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Article: New Product Activity Healthy.(food industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- The Food Institute Report
- Article date:
- July 10, 2000
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An impressive 1,621 new products were introduced in May--the highest total this year--a 6% increase over 1999's total, and 18% over the previous May's total of 1,372, reported New Product News (June). Thus, for the first five months of 2000, a total of 7,070 new products have been tracked.
Among the food categories, beverages exhibited the greatest activity with 119 new introductions in May. ...