Packaged Foods

The Supermarket Guru predicts that social shopping, healthy snacking and millennials will shape consumer trends in the New Year. Find out what other dramatic food changes will stem from ever-changing consumers and their relationships with merchants, brands and food.

It's no secret that consumer programs aimed at the digital shopper represent a huge opportunity for brands to engage consumers and improve marketing efficiencies. That's one reason why Kellogg Company recently enhanced its consumer loyalty program.

In order to address allergen management concerns, Kraft Foods Canada scans each label after it has been attached on the packaging line to ensure that it matches the package contents. But the laser scanner type ID readers used in the past to inspect the company' barbeque sauce products were subject to read failures. Find out how Kraft solved the problem by switching to image-based DataMan 300 ID readers.

Nestle has pledged to accelerate the reduction of salt across all its food brands worldwide to support a World Health Organization salt target of no more than 5g of salt per person, per day, by 2025.

The agreement does not include Campbells recently-acquired Kelsen Group, which will continue its operations in Denmark and the export of its products to countries in Europe and throughout the world.

Nestl is continuing to boost growth in Europe by opening a new CHF 73 million (about 2.6 billion roubles) Maggi factory in Russia.

The creative reinforces Del Monte's positioning strategy while still addressing unique category dynamics around product segmentation and shopping behavior.

Prior to joining Campbell, the candidate was President, Emerging Markets and a member of the Executive Board of Beiersdorf AG, one of the worlds leading personal care companies.