Foodnavigator-usa Podcast
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Sinopsis
Breaking News on Food & Beverage Development - North America
Episodios
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Perdue Farms’ embraces transparency to improve animal welfare
11/12/2023 Duración: 21minAfter Perdue Farms received unsolicited but ultimately what it characterized as “fair” criticism for its approach to animal care years ago, the protein producer began inviting annually animal welfare advocates, farmers, academics and stakeholders from across the value chain to visit its farms to share concerns, ask questions and offer feedback after learning how the company currently approaches its business, how the broader landscape is changing and what the future may hold.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Snacking increases but innovation needed for long-term growth
29/11/2023 Duración: 24minSnacking in the US continues to climb, according to data from Circana, despite predictions that a surge in the frequency and sales of snacks during the pandemic was unsustainable and would revert to pre-COVID levels as consumers returned to in-person events and adopted a hybrid lifestyle.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Winners of Real California Milk Excelerator Open Innovation competition shines light on dairy’s growth potential
27/11/2023 Duración: 25minNearly 150 dairy industry stakeholders, including producers, entrepreneurs and investors, gathered at a winery in idyllic Livermore, Cali., earlier this month to celebrate the winners of the 5th Real California Milk Excelerator competition, which scoured the globe to find and accelerate the best startups using milk and dairy in novel ways ranging from innovative foods and beverages to textiles and plastics to personal care.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: FTC warning to influencers includes new disclosure principle
20/11/2023 Duración: 26minWarning letters sent last week by the Federal Trade Commission to two food industry trade groups and a dozen online health influencers questioning the adequacy of paid partnership disclosures may not be a harbinger of impending enforcement that some believe, but they do shine a light on common social media practices that the FTC deems insufficient or is unwilling to give a pass going forward.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: How plant-based players can ensure steady, long-term growth
13/11/2023 Duración: 25minContrary to high-profile headlines about sliding sales of meat alternatives, consumer demand for plant-based products across categories continues to climb, but for the segment to reach its full potential – and continue expanding its consumer base – new research suggests brands and retailers must improve access to reliable, accurate information about how their products are made, the value they offer, where to find them and how to prepare them.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: From healthy to ‘hedonistic’ and affordable to luxurious, 4 trends influencing colors, flavors in 2024
26/10/2023 Duración: 24minAccording to tastemakers at the nutrition and ingredient giant ADM, consumers are ready to “unapologetically” embrace luxurious, indulgent flavors and whimsical, vivid colors in their foods and beverages after years of holding back due to limited options during the pandemic or limited financial resources in the face of inflation.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Instacart Health bridges stakeholders to foster food as medicine movement
23/10/2023 Duración: 19minGood food is the foundation for good health, but according to the US Department of Agriculture 10% of Americans, or approximately 33.8 million people, don’t have reliable access to healthy nutrition – a sobering statistic that online grocery technology and delivery company Instacart is tackling head-on through a wide range of programs, partnerships and policy advocacy.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Investments in retail media are surging, but is it worth it?
16/10/2023 Duración: 14minAs grocery shoppers shift back to brick-and-mortar stores after relying heavily on ecommerce during the pandemic, food and beverage brands also are shifting their advertising from social media to in-store with many turning to retail media networks to target consumers closer to the point of purchase.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: What does it take to raise money in the current environment?
09/10/2023 Duración: 30minStartups with little more than an idea and a compelling founder’s story may no longer be able to secure wild valuations or enough funding to blow millions a month proving a concept, but companies that have product-market fit in competitive categories and can prove they are on the path to profitability still have options – such as from the recently launched growth equity firm Humble Growth.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Most consumers don’t want sugar or artificial sweeteners – but what do they want instead?
28/09/2023 Duración: 32minMore than fat or calories, the nutritional information consumers are most likely to look for on food and beverage packages is sugar, with a survey conducted by Cargill finding nearly two out of three consumers aiming to avoid it and the majority also reportedly bypassing artificial sweeteners.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: How should seasonal marketing campaigns account for inflation?
25/09/2023 Duración: 20minThe 2023 holiday season is around the corner and this year promises more good cheer – or at last more spending – than last year, but the higher inflation that will buoy sales is a double edged sword that simultaneously threatens volume and must be considered when crafting marketing campaigns for the next four months.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: How is inflation impacting consumers diets, shopping behavior?
18/09/2023 Duración: 15minInflation may finally be cooling, but prices at the shelf remain significantly higher for most products than a year ago, and certainly since pre-pandemic – leading to widespread food insecurity in the US and prompting consumers, retailers and brands to make difficult decisions about purchasing, merchandising and marketing.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: How is a diversifying consumer base reshaping grocery?
11/09/2023 Duración: 21minThe grocery industry is at an inflection point as retailers and manufacturers grapple with dramatic changes in how food is produced and sold and an increasingly diverse consumer base that is no longer willing to settle for the one-size-fits-all, supply-driven business model that has dominated the segment for decades.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: TiNDLE sees long-term growth in plant-based despite current downturn
19/08/2023 Duración: 23minEven though plant-based protein sales continued to slide in July, prompting retailers to slim down and shift offerings from the more premium placement in the refrigerated section to the freezer aisle, startup TiNDLE Foods still sees significant opportunity in the segment that it plans to seize with a full line-up of cross-category launches.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Unilever calls on industry to collaboratively rebalance the food system
14/08/2023 Duración: 16minWith roughly 2 billion people overweight, nearly a billion people suffering from hunger and a third of all food produced lost or waste – the current food system is “too unbalanced, too wasteful and too vulnerable,” according to Unilever, which is why the CPG giant’s nutrition division is on a mission to be “Boldly Healthier” for people and the planet.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: ProducePay matches grocers, growers for better supply, price stability
07/08/2023 Duración: 19minOffering an abundant selection of fresh, high-quality, diverse fruits and vegetables is a top priority for most grocers given the produce section is often a key driver for overall store foot traffic – but according to a recent survey staying stocked is also a top pain point for many retailers.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Students lobby for more plant-based school meal options
31/07/2023 Duración: 16minWhile regulators, legislators and industry stakeholders debate whether whole, 2% and flavored milks should be offered alongside plain, low-fat and fat-free options as a required component of school meals, a growing number of students are raising concerns – and their voices – about a lack of plant-based options.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: What are investors looking for in food- and agri-tech?
17/07/2023 Duración: 19minBetween climate change’s negative impact on food production and ongoing supply chain challenges that threaten access to high quality nutrition, ensuring the growing population has enough to eat without further compromising the planet’s health will require significant innovation, technological advancements and funding – all of which investment and mentoring firm Techstars says its sixth Farm to Fork Accelerator program brings together.
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Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Six trends to watch from the Summer Fancy Food Show
10/07/2023 Duración: 28minAt the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City late last month emerging and established brands were going back to basics with simplified ingredients, streamlined packaging, clear cut benefits and natural – if not always familiar – flavor profiles.
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Soup-to-Nuts Podcast: Consumer Brands Association is ready to go ‘back to the future’
26/06/2023 Duración: 26minUnder a new CEO and with peak-pandemic receding farther into the background, the Consumer Brands Association is “going back to the future” to focus on core values that, while still priorities in recent years, took a backseat during the chaos of COVID and rising geo-political tensions.