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    Each year we ask for nominations from food or beverage companies about their Research and Development Teams. We look for R&D Teams of three different sizes: small business (less than $100 million in sales), medium ($100-$500 million) and large (more than $500 million in sales). We honor the companies each year in both the magazine and on the website. 

    Highlights

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    April 8, 2025
    Honor the best R&D teams in the food & beverage industry by casting your vote in our R&D Teams of the Year poll.
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    Oct. 24, 2024
    The CEO of Egglife Foods tells how, for startups, excelling at one thing can be the best route to success.
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    Dave Fusaro
    Sept. 5, 2024
    A home solution to a dietary problem became a value-added business for an egg producer.
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    Ed Avis
    July 14, 2023
    Different product development teams work independently on human food, coffee and pet food, yet find ways to collaborate.
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    Ed Avis
    Aug. 11, 2022
    The two-person R&D Team for our third R&D Team of the Year has cast a net around faux fish, broadening the portfolio to include “seafood” burgers.
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    Ed Avis
    July 25, 2022
    A pioneer in cultivated meats and now plant-based egg replacers, Eat Just’s product development team combines science with art.
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    June 27, 2022
    SunOpta leads off our 2022 crop of R&D Teams of the Year, with Just Egg and Sophie's Kitchen featured in coming months.
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    Ed Avis
    July 15, 2021
    Connected and skillful product development continued last year despite Covid restrictions.
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    Ed Avis
    July 15, 2021
    The 29-year-old beverage Sparkling Ice added alcohol in the pandemic year.

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    Lauren R.
    June 11, 2018
    Whole grains products company Grainful won our R&D Teams of the Year poll in the small size category.
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    May 10, 2017
    Our R&D Teams winner for the medium category, B&G Foods, lost no time reinvigorating acquisition Green Giant.
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    Lauren R.
    May 10, 2017
    Nonni's Foods, our small-company R&D Team of 2017, bakes the only nationally available line of biscotti in the U.S.
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    May 10, 2017
    Our large-company R&D Team of the Year continues the drive for higher-value processed foods.