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Global politics add further complications to cost-effectively delivering products to customers. 

With a new name to reflect its growth as a food marketer, the company remains true to its ham-curing roots as it expands into new products and market regions.

Most Top 100 survey respondents expect 2022 to surpass 2021 for company growth. 

Although sales growth has cooled, price, consumer brand loyalty and flavor innovations continue to position breakfast and dinner sausage as go-to favorites in an inflationary market.

Not only has John Soules Foods experienced high-flying success with record sales and new-product development over the past 18 months, but it also built a highly automated, state-of-the-art processing plant in Valley, Ala., to push the company even higher.

When discussing the past couple of years in the meat industry, Cloverdale Foods’ fourth-generation CEO Scott Russell describes a waterfall, where you’re constantly getting hit from one stream of water or another.

Case Farms’ automation-driven renovation and expansion of its Winesburg, Ohio, processing plant sends a clear message that the Poultry Plant of the Future is NOW.

It’s hard to imagine a product that has weathered COVID-19 restrictions better than hamburgers. America’s classic patty was already portable, comforting, and innovative. Now, new and bolder exotic flavors are bringing excitement to the burger category.

I am of the hope that, sooner rather than later, we can stop proclaiming each year “crazy” or “unusual” or some other superlative. What I wouldn’t give for a normal, easy, and successful year in food safety, where challenges weren’t so mountainous and issues weren’t new. 

Seafood sales stay strong, two years after the Covid-induced lockdown renewed consumer interest in the category.