A General Mills lawsuit settlement and Food Dive's look at smartphone-enabled packaging concepts topped the charts with our readers this week. It was a busy week in food and bev news, with the YoPlus suit finally coming to an end and AB InBev news trickling out in the wake of the DOJ's move to stop them from acquiring Grupo Modelo.
Get caught up on those and more popular stories at the links below:
- General Mills settles yogurt claims suit for $8.5 million: The plaintiff took issue with probiotic and digestive health marketing for the YoPlus line.
- 10 food packaging designs that speak to smartphones: Sometimes to reach a consumer, you've got to go through their smartphone first.
- 5 Super Bowl XLVII food ads that got stuck in our heads: Oreos, Budweiser and Doritos went after gags, heartstrings and absurd levels of weirdness, respectively.
- AB InBev fires back at the DOJ: Company lawyers did not take kindly to the federal lawsuit attempting to block their acquisition.
- Glenn Beck rails against Nestle Waters on radio: The controversial shock-jock had a few things to say about Nestle and "green packaging."
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