Barry Callebaut Honored With NCA's Inaugural Ruby Award Celebrating Supplier Innovation

At the National Confectioners Association’s 2018 Sweets & Snacks Expo, Barry Callebaut was recognized with the association’s first-ever Ruby Award for Supplier Innovation for the development of ruby chocolate.

Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework For Food And Agriculture

June 6, 2018 TEEBAgriFood

A new report released today offers a ground-breaking platform to evaluate the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of our agriculture and food systems. This Scientific and Economic Foundations Report provides the basis for a major paradigm shift in how we view and manage our agriculture and food systems, demonstrating how to evaluate not just the visible but also the hidden costs and benefits. The timing is critical—with 10 billion people to feed by 2050 and 40 percent of available land already growing food—we need to consider new frameworks and models for how we grow, process, distribute, and consume food, and manage food waste.

The Ben E. Keith Company Board Elects Longtime Executives To Top Leadership Posts

June 6, 2018 Ben E. Keith Company

The Board of Directors for The Ben E. Keith Company, a leader in fine food and premium beverage distribution, unanimously elected two veteran company executives to the Company's top leadership positions.

Tops Markets Agrees To Drop Controversial Bonus Plan

Tops Markets is dropping its controversial proposal to pay up to $3.6 million in bonuses to the supermarket chain's five highest-ranking executives.

Geoff Freeman Named New President And CEO Of The Grocery Manufacturers Association

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the leading representative of the $2.1 trillion food, beverage and consumer products industry, today announced that Geoff Freemanwill become the organization's new president and chief executive officer effective August 1. Freeman is president and CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA), the trade association for the U.S. casino gaming industry.