As Chief Operating Officer, Hjort will have responsibility for the Company’s Finance, Information Systems, Manufacturing, Pricing and Supply Chain functions.

Corbion, a world leader in bio-based food ingredients, showcased its broad portfolio of solutions and its added-value core competencies at IFT 2016 in Chicago.

The new Research and Development (R&D) facility shows Surlean Foods’ investment in growth strategy for 2016 and beyond.

Owners Olivia Kelvin and Robert Stanton will receive $50,000 in seed funding from Archer Daniels Midland Company and $50,000 in services from National Foodworks Services (NFS), along with other prizes, all designed to help advance their food innovation.

Dr. Forbes will discuss techniques for envisioning consumer’s emotional desires in their lives to develop a pathway toward new product development that is guided by the emotional end in mind.

Darigold announced that it will move its corporate headquarters to the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle next year. Just a few miles away from the current location on Rainier Avenue, staff will relocate during the spring of 2017 to Georgetown Squared at 5601 6th Avenue South.

Prior to his employment with Hormel Foods, Finnestad worked as the corporate chef for Michigan-based Cherry Republic, Inc.

Utz® Quality Foods, Inc. celebrates the attainment of its integration milestones related to its 2015 purchase of Condor Snack Company of Denver, CO and Keystone Pretzel Bakery of Lititz, PA.

NQAC Dublin is now the largest and most sophisticated testing facility in the Nestlé network and possibly the world.

The inaugural class of the Chobani Food Incubator will run from October 2016 to March 2017.