Once Again the Industry Restuctures Profits slide. Megamergers hope to offset retailer clout. Internet exchanges set up shop.
Plants automate, integrate and tackle food safety.
Not content to acquire middle-market players, the world's 100 largest food and beverage companies are buying out each other. More work and reduced staffing are creating stress on the manufacturing team, and pay hikes are lagging, but food professionals remain generally upbeat. By Kevin T. Higgins, Senior Editor Top 100 Food Engineering's report on the world's top 100 food and beverage companies. The new Hunt-Wesson Snack Pack Pudding plant epitomizes aseptic processing and packaging technologies and can expand to meet consumer demand well into the 21st century. Over the past several years, Food Engineering's annual manufacturing surveys have focused on manufacturing trends.