Robert Garrison

Robert Garrison

Bob Garrison came in from the cold. A founding editor of BNP Media's Refrigerated & Frozen Foods (R&FF) Bob has profiled industry-leading companies, explored corporate strategies and covered food product development trends at more than 150 leading private and CPG companies since 1989. He has chronicled the histories of leading brands and businesses, including Gorton's, ConAgra Frozen Foods (Banquet) and Swanson's frozen TV dinners. He also has interviewed or profiled such food industry leaders as Mike Harper (ConAgra), Don Tyson and frozen bagel icon Murray Lender.
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campbell slow cooker sauce

Flavor Adventure Inside

More supermarket shoppers are finding flavor and appetite adventure in bottles of new dressings, sauces and spreads.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
March 14, 2014
Consumers know such familiar phrases as “time in a bottle” and a “message in a bottle.”
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Bob Garrison

Frozen Food Nutrition

The American Frozen Food Institute’s Frozen Food Roundtable initiative challenges “fresh” perceptions, promotes frozen food nutrition research.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
February 17, 2014
Maybe it’s because -- for 22 years -- I wrote exclusively about refrigerated and frozen foods.
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Bob Garrison

Frozen Food Nutrition

The American Frozen Food Institute’s Frozen Food Roundtable initiative challenges “fresh” perceptions, promotes frozen food nutrition research.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
February 17, 2014
Maybe it’s because -- for 22 years -- I wrote exclusively about refrigerated and frozen foods.
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Lab

New R&D Centers

Prepared Foods presents a coast-to-coast collection of food and beverage processors’ innovation center projects.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
January 23, 2014
Blue Diamond, an almond growers’ co-op, renovated former offices and created a 6,500-sq-ft “Almond Innovation Center” at its Sacramento headquarters.
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Sabra's Center of Excellence

R&D Center Design

Food processors embrace new (and even “green”) designs for R&D and culinary centers.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
January 23, 2014
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.
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Sabra Kitchen table

Innovation, Culinary R&D Centers: Where We Work

Prepared Foods visits Sabra Dipping Company’s new Center of Excellence R&D and Innovation Center in Colonial Heights, Va.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
January 23, 2014
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.
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Bob Garrison

Kashi’s Food Innovation Story, Strategy

Kashi co-founders Philip and Gayle Tauber delivered the opening keynote address at Prepared Foods’ annual New Products Conference.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
November 20, 2013
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.”
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B.K. Girdhar, Christopher hansen

Creative R&D Culture

Meat and prepared foods processor OSI Group invests in culinary and R&D resources to keep pace with sophisticated customers and consumers.
Bob Garrison
Robert Garrison
September 13, 2013
Ah, what to get the company that has everything? How about a Culinary Innovation Center?
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