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Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced that 11 agriculture innovators will share $225,500 in grants for projects that would strengthen, build or restore sectors of the Wisconsin agricultural industry.

Wal-mart está lanzando una campaña este año para recortar miles de millones de dólares de costos de su cadena de abastecimiento combinando las compras de sus tiendas a través de las fronteras nacionales. Será una nueva etapa en la globalización de su n...

Inspired by fans’ love for the classic baked potato bar, Kettle Foods Chief Flavor Architect Carolyn Richards is piling on the flavor with the newest Kettle Brand® Potato Chip: Fully Loaded Baked Potato.Hitting store shelves in January for football par...

It’s virtually impossible to get through a grocery store without buying one of Conagra Foods brands. Hebrew National hot dogs, Healthy Choice frozen foods, Orville Redenbacher popcorn—ConAgra makes those and about 1,500 other products found at the supe...

Two years ago, Orville Redenbacher soared from the graveyard and announced in weeks of TV ads that his popcorn was now free of diacetyl. That's the chemical in artificial butter flavoring that has been blamed for sickening hundreds of workers, killing ...

Higher attendance marks the second year of Potato Expo in Orlando.In initial estimates, more than 1,100 potato industry people are converging in Florida for Potato Expo 2010, higher than the 900 that participated in last year’s event, said Hollee Alex...

A year ago, Ryan Albright and his two business partners were hauling their product in the back of a Toyota Corolla, making deliveries in communities along the St. John River Valley. Today, one year after launching the Covered Bridge Potato Chip Compan...

The Financial Times reports Walmart plans to cut billions of dollars of supply chain costs by combining its store purchasing across borders and to move towards more global sourcing.The effort forms part of plans by the world's largest retailer to incre...

When David Singer took over at Lance Inc. in 2005, he found a sprawling manufacturing operation so decentralized that plants didn’t even buy cardboard boxes together. The information systems were in shambles, and a company that delivered snacks to tho...

Health Canada is proposing an unorthodox way of combatting acrylamide, a food ingredient suspected in some cancers: It wants to let manufacturers put small amounts of asparaginase - also used as a cancer-fighting drug - into potato chips and similar fo...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading packaged food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2010 second quarter ended Nov. 29, 2009. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.55 compared with $0.38 a year ago. Cur...

Con una inversión de US$ 15 millones y un plan de expansión que llevaría esa cifra a US$ 50 millones en tres años, Pepsico inauguró en Mar del Plata nuevas instalaciones que concentrarán buena parte de su fabricación de snacks, en particular, de papas ...

Wall Street rumours that the owners of Norwich-based Kettle Foods are preparing to put the business up for sale were dismissed yesterday as “speculation”.There were reports in the United States that Kettle's owner, London-based private-equity firm Lio...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Casa Grande, Ariz., facility today became the nation’s first food manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Existing Building (EB) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certi...

A new wave of deal making is occurring in the consumer aisle.November was the biggest month in over a year for deals involving consumer-products and food and drinks firms, with $12.54 billion in acquisitions.In recent weeks, a closely-held chip-maker, ...

PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, today announced it will open a long-term research laboratory in New Haven with a focus on the development of healthier food and beverage products. The company also will fund a...

It happens all the time: You open a snack bag, cereal box, or pill bottle and find a little bit of product and … lots of air. Consumer Reports dings such products with a Black Hole Award, and loyal readers are quick to send us nominees.

La industria de alimentos y snacks en el país está experimentando un crecimiento en su demanda del 10% durante este año, según indicaron fuentes cercanas al sector. Por ello, el área ha tenido que implementar nuevas líneas de producción. Estas nuevas ...