Food and drink
‘The next protein’: Fiber is shaping up to be the latest grocery obsession
Workers are suspended on a Pepsi sign on a building outside of Allegiant Stadium ahead of LVIII in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 9, 2024. Brian Snyder | Reuters One of this year’s top food trends is facing some tough competition. Protein captivated consumers and food companies in 2025, but fiber is increasingly stealing the […]
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Coca-Cola taps COO Henrique Braun to replace James Quincey as CEO in 2026
Henrique Braun to become the next CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. Courtesy: The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola Chief Operating Officer Henrique Braun will succeed James Quincey as CEO next year, the company said Wednesday, as Coke and its rivals navigate tepid consumer demand for soft drinks. The change will take effect on March 31, Coca-Cola said. […]
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Online grocer Thrive Market bails on booze, bets big on alcohol-free boom
Thrive Market headquarters at Fast Company Creativity Counter-Conference in Los Angeles, California. Araya Doheny | Getty Images Thrive Market is officially going dry. The online health and grocery marketplace will become the first major online grocer to remove all alcohol products when it takes them off its subscription service. The company plans to replace the […]
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EU Commission clears Mars’ $36 billion Kellanova deal
Packages of Pringles potato-based chips manufactured by Kellanova are displayed for sale at a warehouse grocery store in Hawthorne, California on Dec. 2, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images The European Commission has approved Mars’ $36 billion bid to acquire Pringles maker Kellanova, it said on Monday, after opening a full-scale investigation […]
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Trump pardons Thanksgiving turkeys, blasts Biden and says Ukraine peace deal is ‘very close’
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at Gobble one of two turkeys to ceremonially pardoned for Thanksgiving in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 25, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump extended his pardon power to both Thanksgiving turkeys — Gobble and Waddle — during an annual holiday […]
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Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
Starbucks workers walk a picket line as they go on strike outside a Starbucks store on Nov. 13, 2025 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images One week into what baristas have threatened to make the “largest, longest” strike in Starbucks’ history, the […]
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Trump cuts tariffs on goods like coffee, bananas and beef in bid to slash consumer prices
US President Donald Trump during a breakfast with Senate Republicans in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Yuri Gripas | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday exempted key agricultural imports like coffee, cocoa, bananas and certain beef products from his higher tariff rates. […]
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Congressional hemp restrictions threaten $28 billion industry, sending companies scrambling
The hemp industry is bracing for layoffs, production reductions and billions in lost revenue after Congress passed a government funding bill late Wednesday containing a surprise provision that will ban nearly all hemp-derived consumer products. Hemp, a derivative of the cannabis plant, was legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill for industrial uses like rope, textiles […]
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Starbucks workers union launches strike in more than 40 cities on chain’s key holiday sales day
Workers picket in front of a Starbucks outlet in New York City, U.S., Oct. 1, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Starbucks Workers United launched an open-ended strike in more than 40 cities Thursday on Red Cup Day, one of the chain’s biggest sales days of the year. The protest, which the union says involves more than […]
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American farmers push to boost soybean sales in China as Trump’s trade war rumbles on
After President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, there is hope for U.S. farmers that the soybean business may be on the way back. At the China International Import Expo last week, Illinois soybean farmer Scott Gaffner said he came to Shanghai to save his China business. “We want to make sure […]
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