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on the Web June 2008 • Volume 69, no. 06 www.foodprocessing.com W h at ’ s o n t h e W e b m e n u ? 555 W. Pierce road, ste. 301, itasca, iL 60143 Phone: (630) 467-1300 • Fax: (630) 467-1179 EDITORIAL editor in chief daVe Fusaro dfusaro@putman.net diane toops dtoops@putman.net erin ericKson eerickson@putman.net Home WHite PaPers sPecial rePorts Vendor offerings KnoWledge centers cool content neWs & trends What’s happening this month at the online resource of food processing and Wellness foods magazines Managing editor-digitaL technicaL editor Mark anthony, Ph.d. plant operations editor miKe pehanich pacKaging editor Kate bertrand connolly regular contributors reguLatory consuMer understanding not-so-exotic foods from thailand a visit to candy heaven daVid Joy hoLLis ashMan, Jacqueline becKley claudia stachoWiaK reprints marKeting manager foster reprints 4295 ohio street, Michigan city, in 46360 866-879-9144, Fax: 219-561-2019 claudia@fostereprints.com EDITORIAL ADvIsORy BOARD gerry gomolKa Vice President-Process engineering the stellar group analyst, ag edwards & sons inc. Vice President-engineering sara Lee Foods national food & beverage industry leader, grant thornton LLP Vice President-ice cream, smith dairy President/ceo, graceland Fruit inc. VP & general Mgr.-china operations, tyson Foods inc. Vice President-Marketing, herr Foods inc. President (retired), nestle r&d cente Our May visit to the Thaifex World of Food expo in Bangkok turned up some unusual items (seaweed chips, anyone?) but also a host of innovative products, especially those with a nutraceutical edge, that could sell well here in the U.S. – or be copied. The full report is available only on our web site. original research, all year christopher groWe daVe kraMer deXter Manning William mccabe don nugent JaMes rice daryl thomas eLaine WedraL, Ph.d. Did you keep your January copy of our Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey? Certainly you kept April’s Capital Spending Report. How about last August’s Top 100©, the only food and beverage industry-wide ranking of the largest companies (complete with sales, profit, company profiles, executives and brands)? Have no fear: They’re all on our web site. Click on “Special Reports” in the top gray navigation bar for the numerous annual reports and surveys we do throughout the year … which also include Food Processing’s and Wellness Foods’ Readers’ Choice Awards, R&D Survey (last month’s cover story), Salary Survey (next month’s cover story) and our past Processor of the Year companies. are you in our top 100©? Only on the web: May’s annual All-Candy Expo included such delights as: Mars’ new My M&M’s Faces (images can now be combined with two to three custom messages on the little candies), Nestle’s Wonka Tinglerz (they give kids the experience of a pop and tingle on the tongue) and Maramor Chocolates (which have 315mg of omega-3 in each dark chocolate square). a well maintained plant DEsIGN & PRODUCTION grouP art director stePhen c. herner sherner@putman.net Jason Vargas jvargas@putman.net anna marie mccann amccann@putman.net art director production manager ADMINIsTRATIvE sTAFF president and ceo John cappelletti Vice President JuLie caPPeLLetti-Lange Vice President oF content keith Larson Vice President circuLation Jerry cLark circulation manager patricia donatiu We’ve begun collecting data for the Food Processing Top 100©, the food industry’s most comprehensive listing of U.S. and Canadian-based food and beverage companies. It will be our August cover story, and the new figures will appear on our web site that month as well. Is your company listed? Last year, the smallest company on the table had sales of $400 million. If you can beat that – in value-added, processed, U.S. and Canadian-produced food sales – send an e-mail to Editor Dave Fusaro at dfusaro@putman.net. Our recently launched Plant Maintenance Resource Center addresses maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. Join in the conversation where our panel of plant operations experts will answer your deepest, darkest plant maintenance questions. Go to the Plant Maintenance Resource Center and enter your question online. June 2008 Food Processing • 7 http://www.foodprocessing.com http://www.foodprocessing.com

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