Articles Tagged with ''corporate strategies''

PepsiCo is positioning its 2026 growth strategy around an expanded innovation agenda and a major SKU rationalization effort aimed at improving competitiveness and speed to market. The company plans to reinvest savings from cost reductions and SKU cuts into innovation, cleaner ingredient profiles and increased marketing support.

With North America projected to represent 20% of future revenues, Cerealto’s majority investment in Fresca marks a pivotal step toward international expansion. The collaboration brings together scale, agility, and shared innovation platforms across key snacking segments.

The restructuring includes voluntary early retirements and the reduction of approximately 250 corporate and sales roles. Hormel Foods says the move balances cost discipline with ongoing investment in technology, food safety, and brand growth.

In a landscape where most new launches fail, innovation doesn’t always mean starting from scratch. By revisiting past ideas with fresh data and intent, brands can uncover faster, lower-risk paths to growth and renewed relevance.

As 2026 approaches, food and beverage brands face rising pressure from inflation, tariffs, and tightening competition. Discover five decisive shifts that can help your brand move faster, think clearer, and lead with confidence.

Hormel Foods and Forward Consumer Partners are forming a strategic partnership to reestablish Justin’s as an independent company, with Forward holding a majority stake.

Molson Coors Beverage Company announced a restructuring that will eliminate roughly 9% of its Americas salaried workforce by year’s end. The move aims to streamline operations and accelerate the company’s shift toward becoming a total beverage company.

Strategic moves across the food and beverage sector—from testing and dairy-free innovation to new leadership, market research and manufacturing scale-ups—signal where growth is headed next. Developers, retailers and suppliers now face a market reshaped by wellness trends, shifting consumer trust and rising expectations around functionality and speed.

Luke Busker will lead marketing, R&D, signature brand sales, commercial brand sales, Mizkan Center of Excellence (COE), customer service and Mizkan’s newest growth platform, Inspired Mixology.

For years, the disappointing performance of PepsiCo's beverage business was more than offset by its resilient and high-performing foods business, PFNA. More recently, however, PFNA has begun to falter.