Check out the February 2020 issue of The National Provisioner, featuring our cover story on Jack Daniel's Meats and Golden West Food Group's approach to building a successful licensed brand, the 2020 Seafood Report, and much more.
Consumers often associate a bright-red color with beef freshness and wholesomeness. Higher-than-normal-pH conditions are an example of a color deviation in which beef failed to have a bright-red color, leading to discounted carcasses and economic losses to the meat industry.
Be it on TV, in magazines, scrawled across social media feeds or somewhat bizarrely trumpeted as the hot new thing by multiple fast-food chains, plant-based meat alternatives are being hyped as save-the-day innovations ad nauseum. What's really going on here?
The successful growth of the Jack Daniel's line of barbecue meat products stands as a fantastic case study on the right way to earn and grow a blockbuster brand licensing agreement.
Jack Daniel's is more than 150 years old, and like any world-renowned mega-brand, it has lent its name to a wide variety of products over the decades. In 2007, Vernon, Ca.-based processor Golden West Food Group (GWFG) earned the licensing agreement, and the Jack Daniel’s Meats brand was launched.
Quickly freezing proteins during production leads to greater product quality and appearance and reductions in waste. Yet the inability of many processors to leverage the optimal technologies remains a major operational obstacle, analysts say.