Food Processing - January 2008 - (Page 37) By Dave Fusaro, Editor in Chief John Munafo, research scientist at the Hackettstown, N.J., R&D lab. BEHEMOTH SIZE HAS ADvantages and disadvantages. With $21 billion in annual sales and 100 facilities in 65 countries, Mars Inc. has vast resources to draw upon for product development, but it also faces the hurdles of being a huge and international company. Despite its size, Mars is not really that diverse. Two categories – snack foods and pet foods – nearly evenly account for 91 percent of its sales (with food and drinks making up the remaining 9 percent). Snack foods essentially is synonymous with candy, and even that is overwhelmingly chocolate. So the company really is not so broad as it is deep … very deep in chocolate. Nevertheless, novel product developments have been helped along by expertise from other divisions, many of them in distant lands. Mars takes a traditional crossfunctional approach to product development, one in which people from R&D, plant ops, packaging, marketing and other departments all play key and formalized roles. One little difference from other companies may be the role supply chain plays in the process. JANUARY 2008 FOOD PROCESSING • 37 WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM http://www.foodprocessing.com
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