Food and Beverage Processing: The COVID-19 Pandemic Influence
December 8, 2020
By Jay Garner, CEcD, President, Garner Economics LLC
The year 2020 will go down in recent history as one of the most disruptive in our lifetime because of the mother of all disruptors – the COVID-19 pandemic. We were all impacted. Most of us adversely, but some businesses and entrepreneurs actually thrived. The food and beverage processing sector was indeed impacted, both positively and negatively. The supply chain was severely disrupted thus causing product shortages (remember how difficult it was to find toilet paper?); grocery retailers saw ...
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