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By Bambi Majumdar
 Competition between the soda giants is nothing new. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have been always focused on being one step ahead of each other. Amidst growing health awareness and changing perceptions, Americans spent $70 billion on sodas in 2014 — a 25 percent decline from 1998. This has led the soda giants to look at emerging markets like Asia, Africa and Latin America. While that plan is cooking, they have new plans for the home market as well, which includes the night scene.
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NAC
Join the top food and beverage leaders at THE International Concessions and Hospitality Marketplace. The 2016 Concession & Hospitality Expo will take place on July 19-22 at the Depot Renaissance in Minneapolis. Registration, Hotel Links Trade Show Booths and Sponsorships are now available! The Expo is an educational conference in its 34th year covering a wide range of concessions and foodservice topics. Check back often to see updates as new details emerge. We hope you will join us!
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NAC
Concession Profession, the annual member magazine of the National Association of Concessionaires (NAC), is a proven resource of news, photos and features for the leaders in the recreation and leisure-time concessions industry. The next issue of Concession Profession will come out in April of 2016. Deadline to participate is March 11. Why advertise is Concession Profession?
Maximize your booth investment at CinemaCon and the NAC Concession & Hospitality Expo. Issues are distributed throughout the year at industry events, and to new and prospective NAC members. A copy of the magazine will be available at CinemaCon. Annual issue includes NAC membership directory, a year-round reference guide for members. Members keep the magazine for 1-2 years, and pass them along to associates. Congratulate John and Tony Irace of Packaging Concepts, Inc., the 2016 Bert Nathan Memorial Award Co-Honorees. Great rates and space options available!
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NAC
SIGN UP NOW. LIMITED TO FIRST 144 GOLFERS! Make your travel plans to arrive early so you can join us for golf just prior to the start of the CinemaCon Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas. The 32nd Annual Al Lapidus/Variety Boys & Girls Club Scholarship Golf Classic will be held on Monday, April 11 at the beautiful Bali Hai Golf Club just minutes from Caesars Palace!
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NAC
New York City has mandated that any food item with value of 2,500 mg of sodium or greater (which is the recommended daily allowance for sodium) must display a designating salt icon on their menus and menu boards. Most of the standard concession and hospitality food and beverage items will certainly not need to concern themselves with this new sodium regulation, however, in an attempt to be as transparent as possible The National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) is requesting all Supplier members to forward us their product information sheets that have determined the sodium content of your products. We will create a Sodium Database and make this information available to all NAC members behind the Member's Area on naconline.org.
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NAC
NAC is pleased to welcome new members:
Keith Davis
of Addie's Fine Foods
Steve Klegon
of Valley Popcorn Company
Steve Geske
of Ventura Foods, LLC
Shannon "Tank" Tankersley
of Great Western Co. LLC
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Chicago Tribune
Three squares are so passe. Snacking is having a moment, and — you're driving it.
You could be a 25-year-old Instagram-loving foodie, who shares daily updates of your homemade mini-meals and trendy restaurant tapas. Or a 33-year-old budding entrepreneur, who opts for smoothies and meal replacement bars because you don't have time to shop, but have no time for junk food, either. Or a 41-year-old father, who indulges in a daily Starbucks run with co-workers. Or a 65-year-old retiree who isn't up to preparing dinner anymore and opts for a bowl of popcorn or ice cream instead.
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Chicago Tribune
Blue and green will no longer be among the bright colors tinting the milk in your morning bowl of Trix. The orange glow of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, will come from paprika, turmeric and annatto instead of synthetic colors. The waft of richness released when biting into a Nestle Crunch bar will come in part from natural vanilla flavor rather than artificial vanillin.
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Food Manufacture
The food industry of 2025 will be dominated by six top trends – as indulgence becomes tempered by consumers' increasing demand for more control – according to the keynote presentation of the City Food Lecture 2016.
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Food Chemical News
FDA is on track to issue the Nutrition Facts panel rule this year and is continuing work on voluntary sodium targets for foods, FDA officials told 17 food and beverage organizations at a meeting on 2016 priorities this month.
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Fortune
Some cheese products that are labeled "100 percent Real Parmesan" aren't actually made with any parmesan. An investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that one cheesemaker, Castle Cheese Inc., made its "real" parmesan with a combination of Swiss, white cheddar, Havarti, mozzarella, and cellulose, a filler made from wood pulp that acts as an anti-clumping agent.
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Confectionery News
There are two reasons why businesses change their packaging: as a strategy to increase sales or to try and cut costs.
However, experts in multisensory integration claim the type of packaging and its color or heaviness is key in the perception of the taste of food.
While food science and technology has mostly focused on changing the sensory attributes of the food itself, the characteristics of the packaging could be crucial in consumers liking a product or not, which means it could ultimately have an important influence on its sales.
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