I realize we’re in an electronic age. However, for a just moment here, I’m up to my neck in computer print-outs. This is my annual exercise – to research as many as 200 food companies’ public records, reports and media mentions.

How does the saying go? Isn’t it “Absence (of capital projects) makes the heart grow fonder?” This is Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ 11th annual “Food Plants of the Year” feature. 

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods honors Sandridge Food Corp. as the magazine's first "Refrigerated Processor of the Year."

New cold lighting technologies offer greater energy efficiency, control.

One man I’ve known for 20 years. The other, I had known only for about 20 minutes.

I don’t know where you were in 1990. I remember a little bit of my life and one day I vividly recall had me at a new desk in the Chicago suburbs.

Is Pinnacle Foods ready to win the food industry’s version of the Stanley Cup? Not yet. Even so, Refrigerated & Frozen Foods is proud to recognize the company for its dramatic, year-over-year improvements.

Sometimes they say, “Don’t ask the question if you don’t want to hear the answer.” Perhaps that’s never been more applicable than now – when food industry leaders want to believe the nation’s economy is recovering.

Even after profiling the nation's leading 150 refrigerated and frozen food processors, Editor Bob Garrison is thinking about others not on the list.

Frito-Lay's "Zero Landfill" plan helped it earn "most innovative company" accolades from Fast Company magazine. Editor Bob Garrison profiles six more intriguing and innovative operations in Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ 10th annual “Food Plants of the Year” feature.