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Its no picnic being at the helm of a food and beverage company. Tax, regulatory and business challenges abound, such as changing tax regulations, health care reform, the proposed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and new ingredient tracking requirements. But leaders having tightened the belts over the past few years are now looking for growth, both through capital investments and M&A activity.

Grant Thornton LLP, in conjunction with Food Processing magazine, conducted a series of bimonthly surveys over the past year to provide a pulse-check on the industry. Fast Facts on Food Processing: Food company leadership and outcomes highlights the industrys challenges, opportunities and strategies for growth in the past and coming year.

Notably, 9% of food and beverage manufacturers plan to pursue M&A activity. Many companies are focused on becoming green; 26% plan to take advantage of green/sustainability credits in the next 12 months. Learn more about how food and beverage manufacturers plan to fill their plates and their pockets in the coming year.

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People and communications skills, business and customer knowledge and the ability to support and challenge the CEO all emerged as critical qualities in this survey of 350 European directors.

Do you think not-for-profits are keeping salaries flat this year?
Then you'd be wrong. More than 70% of NFP executives polled say they anticipate salary increases for their employees this year. But plans for increases depend on the size of the organization's budget.

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National Survey of U.S. CFOs finds nearly one-third targeting healthcare cutbacks for their workforce

CFOs report the greatest pricing pressure is employee benefits relating to healthcare and pensions.

National CFO survey finds weak job market to continue only 29% plan to hire over next six months and 79% believe U.S. economy will not recover until second half of 2011 or later

59% are concerned with double-dip recession; 64% say cutting taxes would create jobs.

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