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Keurig Dr Pepper is hoping to put some snap back into Snapple iced tea sales by tapping into the nostalgia craze. Snapple will get new packaging and a new summer flavor, the company said. ...


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Competition from less expensive weight-loss drugs has prompted Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk A/S to announce cuts to pricing for GLP-1 products Wegovy and Ozempic.

Novo’s GLP-1s will cost $675 a month across the board, down from $1,349.02 for Wegovy, pill or injection, and $1,027.51 for Ozempic and Rybelsus, injection and pill, respectively. The prices compare to $1,08...


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Just less than a year ago, Wendy’s held an Investor Day. Two weeks ago, the company held a conference call alongside results for calendar 2025. The difference between the two events is striking.

Last March, Wendy’s management sounded bold, adventurous, and excited. The company announced plans to ramp its footprint, including the addition of roughly 300 new restaurants ...


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Whether better detection, looser regulations or sloppy practices are responsible is hard to say, but there’s no denying food and drink recalls increased rapidly last year to a nine-year high. The Food and Drug Administration issued 571 recalls in 2025 – up 15.4% from the year prior.

The recalls involved 138.5 million units – a 209% volume increase in one year,


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Behind many food manufacturing facilities, you’ll find expensive reminders of failed automation attempts: outdated robotic systems awaiting resale or scrap.

In a recent FI webinar, Formic Sales Director Nick Fulop jokingly dubbed this phenomenon the “automation tarp of shame” while sharing an anecdote about a manufacturing client in Connecticut that had accumu...


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