If beef strategy proves successful, more significant investments, vertical integration and market entrants may follow

House legislation leverages lab and food safety oversight expertise of FDA and USDA for cell-cultured meat

Consumers are preparing and eating more meals at home even as the economy improves, but meat consumption has not kept pace with the trend, according to The NPD Group. The number of per capita eating occasions where meat is center of the plate ...

The record high prices of beef over the past few years had a major impact on the make-up of the retail meat case, according to a new study from Sealed Air Corp. presented on Monday. The most recent edition of the National Meat Case Study found...

Given changes in demographics and consumer tastes, retailers should think of multicultural cuisines in a much more nuanced way, according to a presentation on “Consumer Trends Driving Meat Innovation.” According to Jack Li, managing director...

Retailers need to have different strategies for how they sell different cuts of meat depending on which consumer is most likely to buy that cut, according to a presentation Sunday from Nielsen Perishables Group at the Meat Conference in Nashville...

Everson Spice showed off value-added products in the exhibit hall.Value-added meat presents big opportunities for growth in the meat case, according to IRI research presented during the session “Maximizing Growth for Value-Added Meat.” In 2014...

Troubling trends among meat shoppers do not bode well for the department or the rest of the store, Sherry Frey, SVP, Nielsen Perishables Group, said during the session “Winning Customers in a Volatile Price Environment.” Perishables Group rese...

Randy Blach, CattleFaxThe drought and disease woes of the past few years have passed, and total U.S. meat and poultry production will hit a historic high in 2015, said Randy Blach, CEO of CattleFax, at the perennially popular session “The Economy...

Sales of natural packaged meat are far outpacing sales of conventional packaged meat, and conventional retailers should take note, according to the presentation “Navigating the Growth Demand for Natural and Organic Meat.” “Natural is driving a...