Kathie Canning

Kathie Canning

Kathie Canning, editor-in-chief of Dairy Foods, is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience in the trade publication sector. Her experience includes leadership positions on a number of food and beverage publications for both processor and retail audiences. She is a graduate of the University of Toledo and is also certified as an Editor in the Life Sciences by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences.

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High Road Craft Brands scales up its operation

High Road Craft Brands scales up its operation

High Road Craft Brands has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. But its ice cream plant remains committed to small-batch, craft operations
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Kathie Canning
February 4, 2020
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Tucked away in a Marietta, Ga., industrial park, surrounded by Georgia pines, is a 75,000-square-foot, nondescript off-white building that offers few external cues as to what’s inside. But once a visitor steps into that building, he or she will see an operation that is actually rather exceptional.
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High Road Craft Brands has craft at its core

High Road Craft Brands has craft at its core

Boasting a chef as its co-founder and a culinary approach to ice cream production, High Road Craft Brands has found the right ingredients for success
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Kathie Canning
February 3, 2020
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At the height of the Great Recession, two MBA students, one of them a classically trained chef, put their heads together to try to solve a problem that was playing out in the foodservice industry: fewer "cooks in the kitchen" to support chefs.
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Retail ice cream sales tumble

But most of the category’s declines can be attributed to a few brands
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Kathie Canning
January 22, 2020
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The U.S. retail ice cream segment certainly has seen easier times. According to "Ice Cream and Frozen Novelties - U.S.," a report published in May 2019 by global market research firm Mintel, the mature and diverse category is "finding growth elusive."
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Added dietary fiber could benefit dairy products

Added dietary fiber could benefit dairy products

The addition of dietary fiber to dairy products could help processors meet the needs of consumers seeking digestive and other health benefits — and could also enhance product-related sensory attributes
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Kathie Canning
January 9, 2020
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Back in November 2018, Innova Market Insights published its forecasted "Top 10 Trends for 2019." Among them was "a fresh look at fiber." That prediction was based, in part, on the fact that 44% of U.S. consumers said they were increasing their fiber consumption in a 2018 survey the global market research firm conducted.
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Natural cheese continue to climb

In the ongoing battle for sales, natural cheese continues to outshine processed cheese
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Kathie Canning
December 5, 2019
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The good news continues on the cheese front. According to Portland, Ore.-based Allied Market Research, the U.S. cheese market was valued at $32.3 billion in 2017, and is projected to reach $40.5 billion by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 2.8%.
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