Beverages

Vermont's Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. is planning to ask its shareholders to change the company's name to Keurig Green Mountain Inc.

The new leader brings more than 22 years of CPG and food industry experience from companies including Dean Foods Morningstar division, ConAgra Foods and Swift and Company.

Earlier in his career, the candidate held general management, marketing and sale roles across Asia with global companies such as Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Duracell and Nestl.

The new products stretch across Kellogg Company's U.S. portfolio, including cereal, snacks and frozen foods, and will deliver the taste and nutrition consumers are seeking, while providing options that meet their increasingly hectic lifestyles.

Effective January 1, 2014, the integrated North America business will be segmented into a traditional company and bottler operating model that will better suit the unique needs of the North America market.

We have heard the argument by some consumer goods manufacturers that direct-to-consumer e-commerce will upset their retailer. This is changing. The Apparel & Footwear sector moved beyond this argument, and other sectors are soon to change the dynamic as well. Whether they open their own stores, follow China's model of a store-within-a-store, sell via Amazon or direct-to-consumer via web sites, change is upon us.

The Celestial Seasonings brand offers six handcrafted, all-natural holiday teas that capture the traditional flavors of the season.

Big break ups led to big changes on this Top 20 list of food manufacturers in 2012.