Month: January 2014

Compass Group North America, the leading foodservice management and support services company, is the newest hospitality partner in Greener Fields Together, the sustainability and local produce initiative created by the PRO*ACT produce supply-chain management company. The foodservice industry's first comprehensive national farm-to-fork sustainability program, Greener Fields Together creates continuous sustainability improvements at each touch point in the produce supply chain. It ensures that Compass Group, through its produce procurement partner Foodbuy, will have greater access to high-quality, safe produce grown at both the national and local levels. …

McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC), a global leader in flavor, is kicking off a yearlong 125th anniversary celebration by launching its “Flavor of Together” campaign. McCormick’s overall goal of this initiative is to unite people around the world as they share 1.25 million stories about the special roles food and flavor play in our lives. …

Some Americans who made New Year's resolutions to eat healthy are indulging in unhealthy foods when no one is around (and may even be destroying the evidence). Research outlined in a new white paper, "Our Appetite for Healthy Eating," explores consumers' behavior toward healthy food choices and how they strive to eat right. …

Tyson Foods, Inc. acquired the assets of Bosco’s Pizza Co. of Warren, Mich., both companies announced today. Bosco’s Pizza, famous for “The Original Bosco Stick,” produces a variety of stuffed bread sticks and frozen pizzas for food service and retail customers throughout the Midwest and at some retailers nationwide. Terms of the acquisition, which was completed January 18, were not disclosed. …

Food prepared outside the home (food away from home, FAFH) comprises a significant share of U.S. consumers food expenditures, and FAFH intake has been linked to lower diet quality. Between 2006 and 2009, food spending declined 5 percent, due mainly to a 12.9-percent decline in expenditures on FAFH. This decline could have led to improvements in overall diet quality. However, the net effect on dietary intake and diet quality cannot be ascertained from expenditure data alone. This report documents how eating patterns and diet quality changed among working-age adults (those born between 1946 and 1985) from 2005 to 2010, a period that includes the recession of 2007-09, and explores the extent to which the change in diet quality can be attributed to changes in FAFH consumption. …