Carol Ortenberg

It’s been two months since celebrity-backed baking mix brand Foodstirs announced that CPG veteran Greg Fleishman would be joining the team as COO and stepping back from a full time role at Purely Righteous Brands, the management consultancy and marketing firm he co-founded with longtime friend Andrew Aussie in 2013. But even with Fleishman working as the COO at Foodstirs, he will still be involved in client projects, he and Aussie told NOSH during a recent interview.

Just five months after a shakeup that led to the appointment of a temporary CEO, Hail Merry has filled the job full time. The vegan, dessert-centric, snack brand Hail Merry announced the hire of CPG veteran Andy Malloy as CEO today.

After a year spent in development and design, Los Angeles-based Cabo Chips is launching a line of fresh tortillas and a rebrand of its line of chips. It’s a move that the brand hopes will help it capitalize on the rising popularity of Hispanic foods with American consumers.

In May of this year, Think Jerky founder Ricky Hirsch headed to his first large trade show, the Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago. His jerky line, then less than a year old, was just in the formative stages of it’s growth. Seven months later, Hirsch told NOSH, the Chicago, IL based brand has closed over a million dollars in sales for the year.

This week natural products distributor UNFI held its 2017 first quarter earnings call. The past year has seen the company acquire two smaller natural and specialty products distributors (Haddon House and Gourmet Guru) as well as two produce distributors (Nor-Cal and Global Organic). From the earnings call, it seems more acquisitions are in the cards.

From a private label Kombucha to its own meat and cheese snacks, Kroger is reacting to changing consumer tastes by doubling down on both private label and branded products with a healthier halo.

Bone broth brand Bare Bones announced that it has signed Wegmans as its first national retailer. The deal will take Bare Bones into 70 of the retailer’s stores, instantly doubling the brand’s distribution and expanding its retail footprint to the East Coast.

After two years of rapid growth and product development, plant-based food and beverage brand, Good Karma, is launching its newest product, flax-based yogurts.

Only a day before one of the busiest grocery shopping times of the year, Campbell Soup Company held its 2017 Q1 earnings call.

Maple Hill Creamery announced today that it has accepted a minority investment from Sunrise Strategic Partners. The organic, grass-fed dairy brand plans the use the capital to continue to grow its presence in stores and build brand awareness.