Edition 76. Nº 1 MARCH 2019 XXXVIII INC CONGRESS BOCA RATON WILL EMBRACE THE NUT AND DRIED FRUIT INDUSTRY May 23-25, 2019 Boca Raton, Florida Page 46 INC ACADEMIA: NUTS FOR A HEALTHIER SECOND EDITION OF THE WORLD JOIN FORCES EXECUTIVE PROGRAM ON WITH SAVE THE CHILDREN NUTS AND DRIED FRUITS Page 62 Page 55 www.nutfruit.org MARCH 2019 Edition 76 Nº 1 INTERNATIONAL NUT AND DRIED FRUIT COUNCIL FOUNDATION BUSINESS NEWS 8 BOARD OF TRUSTEES • Mondelez International launches SnackFutures™ Innovation Hub to lead the future of snacking Mark Mariani - Chairman ™ Mariani Packing Company, USA • Sustainability-minded corporations come together to announce new convenient and waste free shopping platform: Loop Michael Waring - 1st Vice Chairman • Unilever acquires graze MWT Foods, Australia • Lindor develops 4-in-1 processing machine for caramelized dried fruit flakes Pino Calcagni - 2nd Vice Chairman Besana Group, Italy Asadollah Asgaroladi Hassas Export Co. Ltd., Iran GOURMET 16 Bill Carriere Carriere Family Farms, USA • Chef Leonor Espinosa. Restaurante Leo, Bogotá (Colombia) Karsten Dankert Max Kiene GmbH, Germany Joan Fortuny FEATURE ARTICLES 24 Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts (BAIN), Spain Giles Hacking CG Hacking & Sons Limited, UK • Communicating the protein content of plant-based foods. Opportunities and challenges Cheng Hung Kay • The digitalization of trade CHK Trading Co. Ltd., China, Hong Kong • A new therapeutic vaccine to cure peanut allergy. Re-educating the immune system to be peanut tolerant in 4 weeks Mark Jansen • Nuts: An opportunity to fight child malnutrition Blue Diamond Growers, USA Zhou Jinkui Fen Yang Reell Food Co. Ltd., China Ashok Krishen A CHAT WITH THE INDUSTRY 34 Olam International Limited, Singapore Jack Mariani • Daniel Whitehouse, Global Category Director - Nuts, Mars Wrigley Confectionery Mariani Nut Company, USA Stephen Meltzer Balcorp Ltd., Canada HEALTH NEWS 36 Russell Mooney Intersnack Procurement B.V., Netherlands • The role of nuts in adiposity and obesity prevention Pratap Nair Vijayalaxmi Cashew Company, India • Interview with Dr. Mònica Bulló, Principal Investigator, FERTINUTS Study Osman Oz Aegean Exporters Associations, Turkey Antonio Pont - Honorary President INC CONGRESS 46 Borges Agricultural & Industrial Nuts (BAIN), Spain Hasan Sabir • A stimulating three-day program to explore, debate and exchange ideas Sabirlar Findik Ihracat Ltd. Sti., Turkey • INC Awards the best contributions to the nut and dried fruit industry Harry Sinclair • Connect with 1,300+ industry leaders through the Online Meeting Point Treehouse Foods, USA Berton Steir The Wonderful Company, USA Dick Walden INC NEWS 55 The Green Valley Pecan, USA Chen Ying • INC Academia: Where industry leaders are shaped China Chamber of Commerce, China • INC Pavilion Gulfood 2019: The international nut and dried fruit’s industry spotlight Cuneyd Zapsu • Nuts for a Healthier World: The final phase Balsu A.S., Turkey • INC launches the Allergens Toolkit EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE • INC Executive Committee Meeting • INC Contract Mark Mariani Chairman Michael Waring 1st Vice Chairman • 2018 RASFF alerts for nuts and dried fruits Pino Calcagni 2nd Vice Chairman • Reus 1976: The First International Almond and Hazelnut Congress Giles Hacking Board Member Ashok Krishen Board Member Jack Mariani Board Member INDUSTRY NEWS 88 Antonio Pont Board Member Berton Steir Board Member • Almond Orchard 2025 Goals: A commitment to continuous improvement Cuneyd Zapsu Board Member • California Walnuts International Program Roundup Goretti Guasch Secretary General and Executive Director • Plant-based is here to stay • Pistachios satisfy consumer appetites for plant-based protein NUTFRUIT MAGAZINE TEAM • Pecan Chefs Summit series educates global foodservice R&D chefs Goretti Guasch Executive Director • California Prune Board partners with nutrition professionals to drive global demand for California prunes [email protected] • Key changes to the new BRC Issue 8 Núria Jacas Production Editor • The top 18 macadamia product innovations of 2018 [email protected] • Healthy eating is at the heart of the new Nucis Italia promotional campaign Irene Gironès Technical and Statistical Editor [email protected] • Nucis Germany deliberates on communication: How to address nutrition professionals directly? Marc Centelles Advertising and Subscription Sales • Chilenut reorganizes the nut industry [email protected] INC HEADQUARTERS Carrer de la Fruita Seca, 4 Global Statistical Legal Update 19 Review 71 Advertisers list 102 Polígon Tecnoparc, 43204 Reus, Spain Tel: +34 977 331 416 The Nutfruit magazine is published three times a year by the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council - INC (Fundació Privada International Nut and Dried Fruit CIF G-43738475). This magazine, including all articles and illustrations, is copyright protected. Any utilization beyond the light limits set by the Copyright Act is subject to publisher’s approval. Email: [email protected] All the trademarks, brand identities and graphic images shown in this publication are the property of their respective owners. While the publishers believe that all information contained in this publication was correct at the time of going to press, they can accept no liability for any inaccuracies that www.nutfruit.org may appear or loss suffered directly or indirectly by any reader as a result of any advertisement, editorial, photographs or other materials published in the Nutfruit magazine. March 2019 | NUTFRUIT 5 INC Foreword BOCA RATON AWAITS US! Mark A. Mariani INC Chairman e are looking forward to the INC XXXVIII World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress May 23-25. The Boca Raton Resort & Club, voted one of the top ten resorts in USA, will play host to all the event’s sessions Wand evening social experiences. It has been a year since the launch of the INC Academia - the Executive Program on Nuts and Dried Fruit- and we can proudly say that all expectations were exceeded. This year, tireless work has been undertaken to surpass the first edition and provide students with videos, making the course more dynamic. The on-site part of the program will take students May 18-21 to California to have an enriching experience of visiting the orchards and factories of leading companies of the sector, as well as participating in case studies discussions at the # 1 College of Agriculture in the world, UC Davis. We recently returned from Gulfood Dubai. The INC Pavilion, the largest ever to feature in the Middle East, hosted 15 co-exhibitors and is fast becoming the trading hub for our industry. After spending five days there, Gulfood was without a doubt an inspiring vision of what our industry has in store. Lastly, I would like to highlight the results of the INC dissemination project Nuts for a Healthier World where the main video of the campaign presented in Seville congress, along with the 16 nut and dried fruit interviews, obtained over 1.1 million views including Facebook and Instagram, and more than 43,000 shares which have expanded visibility to a total reach of more than 43 million people. Save The Children was the NGO chosen to channel the donations. I wish you good harvests, good selling, and a continuing dedication to improving people’s lives! All my best, March 2019 | NUTFRUIT 7 Business News MONDELĒZ INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES SNACKFUTURES™ INNOVATION HUB TO LEAD THE FUTURE OF SNACKING SnackFutures is meant to be a forward-thinking innovation hub to capitalize on changing consumer trends and emerging growth opportunities in snacking around the world. NACKFUTURES will be uniquely businesses. Mondelez International is targeting a new forward-thinking innovation hub, structured to bring together internal SnackFutures to contribute $100 million to to capitalize on new trends, and mobilize Stalent, an ecosystem of external revenue growth by 2022. entrepreneurial talent and technologies to partnerships and dedicated funding across “Discovering and unleashing innovative build and grow small brands with large-scale three integrated mandates: Invention of new ideas in snacking that will delight consumers potential. SnackFutures will unlock snacking brands and businesses in key strategic areas; and drive growth is a key element of our growth opportunities around the world that Reinvention of small-scale Mondelez brands new strategy,” said Tim Cofer, Executive Vice respond to emerging trends and changing with large-scale potential, and; Venturing President and Chief Growth Officer of Mondelez consumer preferences.” with start-up entrepreneurs to seed new International. “We are launching SnackFutures, GENERAL MILLS RECOGNIZED AS GLOBAL LEADER IN CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY General Mills joins an elite group to receive an “A” grade for both climate change and water security by global non-profit CDP. ENERAL MILLS has been recognized as a global leader in and their demonstration of best practices associated with environmental corporate sustainability by environmental impact non-profit leadership, such as setting ambitious and meaningful targets. GCDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) achieving a General Mills has been recognized for its actions to respond to place on the CDP “A List” for both climate change and water security climate change and manage water resources more sustainably, based -two out of three environmental themes covered by CDP scores. General on its 2018 disclosure to CDP. In 2017, the company was named to Mills is one of only two companies in the food sector around the globe to CDPs