Articles by Robert Garrison

Consumers know such familiar phrases as “time in a bottle” and a “message in a bottle.”

Maybe it’s because -- for 22 years -- I wrote exclusively about refrigerated and frozen foods.

Maybe it’s because -- for 22 years -- I wrote exclusively about refrigerated and frozen foods.

Blue Diamond, an almond growers’ co-op, renovated former offices and created a 6,500-sq-ft “Almond Innovation Center” at its Sacramento headquarters.

Realizing that it needed to grab consumers’ attention, General Motors embarked on one of the automotive industry’s most bold advertising slogans, “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile,” during the late-80s to mid-90s.

Food professionals may not have the opportunity to visit Tulin Tuzel’s home. Yet, they can see Tuzel’s home away from home at Sabra Dipping Company LLC.

I love entrepreneurs. So meeting the dynamic duo behind Kashi was a personal highlight this fall at Prepared Foods’ 31st annual New Products Conference (NPC) in San Diego. Philip and Gayle Tauber delivered the opening keynote address: “Innovate Like an Emerging Company.”

How do you spell new product “success?” How about combining these letters: R&D, M&A and CIE.

Ah, what to get the company that has everything? How about a Culinary Innovation Center?

To see or not to see. That is the question. Some new food and beverage products make a strong visual statement.