The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Wayne-Sanderson Farms, the third-largest poultry producer in the United States, has promoted Aaron Leach to Chief Commercial and Supply Chain Officer and Michael Crump to Chief Operations Officer, signalling a strategic consolidation of its end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing infrastructure.

Cologne-based startup Eternal.Ag raises €8 million to deploy AI-powered autonomous harvesting robots, tackling a 30% decline in greenhouse labour availability across Europe.

UVESA has reached an agreement to acquire Granada-based poultry firm Payán Hermanos to scale production capacity and enhance market positioning within the Spanish agri-food sector.

Skipstone marks 25 years of organic farming with the opening of a new LEED Platinum-designed estate winery and hospitality centre in the Alexander Valley.

ADM is investing 500,000 dollars through its Farm Forward Initiative to partner with American Farmland Trust, providing technical assistance and succession planning to farmers across six states.

Nestlé, Lindt & Sprüngli, Mars Incorporated, Mondelēz International, and The Hershey Company have announced a landmark, pre-competitive partnership with the incorporation of the TogetherCocoa Foundation.

The funding is deployed under the joint 'Food for Tomorrow' initiative, targeting critical food crops located in highly climate-stressed production zones worldwide.

The partnership signals a growing urgency among multinational ingredient suppliers to secure alternative supply streams for cacao, an increasingly vulnerable crop heavily impacted by climate volatility and supply chain instability.