This week, Food Dive took a closer look at how several companies are fighting for a slice of the highly competitive yogurt market. Meanwhile, an appeals court allowed a child slavery case filed by 3 Malian men against Cargill, Nestle, and ADM to move forward, and Pepsi's CEO made headlines with a management strategy focused on calling the moms of employees and applicants.
Check out guest columnist Sam Vance's look at technologies he feels the food industry should embrace and more in this week's most read Food Dive posts!
- Yogurt Wars: The 3 fronts in the fight for dominance: Once, you had to look long and hard through the dairy aisle to find yogurt. And if you could find two flavors, let alone two brands, you were lucky. Those days are long gone.
- Child slavery case against Cargill, Nestle, ADM to proceed: Three men allege the companies were involved in their being lured to the Ivory Coast to work as child laborers on cocoa farms.
- Edible Intelligence: Why doesn't the food industry embrace proven tech?: Sam Vance's latest column explores the science behind processes like HPP and irradiation, and why the food industry should embrace them.
- PepsiCo CEO's unusual management technique: calling employees' parents: Indra Nooyi tells a crowd at Davos that her connections to moms have made the difference at crucial moments.
- ConAgra, Trader Joe's face peanut-butter pretzel lawsuit : Maxim Marketing says it was frozen out of the business in a conspiracy between the manufacturer and the retailer.
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