‘Creating a More Delicious World’—surprisingly, it’s not a tagline of a new advertising campaign, but a title of the corporate responsibility report Kraft Foods presented on May 23. Aside from outlining the progress made by Kraft Foods and Cadbury brands in 2010, the report is dedicated to showcasing the company’s commitment towards securing better and cleaner future, creating delicious and healthy food products and providing fair treatment to its personnel and associates.

Following the creation of the multi award-winning brand ‘the happy egg co’’ (now worth in excess of £55m in under two years), its creators Springetts Brand Design Consultants have been working with owners of the brand, Noble Foods, to extend its success beyond the shell eggs category and have launched a range of quiches with new designs from the Springetts team.

The time of great changes has come for McDonald’s. Despite of the +$1 billion overhaul that the company plans to complete by 2015 to ultimately change the face of its restoraunts, the brand is under pressure to discard its other iconic face, Ronald McDonald.

The campaign against McDonald’s symbol and point of communication with young consumers is gaining momentum as a group of activist physicians and health conscious people are pursuading McDonald’s to give a boot to its 43-year-old mascot.

Following Burger King and other food service industry rivals, McDonald’s is getting a makeover for the first time in its 56-year history with the aim to get a contemporary look and lure in customers of more age categories, USAToday reports. The results of McMakeover can already be seen in several brand’s locations in Tampa, Florida. However, this is just a small piece of $1 billion-plus plan McDonald’s has in mind as it intends to renovate 14,000 restaurants across the United States by 2015.

On May 10, Heinz announced it will return its classic glass bottle to American retail stores as a limited time offer. According to the offical press announcement made by the brand, Limited Edition Glass Bottle Heinz Tomato Ketchup will be available in a 14 oz. bottle for the suggested retail price of $4.99 at select retailers including Walmart and Safeway from now through August 2011.

America’s salad lovers are as excited about making their salads as they are in the final result. And many of them fancy themselves as true culinary artists.These were the findings that led to a new Dole® Salads marketing campaign that uses professional celebrity artists from various non-food genres to inspire consumers to new heights of culinary creativity using Dole’s line of 38 salad blends and all-natural kits.