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Groceries as a status symbol: How brands can take advantage
Mark Bellamy, strategy director at NewGen, explains how food and beverage products have become key markers of taste and cultural credibility – and what opportunities this creates for F&B brands.
The sensory scoop: Textural innovation and premium flavours turn ice cream into an immersive experience
Multi-layered textures, unique inclusions and luxurious, premium flavours are elevating today’s ice cream innovations, transforming them from basic summer snacking staples into immersive, sensory-led eating experiences for all occasions.
What do cereals, cookies and cigarettes have in common?
Michael J Skoler, CEO of Sokolove Law, explores how formulation expertise migrated from 'Big Tobacco' into the food industry, and why it is now central to a growing wave of litigation.
What ‘matcha mania’ means for supply chains
Frances Musgrave, tea sourcing manager at Finlay Beverages, explores what matcha's drastic rise in popularity means for global tea supply chains.
Why your bottling line is now an attack surface: Navigating security risk
Food safety expert Santoshi Muriki breaks down the real mechanics of operational technology risk and what a mid-size manufacturer can do without a seven-figure security budget.
Start-up of the month: Bevi Drinks
In this instalment of Start-up of the Month we speak to Josh Hillier, co-founder of Bevi Drinks, an alcohol brand built with today's Gen Z consumers' 'pre-drinking' behaviours in mind.
Beyond the barcode: Why smart packaging is reshaping the UK food and beverage industry
Rob Allen, divisional manager for packing solutions at Interfood Technology, explores how manufacturers are investing in smarter, data-driven packaging.
Emergence of 'youth-locked' brands: Compliance framework for risks hiding inside nostalgia marketing
Laura Bentele at Armstrong Teasdale, explains how nostalgia-driven collaborations must navigate labelling rules and compliance risk rooted in the product’s perceived youth appeal.
From days to minutes: Rethinking Salmonella detection in poultry supply chains
Abdeladim Moumen, director of R&D in medical biotechnology, examines how rapid molecular screening methods can provide effective risk management across the poultry value chain.
Modernising cocoa processing: Inside Cargill’s York facility
FoodBev Media’s Rafaela Sousa visited Cargill’s cocoa processing facility in York, UK, to see how the company is combining the city’s long chocolate-making heritage with automation, digital monitoring and AI.
How food marketing is being rewritten from craveability to credibility
Chuck Studios' Adrian Teixeira-Porrescas explores the shift from 'craveability' to credibility, and why brands increasingly need to give consumers permission as well as pleasure.
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