeover target.

Amy Price, senior food and drink analyst at market research firm Mintel, told CNBC via email: «The deterioration in the exchange rate will put upward pressure on prices of imported goods, including wine.

Also in the U.K., Reckitt Benckiser, the British consumer goods firm, is looking at a possible sale of its foods business to support its $ 16.6 billion takeover of baby food maker Mead Johnson.

«Everyone's got a health message out there these days,» says Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry analyst at market research firm the NPD Group.

Schwartz, a partner at 3G who joined as CFO in 2010 when the private equity firm acquired a majority stake in the fast - food giant.

(Reuters)-- Chinese Internet company Meituan - Dianping, akin to a mix of Yelp, GroupOn and food delivery, said on Tuesday its latest funding round raised over $ 3.3 billion, valuing the firm at more than $ 18 billion.

«Forty - eight percent of dinner meals purchased from a restaurant today are eaten at home,» says David Portalatin, a food industry analyst at research firm NPD.

«If you looked at the entire American diet 10 years ago, and the diet today, the thing that has increased most is this product called yogurt,» says Harry Balzer, the chief food analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

But if we look at the fastest - growing firms in recent years as ranked by Inc., we see all sorts: pet food, alternative energy, online gaming, cybersecurity.

Using proprietary data collected by Restaurant Business and its sister research firm Technomic from 2016, we looked at nearly 100 of the largest US chains and rated them on three criteria we considered the most telling for all - around fast - food excellence: financial performance, customer satisfaction, and overall value.

The firm also added that the publicly traded, pure - play packaged foods arm could also be a takeover target at some point in the future

He's also an investment partner at Green Acre Capital, a cannabis - related private fund; holds director seats at the TSX - V listed food firm Hempco Food & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana Ifood firm Hempco Food & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana IFood & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana Inc..

The food truck industry is a lucrative niche, with revenue growing at an annual rate of 7.9 percent from 2011 - 2016, according to research firm IBISWorld, hitting nearly $ 870 million.

Restaurants are a part of the millennials» social structure, and they choose to spend less at meals so that they can eat out more often, says Darren Tristano, executive vice president of Technomic, a food - service research and consulting firm.

«What is perhaps different now is that the message that they're trying to create is not one just of low cost but that we are innovating, being creative, trying to meet consumer needs with new products but doing it in a value - oriented way,» says David Henkes, senior principal at Technomic, a restaurant and food industry consulting firm.

Prior to Avanti, Mr. Scal served as Executive Vice President and a member of the board of directors of CamelBak Products LLC, an outdoor equipment company, Senior Vice President at Kransco Partners LLP, a private equity firm, Director of Business Development at Kransco Group Companies, a toy company, Director of Development at Visa International, a financial services company, Product Manager at General Mills, a food products company, and as an analyst at Cambridge Associates.

You won't find that someone at Goldman, where economist Ed McKelvey writes in the firm's US Economics Analyst that core inflation — excluding food and energy prices — should rise at a minuscule 0.5 % annual rate through 2012.

An advocate for change and a passionate spokesperson, Cher has dedicated her career to advancing sustainability concepts within the Canadian food industry and sustainability solutions at the firm level.

A study of Australia's largest food firms shows nine out of 10 are at least partly owned by foreign companies... but with Murray Goulburn about to be sold to Canadian rival Saputo, that number will soon be zero.

According to data from market research firm Euromonitor International, the edible oil category, which had overtaken dairy to become the largest packaged food segment in our country a few years ago, grew at 25.6 per cent to cross the Rs. 1.3 trillion mark in 2017.

I interned at an architecture firm that specialized in restaurant interiors, so I had a chance to interact with a lot of the restauranteurs there — the food community is something I sorely miss since I've moved.

Previously, he worked for a major food manufacturer based in New Jersey and held a role at another firm as a food broker.

Some firms choose to keep their customers at arms» length, but not Performance Food Group (PFG).

An auditor for a global firm reported an unsettling example at a U.S. food processing plant where coated bulbs were no longer in use despite a company policy mandating them.

He also authors the Firm's Food and Beverage industry news alerts, highlighting business issues, distributes the only regional industry survey, and hosts regular industry events including presenting to well over 100 companies at Anchin's annual State of the Food and Beverage Industry event.

«Chains have no choice but to invest heavily in research and development, so they can stay relevant to the modern consumer,» says Greg Wank, a partner at Anchin, Block & Anchin, a firm that provides accounting and advisory services to the food and beverage industry.

When a private - equity firm is involved, people expects a lot of cost - cutting, but Greg Wank, leader of the food and beverage practice at Anchin Block & Anchin, says that probably won't be the case with this deal.

«We can't expect Australian food producers to go to China or Asia alone and succeed,» said Doug Ferguson, a Sydney - based partner at KPMG who leads the firm's Asia business group.

But when I think about other ubiquitous fast food outlets and their brewed coffee, I think about Folger's being served at Wendy's, about Dunkin Donuts being owned by three creepy private equity firms (providing little or no information on where their coffee comes from), and another of the «big four» corporate roasters, Sara Lee «s Douwe Egberts division, supplying Burger King's coffee.

Market research firm Statista has estimated the size of the global gluten - free food market at $ 4.6 billion in 2015, growing to more than $ 7.6 billion in 2020.

With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Peter works closely with leading businesses and organizations on market and business development projects at Agromeris, an advisory firm that focuses on the unique needs of the specialty food and agricultural marketplace.

And dairy ingredients firm Cremo Ingredients, US sweet ingredients company Jana's Classics, and Malaysian Ernsts Food Ingredients padded out the already ample portfolio at Kerry.

As this month's FODMAP food testing theme was «vegan», we're delight to confirm that at a 100g serve, firm tofu is safely low FODMAP!

Innovia Films has produced a video on mineral oil migration that looks at how the firm tests for migration on food packaging and the conclusions from those results.

Over a quarter of global consumers (27 %) consider food and drink to be appealing if products are advertised for consumption at a specific time of day, according to research by consumer insight firm Canadean.

The latest findings from market research firm Mintel show that Brits spent around # 128 million on food and drink consumed at home to mark 14 February last year.

It has been a privilege to work with such a dedicated and inspiring team at FRN, a team that is firm in our work: that higher education can be the first sector where food recovery is the norm and not the exception, and that this model can scale and translate to other sectors.

Kantha Shelke, PhD, is a principal at Corvus Blue LLC, a Chicago - based food science and research firm specializing in industry competitive intelligence, expert witness services, and new product / technology development and commercialization of foods and food ingredients for health and wellness.

The firm's AYS stabilisers form part of its Vitex stable of functional systems, aimed at reducing cost in new or reformulated food and beverage products.

Ownership of Marengo Pastoral is split three ways between Warwick Negus, a director at ASX - listed investment firm Washington H. Soul Pattinson and his wife Louise, David Cobcroft, managing director at Sydney - based Alukea Commodities, and the superannuation fund of Robert and Samuel Mayer, who run F. Mayer Imports, a major food supplier.

Food manufacturers are struggling to tackle deforestation because of failures by governments both at home and overseas, according to candid interviews with a number of high - profile firms.

The summit is geared at business, marketing and technical professionals from food manufacturers, ingredient firms, retailers and distributors, industry organisations and certification agencies, researchers, investors as well as others looking at sustainability in the food industry.

Finding a cost - effective, speedy and green way of treating this additional waste can be a headache for food firms at their busiest time of year.

At the same time, the need to meet stringent food industry standards was vital to the firm's reputation and customer expectations.

Food companies have long donated money and surplus food to fight hunger in Africa, but some of the biggest firms are now plowing people and money into a new strategy aimed at helping the continent feed itsFood companies have long donated money and surplus food to fight hunger in Africa, but some of the biggest firms are now plowing people and money into a new strategy aimed at helping the continent feed itsfood to fight hunger in Africa, but some of the biggest firms are now plowing people and money into a new strategy aimed at helping the continent feed itself.

«Recent trend reports have shown that 2012 is the year of the tart cherry,» said Andreas Guldin, Chief Executive Officer of Emil Capital Partners, an investment firm that prides themselves on their network of strategic industry contacts at all major US and European food retailers.