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Campbell Appoints Slavtcheff Head Of Research & Development

Campbell Soup Co. has appointed Craig Slavtcheff, 51, as VP and head of research and development (R&D). Slavtcheff will lead Campbell’s entire R&D organization, including strategy, innovation and product development for the company’s divisions, as well as its science and technology, regulatory, nutrition and culinary teams. He will report to Campbell’s Chief Operating Officer Luca […]

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NPD: Millennial Dinner-Planning Behavior Shifts With Life Stage

There was a time when Millennials were referred to as one big generational group and their behaviors were attributed to their generation vs. their age or life stage, much like Gen Zs are being described. Now that Millennials are older and vary in their life stages—single, married, parents—some of their behaviors when it comes to […]

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Providing Timely Service Is Essential To Developing Customer Loyalty

by John Larson/senior partner at John Larson & Co. and co-author of Capturing Loyalty Last week, I went to my local Trader Joe’s and bought an inexpensive bottle of Chilean wine. When I went to pay for the wine, the register operator complemented me on my selection. “Several of my customers have purchased this wine […]

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PepsiCo Launches Nutrition Greenhouse Program For Startups

PepsiCo has launched the “Nutrition Greenhouse” accelerator program designed to discover and support emerging brands in the food and beverage sector. The North American program follows the launch of PepsiCo’s Nutrition Greenhouse in Europe, now in its second year. In 2017, eight startups in the European program delivered an estimated combined sales growth of more than $10 […]

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USDA Finds Slight Improvement In Food Insecure Population

A report released this week by the USDA found that one in eight households (11.8 percent) in the U.S. had trouble providing enough food for all their members at some time during 2017. This represents a decline of 0.5 percentage points from the previous year’s data.  Still, the improvements are not enough to overcome the effects of […]