Lukas Southard

Food technology company Black Sheep Foods has closed a $12.3 million funding round helping the company scale up its foodservice-based business to new regions.

A Reagan-Udall Foundation report released Tuesday said that the FDA’s Human Foods Program “requires adequate resources, sufficient authority, and a structure and culture that breeds success” to accomplish its goal of creating a safer food system.

Swiss-based Emmi Group is consolidating its Redwood Hill Farm and Jackson-Mitchell dairy producers under a new subsidiary called Darey Brands, formalizes the partnership that the two companies have had in place for the last five years.

Speakers at Day 2 of NOSH Live Winter 2022 brought up the importance of building successful brands that reach consumers who are shopping for natural products that are good-for-you and good-for-the-world.

Market research group IRI explained Wednesday in a presentation titled “Consumer Demand for Private Brands” that a tougher economic climate could provide a boon to retailers hoping to expand their private label footprint as shoppers become more cost-conscious.

Organic kids food brand Plum Organics has fully redesigned its packaging across its entire portfolio that graphically represents the different products’ offerings.

Task management software company PINATA has raised $10 million to help address front-line worker optimization as its customers prepare for a recession to “connect the C Suite to the street.”

After a recent $2.5 million raise, packaging platform Impacked is bringing the trade show to CPG brands 365 days a year by building the industry’s first one-stop digital marketplace in an effort to fix an antiquated and fractured sourcing model.

The Florida-based operator of the Winn-Dixie and Harvey’s supermarkets, is reportedly exploring a sale and is in talks with prospective buyers, furthering concerns of more consolidation in the grocery channel.

In this week’s roundup: Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown goes on a leave of abscence; Boosh raises captial to support Beanfields; Green Giant and the Corn Kid take on Thanksgiving and more.