Whether the Pizza Happy Meal is being geared up for a local or regional marketing program can't be determined, but sources close to the Oak Brook - based fast -
food firm say such a menu addition is definitely in the works.
Not exact matches
Sunny Verghese of Olam
says the Singapore - listed
firm sees sustainable
food logistics as an important business strategy.
«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.
Katz has hit on a growing — if still small — market,
says Darren Seifer, a
food and beverage industry analyst for the New York City - based research
firm NPD Group.
«Now [consumers] want to know how
food is raised,»
says Darren Tristano of industry research
firm Technomic.
«That conservatism has been present through my entire career,»
says McNally, now the president of Laval, Que.,
firm Équipement d'emballage MMC (a.k.a., MMC Packaging), which designs and builds automated machinery for companies that manufacture plastic caps and lids for anything from
food products, to pharmaceuticals, to agricultural chemicals.
Online
food takeaway
firm Delivery Hero
said it would sell up to 39 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), raising around 927 million euros ($ 1.04 billion), as it seeks to fend off new competitors such as Uber and Amazon.
(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.
But expanding the alcohol side of the menu could be a signal to customers that the restaurants are also a place to get some drinks and watch the game,
says Greg Wank, an advisor to the
food and beverage industry with accounting
firm Anchin, Block & Anchin.
«It's not a trend, but rather a fad,»
says Darren Tristano, the executive vice president of
food - industry focused research and consulting
firm Technomics.
«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.
Jimmy John's was considering an IPO last year, but Darren Tristano, president of a
food and beverage consultant
firm called Technomic,
said that this will likely be a better move in the long run.
Two hours later, during a session called «Getting Cellular Agriculture Into the Real World,» Mary Haderlein, principal of Chicago consulting
firm Hyde Park Group
Food Innovation, alludes to the strangeness of an additive with more than five dozen ingredients in an era when shoppers
say they want simplicity.
Goldman Sachs strategists
said «supportive capital» had flowed into big blue chips or defensive stocks such as banks, insurers,
food companies and healthcare
firms.
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.
The Chicago - based
food research and consulting
firm says: «The restaurant industry is evolving faster than ever.
Ever since the late Carl Scharffenberger and his wife, Mary Ellen, established
Food Sales West in 1974, the Costa Mesa, Calif. - based foodservice brokerage
firm has consistently grown and attained its goal of being the most sought - after foodservice sales resource to top - tier manufacturers on the West Coast, President Dave Lyons
says.
Blake
said packaging optimization is crucial because it helps
food firms and brand owners make the most of their resources, and maximize a product's overall sustainability.
Baum + Whiteman, a New York - based international
food and restaurant consulting
firm,
says «consumers will have access to the world's largest [virtual] drive - thru window without ever leaving home.»
Attorney Shawn Stevens, whose Milwaukee law
firm litigates
food safety cases,
says companies fail to realize the incredible costs that follow an outbreak or recall due to an insufficiently trained workforce.
The
firm and extra
firm are its top two products, and Tucker
says that its popularity has risen among retailers and all customers in the
food industry.
In a Bullock County base just off U.S. Highway 82, the company's 22 employees produce 10,000 pounds of organic sprouted flour daily, making the
firm one of the top U.S. manufacturers of a product that health -
food enthusiasts
say is more nutritious than refined flour.
«There is a seismic change in what people are eating and want out of their
food and beverages,» said Greg Wank, practice leader of accounting firm Anchin, Block & Anchin's Food and Beverage Industry Group in New York C
food and beverages,»
said Greg Wank, practice leader of accounting
firm Anchin, Block & Anchin's
Food and Beverage Industry Group in New York C
Food and Beverage Industry Group in New York City.
Most
firms will «take the brunt of rising grain costs», Redruello
said, and the bargaining power supermarkets hold would also help ensure
food inflation remains marginal.
«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.
Lumicene Supertough 32ST05 is a downgauging breakthrough for multilayer structures that targets industry need for easy to process, high - performance, lightweight solutions for industrial packaging, personal care / hygiene and
food sectors,
said the
firm.
Multinational
food firms are manufacturing poorer quality, unhealthier (but sometimes more expensive) versions of their trademarked brands for the Eastern Europe market,
says the Czech Republic, which wants to see EU legislation to protect consumers...
The
firm said Australian
food and liquor sales increased 6.6 per cent for the 2013 financial year to $ 40.03 billion.
«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.
Global
food manufacturer General Mills last week
said its US Rice Chex cereal will from now on be gluten - free, as part of the
firm's plans to target the ever expanding free - from market.
The artisan
food boom continues to fuel profitability of SME (small and medium size enterprise)
food and drink manufacturers, evidenced by the success of craft brewers and gin distillers,
says commercial law
firm EMW.
Sunny Young, Program Director for Good
Food for Oxford Schools and founder of Edufood Consulting LLC, a school food reform consulting firm, can honestly say she learned from one of the best in her fi
Food for Oxford Schools and founder of Edufood Consulting LLC, a school
food reform consulting firm, can honestly say she learned from one of the best in her fi
food reform consulting
firm, can honestly
say she learned from one of the best in her field.
«I'm a
firm believer that if kids are given fresh, great options and can serve themselves, they will take more vegetables,»
said Food Service Director Nique Wilson.
Bill Layden, director of
food and nutrition practice at the public relations
firm Edelman,
said he agreed that it was unrealistic to expect a simple symbol to convey enough information for Americans to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
WELLINGTON / PARIS (Reuters)- French
food group Danone
said it would sue wholesale dairy exporter Fonterra and stop buying products from the New Zealand
firm following a contamination scare that sparked the recall of infant milk formula across Asia.
Donley wrote recently to defend the company against ABC's attacks,
saying the
firm's «use of ammonia hydroxide in minute amounts during processing improves the safety of the product and is routinely used throughout the
food industry.»
«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the
food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills
said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law
firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.
Jeff S. Korek, of the law
firm Gersowitz, Libo and Korek P.C., who along with Lawyertime.com, sponsored the event by providing team uniforms and the
food,
said, «I met Dexter in a basketball league up in Westchester and over time he told me about the tournament and the incredible work his foundation does.»
DeFrancisco's law
firm has represented American
Food & Vending, or its owners, in seven separate civil suits, the union
said.
Critics
say the language will allow
firms to avoid labeling
foods containing oils and sweeteners made from GM crops, because processing removes the evidence of modifications.
«You always have to be careful about suggesting cause and effect,»
says Mari Gallagher, whose Chicago consulting
firm carries out case studies of local
food environments.
Once the researchers determine if one of the methods is better, they will approach
food processing
firms to determine if they are interested in adopting the technique, Bai
says.
Mari Gallagher, who runs a private consulting
firm,
says her researchers have mapped
food stores and health statistics for the cities of Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C..
«You need to be competitive on
food, that's the driver of what causes someone to go into a store,»
says Michael San Roman, president of The Pet
Firm, an Acosta company.
They also
say the
food provides healthy digestion with an optimal fiber mixture that helps maintain a healthy digestive tract and
firm stools.
«Delena, who is a
firm believer in the Hippocrates quote, «Let
food be thy medicine and medicine be thy
food,» started looking around for nutritional ways to extend her dog's life,»
says marketing director Jason Heck, noting that she quickly found the local Kansas City market lacking, in terms of retailers that could help.