The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Ardent Mills has appointed Cargill veteran Erik Wibholm as EVP of Trading & Risk Management. His 25 years of global wheat expertise will drive strategic commodity risk solutions for customers navigating an increasingly dynamic and volatile operating environment.

U.S. Sugar’s deploying an autonomous John Deere fleet, using ASI’s robotic kits to enable 24/7 precision farming across 255,000 acres while transitioning labour into high-skilled oversight roles.

IFF’s new Madagascar hub enables "innovation at origin," merging lab analysis and extraction with local expertise to secure a resilient, high-quality global vanilla supply chain.

The opening of Sucro Can's $135M Hamilton refinery establishes a new B2B infrastructure benchmark, utilising a PPP model to deliver 1M tonnes of capacity for the North American food cluster.

Oterra and Debut have launched a multi-million-dollar strategic collaboration to utilise AI-powered precision fermentation to develop a high-performance natural alternative to Red 40, addressing critical supply chain volatility and the escalating regulatory phase-out of FD&C synthetic dyes in the United States.

TopGum’s $35M acquisition of PLD’s U.S. operations establishes it as a pharmaceutical gummy pioneer, utilising FDA-standard local manufacturing to scale into the generic drug sector.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients has announced a 90 million euro investment programme to strengthen its global position in high-value whey proteins, upgrading three key Dutch production sites to meet accelerating demand in the medical, performance, and active nutrition sectors.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced a comprehensive artificial intelligence programming track for its upcoming IFT FIRST Annual Event and Expo, focusing on how AI can accelerate product development, strengthen food safety, and support global food security.