Food & Beverage

Butterball Is Selling Its First Organic Turkeys Right in Time for Thanksgiving

November 22, 2017

America's iconic turkey brand is going organic.

Why Builders of Big L.A. Projects Are Making Concrete With Gravel and Sand Shipped From Canada

November 21, 2017

The 519 miles of L.A.'s freeway system. Dodger Stadium. City Hall. All built with concrete filled with rock and sand washed down from Southern California's iconic mountain ranges.

DHL Customers Say They Prefer Root Canals to Late Shipments

November 20, 2017

Air Cargo World

In DHL's 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator's customers surveyed said that they would "rather get a root canal than have personal holiday shipments come late."

Most U.K. Supermarkets Are Falling Short in Fight Against Antibiotics Crisis

November 17, 2017

The Guardian

Most of the U.K.'s biggest supermarket chains are falling short on measures to reduce the use of antibiotics in the production of the meat and animal products they sell, campaigners have warned, with potentially harmful impacts on human health.

Someone Figured Out How to Put Tomatoes on a Blockchain

November 16, 2017

Bloomberg

Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming.

Rise in Warehouse Automation Fuels Fire Risk, Too

November 16, 2017

Industryweek

A robotic material handling unit zips through a global toy manufacturer's six-story distribution center. As the unit retrieves an open-top plastic container filled with freshly molded toy planes from an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS), sparks from a frayed electrical cable on the robot fly everywhere, igniting both the toy planes and the plastic container in which they are stored.

Brexit Uncertainty Is Already Causing Supply Chain Problems, Says Industry Body

November 16, 2017

Fortune

The achingly slow progress of the U.K.'s divorce talks with the European Union could already be having a serious effect on suppliers on both sides of the English Channel, an industry body has warned.

Hold the Rye: Promos Leave Restaurant Supply Chains Stretched

November 15, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

First, Subway restaurants ran out of rye bread. Then the corned beef started to dwindle.

Trump's Asia Trip Shows U.S. at Risk of Being Sidelined in the Region's Economic Future

November 15, 2017

Los Angeles Times

For all of President Trump's efforts to build personal relations with leaders and to reassure allies during his first Asia trip, the most significant thing that has happened may have been what did not happen.

Hurricanes Put a Damper on Retailers' Profits. Now They're Hoping for a Cold Winter.

November 15, 2017

The Washington Post

Blame it on the weather, retailers say.

Food & Beverage

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