FM entered the 21st century looking ahead to the world of 2025 but then got down to business in the century’s first decade by launching its annual Best Concept Awards program and examining issues like concept development and the growing “green”...

In the last decade of the 20th century, FM celebrated its 25th anniversary and debuted its annual Top 50 rundown of the contract management industry’s biggest players.

FM’s second decade saw major features documenting and exploring issues like wellness, sustainability, commercialization and the impacts of the advancing computer age.

Starting with its inaugural issue in August/September 1972, Food Management in the 1970s produced reports on enduring issues like nutrition science/education, the role of computers and the perennial contract vs. self-op debate…