In addition to the three-day expo, which offers tens of thousands of attendees the opportunity to peruse the latest technologies and services from meat and poultry industry suppliers, the 2023 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), held in Atlanta Jan. 24-26, also provides abundant educational sessions.

Convenience. Health and wellbeing. Transparency. They’re all huge trends in themselves. Put them together, and you have a force to be reckoned with — and a vision for the grocery fresh perimeter that’s very bright indeed.

The plant-based items will be available in 1,500 stores.

Brady Stewart to join company from Smithfield Foods.

Consumers continue to seek convenience, and their interest in case ready meats reflects this mindset.

The two companies will develop products using Rhiza mycoprotein.

In the current environment, a lot of what happens in the grocery store, including the meat department, ends up being a reflection of the marketplace, said Anne-Marie Roerink, president of San Antonio-based 210 Analytics.

For years now, the Sealed Air National Meat Case Study has been showing steady growth in case-ready as a share of all packages in grocery meat cases.

On Dec. 13, CoBank released its 2023 Year Ahead report, “Forces that will Shape the U.S. Rural Economy."

Hormel Foods Corp. is partnering with Crisp, an open-data retail platform for the consumer goods industry, to leverage real-time data through Google Cloud.