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Top 100 in 2018: The World's Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies

The world's largest food and beverage companies continue to find success despite challenges

Alex Clere

September 4, 2018

Nestle, PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev hold on to the top three spots.

Food Safety

How Amazon handles food safety, recalls

Amazon VP Careltt Ooton explains how the company uses Natural Language Processing to scan customer feedback and constantly monitor for food safety issues

Crystal Lindell

August 17, 2018

Amazon aggregates more than 16 million pieces of customer feedback per week, in more than 40 languages.

Sustainability

Better processing to reduce food waste streams

Processors can uncover hidden value in recovering waste

Dvijal Patel

August 13, 2018

The world faces a food waste epidemic. Approximately one-third of the food supply produced for human consumption worldwide is lost or wasted.

Innovation

Citrosuco, Green Cell Technologies sign global license agreement

Agreement allows Brazilian orange juice and ingredients producer to use Green Cell’s Disruptor technology to create new orange-related specialty ingredients

Wayne Labs

August 9, 2018

Citrosuco has signed an exclusive global licensing agreement with Green Cell Technologies (GCT) where the Brazilian orange juice and ingredient producer will use GCT’s proprietary Disruptor technology, intellectual property and applicable trademarks to create new orange-based specialty ingredients.

Seaboard Triumph Foods' Sioux City facility

Fabulous Food Plants

Food quality, employee safety reign supreme at Seaboard Triumph Foods

This Fab Food Plant began operations in September, 2017 with a fully staﬀed ﬁrst shift, processing 10,500 hogs per day

Wayne Labs

August 3, 2018

There is not a single aspect of the Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa, that does not pay attention to detail.

Software

AVEVA partners with Virsec to strengthen defense against cyberattacks

The partnership provides in-memory protection for ICS and SCADA software systems

Wayne Labs

August 1, 2018

AVEVA , a supplier of engineering and industrial software, has signed a partnership agreement with cybersecurity software firm Virsec.

Bioengineering

Coalition for Responsible Gene Editing in Agriculture establishes steering committee

The committee will develop a framework for responsible gene editing.

Wayne Labs

August 1, 2018

The Coalition for Responsible Gene Editing in Agriculture has established a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee to develop a framework for the responsible use of gene editing in agriculture.

Innovation

DouxMatok, Südzucker announce sugar reduction technology partnership

Companies aim to reduce sugar in products without affecting taste

Casey Laughman

July 31, 2018

Südzucker, Europe's leading sugar company, has partnered with DouxMatok to reduce sugar content in food products without affecting taste.

Maintenance

Moving CMMS to the cloud

Web-based CMMS can save money, but security must be robust

Christopher Voss

July 23, 2018

Moving to a web-based CMMS implementation has the potential to save money for companies that are self-hosting the systems internally, but robust security is a necessity.