Category Archive for "American Manufacturing"

20Aug

5 Clever Customer Service Survival Tips

Build positive customer service for your brands and company. The majority of companies may say they offer good customer service, but do customers as engaged? Learn about 5 clever customer service survival tips on this webisode at YouTube....

09Aug

Nestle’s Project Opportunity creates apprenticeships and jobs

Nestlé has launched ‘Project Opportunity’ in the US, a career acceleration programme to help people of all ages gain work experience and strengthen their skills in food and beverage manufacturing. By 2017, the company has pledged to hire 1,000 paid interns and trainees and significantly expand the number of apprenticeship...

04Aug

Allured Grants are available for confectionery training

There are many fine training opportunities in our industry this year to build your skills. Allured Fund for Confectionery Education need-based grants provide financial help for industry members who wish to expand their food-science knowledge or confectionery skills through continuing education courses. Due dates are on the 15th of each...

03Aug

Sweet Insights webinars this summer

Build your knowledge from experts in CPG, sweets and snacks industries at Nielsen, Chute Gerdeman, NPD Group NMI, POPAI, Impulse Marketing, California Almond Board, MyWebGrocer, FCBRED and NCA. Click to hear about category connectivity, market influencers, retail, healthy snacking and consumer trends. Sweets Insights webinars come out on Wednesdays, and...

18Jul

Nestle in the USA expands apprenticeships and training

Nestle announces Project Opportunity to accelerate American job skills and professional development. Excerpt from the article: “Apprenticeships are a win-win for workers and employers alike and a great way to help young people punch their ticket to the middle class,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. “Companies like...

26Jun

Millennials represent more than 30% of the US population, how is the office evolving?

Communication, digital devices, work-life balance, expectation for training and career development are all significant to the millennials in your office. This Inc Magazine article by Suzanne Lucas will help you see that ‘it’s not your dad’s workplace anymore.”...

25May

125 students and faculty welcomed to education program run by The Confectionery Foundation

More than 70 industry volunteers welcomed 125 students and faculty to The Confectionery Foundation’s Sweets & Snacks education program again this year. The Foundation’s immersion program presents a great opportunity for students to learn first-hand about the wonderful people, products and career opportunities in our sweets and snacks industry. Thank...