Kellogg Company has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Steven A. Cahillane as chief executive officer of the global cereal and snack company effective Oct. 2, 2017, as current CEO John A. Bryant has decided to retire.

Honeywell has announced the rebranding of its Intelligrated business, changing the name to Honeywell Intelligrated and revealing a new logo.

Mondelēz recently released Cookie Butter OREO cookies, a graham-flavored cookie with cookie butter flavored cream.

PROCESS EXPO 2017 took place September 19–22 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The biennial event, operated by the Food Processing Suppliers Association, attracts food industry professionals from around the world. 

About a month ago, I was able to travel to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada), to visit a quinoa field and learn more about quinoa in the industry.

Back in the early 1930s, when Charles Elmer Doolin started The Frito Company and Herman Lay started H.W. Lay & Company, they were establishing the groundwork for a snack empire. The two companies merged in 1961, and four years later joined forces with The Pepsi-Cola Company to create PepsiCo, which operates Frito-Lay as a subsidiary.

Ozery Bakery, the brand known for its Morning Rounds, has recently launched its first single-serve product. 

In today’s highly competitive snack and bakery market, collaboration between ingredient and equipment supplies and their customers continues to grow more common.

In private label today, as we see elsewhere across the snack and bakery industry, clean label is still the current buzz phrase, and consumers continue to seek foods that fall into the larger better-for-you category.

Snack and bakery equipment companies have been busy updating ovens and proofers in recent months. Recently released and updated ovens have included features like greater energy savings, shorter turnaround time and wireless remote monitoring, sometimes those provided by component subcontractors.