Relocation brings HQ closer to manufacturing site
Kentucky HPP'd business: Avure opens headquarters, R&D lab
Avure Technologies has opened a headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky (outside Cincinnati, Ohio).
Archives for January 15, 2015
Peeled Snacks: If you don’t take time to understand retail buyers, why should they take time to understand you?
The natural channel: ‘An utter pain to sell to, but the exposure it can give your brand is huge’
Which retail channel is right for your brand? Natural? Club? Convenience? And once you’ve jumped through all the buyers’ hoops, will you still be able to make any money? It all depends on whether you’ve done your homework, one snacking sales expert told...
Nutrition and health bars expand market share by tying into wellness, athleticism
Nutrition and health bars are stealing market share from the category leading snack and cereal bars in part because they tie into the health and wellness trend dominating many consumers’ purchasing decisions in a way snack and cereal bars don’t,...
Heat-tolerant wheat NPD urgent amid climate change woes, warns professor
For each degree Celcius increase in temperature, the world will lose 6% of its wheat crop and industry must fight back with heat-tolerant cultivars, says a professor from the University of Florida.
PCI: ‘Why are companies investing in BOPP film in an already over-supplied European market?’
PCI Films Consulting (PCI) claims too many companies are investing in BOPP film in an already over-supplied European market, as it releases a report analysing 15 flexible packaging markets.
US sales of ready to eat popcorn grew 25% to an estimated $750m in 2014
The 'astounding' reinvention of popcorn as "Millennial friendly, cool and healthy”
“Tired brands and off-trend categories should take inspiration from the astonishing turnaround in the fortunes of popcorn,” according to a new report from Rabobank International, which reveals that US sales of the bagged, pre-popped, ready-to-eat (RTE)...