About Food Manufacturing

When Food Manufacturing launched in 1997, it filled a critical need for accessible, authoritative information tailored specifically to the food and beverage processing industry. Today, Food Manufacturing is the heartbeat of a $564 billion market, providing decision-makers with the tools, technology insights, and updates they need to stay competitive and compliant in one of the most highly regulated and fast-moving sectors of manufacturing.

With daily news, strategic analysis, and deep product intelligence, Food Manufacturing connects professionals to the innovations that power productivity—from factory floor to C-suite.

Mission and Audience

Food Manufacturing is built for professionals navigating the unique challenges of food and beverage production, including regulatory compliance, labor shortages, evolving consumer demand, energy management, and food safety.

Our active and highly engaged readers include executives, plant operations and maintenance, engineering, R&D, and procurement professionals from food manufacturers of all sizes—including influential leaders at brands like Tyson Foods, PepsiCo, General Mills, Cargill, Conagra, Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, Smithfield, ADM, and Coca-Cola.

With this highly targeted reach, Food Manufacturing offers unmatched visibility into companies controlling more than 89% of the U.S. market by value.

Editorial Excellence and Engagement

The editorial team at Food Manufacturing delivers daily, original content across a broad spectrum of vital industry topics:

  • Food safety and recalls
  • Packaging and labeling
  • Automation and Industry 4.0
  • Cold chain logistics
  • Traceability and regulatory compliance
  • Maintenance, sanitation, and worker safety
  • Sustainability and energy efficiency
  • Ingredient trends and equipment innovations

In addition to its digital-first publishing strategy, Food Manufacturing is also distributed in print as a special supplement within Industrial Equipment News (IEN). This provides advertisers with expanded reach into a high-value, print-savvy subscriber base—ensuring their message appears alongside trusted content on the desks of food and beverage decision-makers across the country.

Opportunities to Partner with Food Manufacturing

We offer a range of tailored marketing and lead generation solutions to help partners reach a high-value audience across digital channels. Opportunities include:

  • A daily email newsletter with industry-leading open and click-through rates - Example
  • Smart Engagement: combines AI-driven targeting, omnichannel distribution, and real-time analytics to maximize content impact, generate leads, and boost ROI for industrial marketers.
  • Website display ads
  • Single and multi-sponsored email deployments
  • Customized newsletter deployments
  • Specialized video formats - Example
  • Video ads and pre-rolls Example
  • Video and audio podcasts - Example
  • Content creation, including whitepapers, eBooks, infographics and video
  • Custom research
  • Resource guides
  • Multiple sponsorship opportunities

For more information please contact [email protected]. 

Contributions 

We're happy to accept and review potential contributions for Food Manufacturing. Contributions are welcome from anyone with expertise or insight into the industry.  

For more information, contact [email protected].  

Editorial Guidelines 

The following Contributor Guidelines should be considered when submitting articles for review. 

  • Submissions should be no more than 1,000 words.
  • Each submission should include the author name, title and affiliation.
  • Please include a headshot of the author.
  • Exclusive pieces will be given priority, so please let us know if your article has previously been published elsewhere.
  • Submissions should be written with an industry-wide perspective and not be promotional for any one product or company. Any promotional language will be edited.
  • No AI-generated content will be accepted.
  • We reserve the right to edit the piece as we see fit, but we’re also happy to pass on a final draft to the author before it appears on the site.
  • Because we publish new content every day, there’s no hard deadline for submission. However, we do reserve the right to publish the piece in accordance with our production cycle.

If you are having trouble with this site, please send an email to [email protected] explaining your problem, and we'll reply with answers. 

Snail mail: 
Food Manufacturing 
199 East Badger Road 
Suite 100 
Madison, WI 53713