 | January 31, 2012 | News for the food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry |  |  |
- Coca-Cola announces $5 billion Mexico investment
Coca-Cola said it is investing $5 billion in Mexico in a five-year plan that began in 2010, increasing the number of people it employs in the country from 90,000 to 100,000. Coca-Cola Femsa SAB and Arca Continental SAB, Latin America's two largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products, are in Mexico. The Wall Street Journal (1/30)        | 4 days left to register for FREE*! Co-located with Natural Products Expo West and Nutracon, Engredea cultivates innovation for tomorrow's best-selling products across food/beverage, supplement and nutricosmetic categories.
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*Qualified mfgs use code HEALTHY. No sales or HR titles, contract manufacturers of any title. | - GMA to co-locate executive meeting with FMI starting in 2013
Next January, GMA and the Food Marketing Institute will co-locate executive events, with GMA moving its Chairman's Lecture and Hall of Achievement Awards to FMI Midwinter and discontinuing its late-summer event. "We feel we can take the best of both [events] and make them better," said GMA President and CEO Pam Bailey. Supermarket News (1/30)  | Corporate Social Responsibility |  |  | | - Coca-Cola and Nestle offer global-warming insights
Coca-Cola and Nestle are among the companies sharing information on global-warming strategies in a U.N. database. The database provides examples and insights of how the companies are implementing strategies to reduce climate change, such as Coca-Cola's water-conservation efforts in Asia. Environmental Leader (1/30)  | Earn 3X rewards points when you fly with The New Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN. Designed to earn Membership Rewards® points faster:
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  - Research links CPG website visits and in-store spending
Research shows people who visit CPG websites spend 37% more on those brands at physical stores compared with people who don't visit the websites. The study also found a link between the amount of time spent at the website and the amount of money spent on that brand in stores. Adotas (1/30)  | Top 5 HR Compliance Concerns for Small Business
Small and medium sized companies spend a lot of time focusing on core business issues, but they may overlook one of the most potentially serious and costly issues — regulatory compliance. How do you know what issues to look for in order to protect the company? Download this must-read paper that discusses the top 5 HR compliance issues. |
 - Food Lion to share data with suppliers
Food Lion is testing a program that will give suppliers such as PepsiCo access to consumer data and purchase forecasts. "We're moving to a consumer-driven supply chain," said an official with Delhaize America during the Supply Chain Conference sponsored by GMA and the Food Marketing Institute. "And if you're serious about a consumer-driven supply chain, you've got to react to what the consumer wants and to forecasts of consumer demand as opposed to just reacting to pulls from the warehouse [to stores]." Supermarket News (1/30)  | Costs are rising in China and Japan, prompting high-tech firms across Asia to consider new sourcing locations so they can remain efficient, while focusing more on service. What will be the impact of this behavioral shift? Learn about the findings in this free white paper. |
| Health & Wellness | | | | - Vending machine touch screen provides calorie counts
VendScreen is introducing a touch-screen device for vending machines that tells consumers the calorie counts of products before they are purchased. "When you can put something with a brain on that vending machine and do cross promotions and do loyalty points and have the supplier actually involved in the promoting of their product at the machine level, it's a huge opportunity for our industry," said a managing partner at Ace Vending. USA TODAY (1/31) | GMA News | | | | - GMA hosts food safety and technical services lab open house and tour
GMA members are invited to attend the GMA Food Safety & Technical Services Laboratory Open House and Tour at GMA headquarters on Tuesday, April 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
This laboratory open house is intended to give valued members an opportunity to hear presentations from GMA's technical experts in the areas of process safety and processing technologies, microbiology, chemistry, packaging and product integrity and forensics, as well as the GMA claims program. Following the formal presentation, members will have the opportunity to tour the labs and interact with the GMA technical staff.
The open house will be held in conjunction with the GMA 2012 Science Forum which is being hosted at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 4 to 6.
Space is limited! Get more information or register.
| Government & Food Safety | | | | - Industry seeks adequate food-safety funding
The federal government should ensure that food-safety programs are adequately funded instead of proposing taxes or user fees on manufacturers and consumers, according to a coalition of trade organizations. "[T]he creation of new food taxes or regulatory fees would mean higher costs for food makers and lead to higher food prices for consumers," the groups wrote in a letter to White House Budget Director Jeffrey Zients and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. FoodSafetyNews.com (1/31)
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