Project NOSH Staff

This week, BevNET and Nosh senior reporters Brad Avery and Lukas Southard dissect a strange case of AI-generated trade dress infringement before exploring Kraft Heinz’s plan to divest its legacy coffee portfolio. They also cover the latest restructuring of Celsius’s energy drink portfolio and get a taste of the latest snacking innovation from Peter Rahal’s Medici Brands.

On this episode, the team discusses Oatly’s newest innovation, Mondelēz’s acquisition of Undercover Snacks and the Simply Good Foods turnaround plan.

In this episode, the podcast explores Vita Coco’s continued success, mass layoffs plaguing the food and beverage industry and Whole Foods 2027 trend predictions.

This week, the podcast discusses Poppi co-founders’ new Jetty brand, several funding rounds and the state of the hemp industry.

Bob Burke, founder of Natural Products Consulting Group, and John Maggiore, founder of Maggiore Sales and Marketing, guide attendees on how to create effective trade spending and promotional plans. They also discuss the best methods for integrating these programs into company budgets and monitoring them for maximum sustained lift.

Every trip to the store consumers are faced with hundreds of choices and as a food brand, you only have a few seconds to make an impression. In this session Pulp & Wire founder Taja Dockendorf will share how her agency goes about developing branding for leading food companies and how you can utilize some of these strategies for your own food packaging, even before engaging an agency.

Your audience contains your consumers, both present and future. Here’s how to build it.

The team at Kroger is intent on finding new beverage brands to surprise and delight consumers. They discuss the store’s goals and the best ways to pitch and grow with this influential national chain.

We spoke with buyers from two of the leading e-commerce platforms about how they approach merchandising and purchasing decisions. Executives from Misfits Market and Thrive Market paint a picture of what it takes to catch the eye of an ecommerce buyer or category manager, how they think about assortment given the option of an “endless aisle” and what makes a brand successful with their consumers.

Faaturing: John Maggiore, Founder, Maggiore Sales and Marketing