SPI’s experience in food production automation builds on Grote’s brands’ offerings.

Focusing R&D on marrying convenience and nutrition will be key for F&B manufacturers and processors to keep the consumer engaged, win the shelf space and maintain pricing power. 

This award honors a refrigerated and/or frozen foods processor for its year-over-year growth and leadership in product sales, packaging, distribution strategies, food safety, new product development, plant expansions, sustainability programs, and more.

Honoring a refrigerated and/or frozen foods processor for its year-over-year growth and leadership in product sales, packaging, distribution strategies, food safety, new product development, plant expansions, sustainability programs, and more.

The demand for cold and frozen foods remains robust.

Congratulations to Devanco Foods, our Refrigerated Foods Processor of the Year. Known as a manufacturer of frozen beef, gyro kits and more, the Illinois-based company is a previous winner of our award for frozen food processors.

There’s little doubt that scores of hungry fans in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup dined on a Devanco Foods product: the Chicago-based company shipped more than a half million pounds of halal beef bacon and deli meats into the country ahead of the tournament.

The methods used to maintain temperature control along the cold chain are getting greener, in an effort to both combat climate change and increase food safety and freshness.

Welcome to the last issue of 2022!

Each of these colds foods companies are using new approaches to reach changing consumer palettes with unique approaches to sustainability and product development.