BPN Network Days: Opening up new opportunities for food formulators, entrepreneurs and other agrifood industry stakeholders in India and the world
After many trips to India over the last years, one of the things I am most amazed of is the spirit of collaboration between Indian professionals and the drive towards exploring new possibilities in an industry like food ingredients, which is considered very conservative and have hardly changed during last 50 years. Now looking back […]
Are you a visionary agrifood professional? The BPN network day in Mumbai is a “must” in your calendar
Today the digital world offers new possibilities of connectivity and networking, opening up new corporate business relationships and partnerships. Transparent and value aligned interactions with young talents and mature networkers are possible as well as multiple working formats. More and more professionals prefer to work as freelancers or flexiworkers rather than regular corporate employment, creating […]
Food Networking Consulting Mexico: A modern agrifood SME offering a brand new “formulation”
Agri-food technology development is a fast changing sector and during the last few years, lots of new start-ups with true potential to disrupt the actual value chain are emerging. These dynamic start-ups are bringing lots of new ideas, services and products to the market being offered directly to the final consumer moving away from the […]
Frank Lichtmess – A food formulator who has changed his “formula”
The global Food and Beverage industry counts on an enormous amount of talented food formulators. Specialists, who develop and apply their knowledge and deliver specific formulas and application notes, used by their companies either to produce a food product or to support the sales of specific products or services to other stakeholders. These formulators are […]
Take food production from Static to Portable
It is a fact that the global agriculture and food production industry employed more than one billion people in 2013 being equivalent to the third of the entire global workforce, and yet the industry is controlled and managed by a very small number of companies, having an enormous influence on food prices, diets and working […]
What is the true value of a food formulation?
Millions of B2B food formulations are today offered to food producers all over the world with one simple message: “My formulation is better or cheaper than yours”. Most of the offered formulations are generic recipes developed by one person or a small team being employed by a global or local raw material or food powder […]
Helping new strong local food brands arise
Dairy food producers are turning to markets such as Africa: Growth in established markets is low while, population is increasing in emerging countries, which, and where there is an increasing interest in dairy products. Recently, Arla Foods announced both the shipping of a portable packaging unit to Africa and new alliances in the continent to […]
Dairy products Anywhere: A new replicable production concept
Through a Linkedin article, I recently learned about a very interesting concept called “Smart dairy – Farming in the box”. A new way of producing milk anywhere, and a concept apparently very similar to food powder blends “Anywhere” offered by Blendhub – for production of dairy based or other food powders blended anywhere in the […]
Formulators: What do consumers demand? Transparency and local products
Recent studies about final food consumers’ preferences reiterate an increasing interest in locally produced products and transparency. Going downstream the food value chain, it is clearly contradicting the way in which companies producing and delivering food formulations and blends have been operating for the last fifty years. Raw materials and food powders are needlessly shipped […]
New Market, New Conventional Plant for Food Powder Blends Set Up – Just Reconsider it!
I have been working in the agri-food sector for nearly thirty years. After some successes and failures, I consider the construction of a state of the art factory for blending food powder one of my biggest mistakes during this time – I’m not doing it anymore. I truly believe that food powder blends must be […]