Bruce Tharp was to be honored with a lifetime award at IDFA's Ice Cream Technology Conference early this month. Tharp, who along with Steve Young, writes a quarterly column for Dairy Foods, has been a part of the industry for more than 40 years.
Seems Anglo/Dutch Food and consumer products giant Unilever plan to stay in the ice cream game. News last month that it was shedding some of its frozen vegetable business was accompanied by a proclamation that it has no intention of getting rid of any of its ice cream lines, as had been rumored.
If PepsiCo can introduce flavored milk under the Quaker brand, then marketing a Cherry Garcia milk shake ought to be a snap. That seems to be the logic as the nation's No. 2 soft drink company has signed a multi-year U.S. licensing agreement with Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream to sell premium milkshakes.
Dairy exporters are hailing the opening of new talks with South Korea, aimed at creating a Free Trade Agreement between the two trading partners. The Asian nation is already the sixth largest importer of U.S. agricultural products.
International cheese, butter and whey manufacturers will gather April 25-27 in Madison, Wis., for the largest cheese industry event in the United States. The International Cheese Technology Exposition (ICTE) combines world-class seminars, exciting special events and the nation's largest dairy processing trade exposition for an unparalleled networking opportunity.
COLOGNE, Germany-Next month the international food technology sector will be meeting in Cologne for Anuga FoodTec, the international trade fair for food and drink equipment technology.
Imagine a nutrition education program so compelling that a middle school teacher requests the installation of a milk machine on campus so students have healthier beverage choices at snack time.
JansonHanson Logistics, St. Joseph, Mich.- James A. Reits is promoted to executive v.p. and CFO and Andrew B. Janson is promoted to executive v.p. of business development. Both Reits and
Practically all of the world's tea is grown in places that require an American to have a passport to visit. That has not kept tea from being a very significant part of the American culture and diet.
Overall fruit and vegetable consumption is on the rise for the first time in nearly 15 years, with a combined increase of 1% in annual eatings per capita between 2002 and 2004, according to a report issued by Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH), Wilmington, Del. (Note: the number of times the average person consumes a fruit or vegetable item annually does not measure volume.)
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