Todd Southerland, senior vice president and food & agribusiness industry manager at SunTrust Bank looks at strategies smaller food companies are using to capture more of the market.
Stephen Kalil, corporate executive research chef at Frito-Lay, looks at some Latin American culinary trends and select sources of flavorful inspiration.
Even in our crowded and highly competitive snack and bakery industry, when excellence emerges, people take notice. Such has been the case for Quinn Snacks and its co-founder and CEO, Kristy Lewis, which have racked up an impressive list of accolades over the past few years
While the game of tracking consumer trends is never short on nuance, clear patterns regularly emerge to catalyze incremental growth in select snack and bakery categories.
The top companies in the snack and bakery industry today include everything from massive international public corporations to niche-driven, highly successful, family-owned businesses.
In his 1954 compendium of writings, “Ideas and Opinions,” Albert Einstein said that “all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” He put forth this scientific “fundamental truth” in connection to his predecessors Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei, tying it to the origins of modern science.