Lukas Southard

Private equity firm Butterfly is expanding its “seed to fork” strategy with its acquisition of vertically integrated dairy ingredient maker Milk Specialities Global.

A new generation of coffee alternative brands are pitching themselves as the solution to coffee’s sustainability problems. Food tech operations say their processes and products use less land, less water and have a lower carbon footprint but still produces a cup that looks, smells and tastes like the real thing.

Belgium-based Lotus Bakeries announced it has taken a minority stake in functional food brand IQBAR leading the bar maker’s Series B funding round through its venture arm, Fast Forward 2032.

Eastern Standard Provisions has completed a funding round with participation from Mondelēz International’s venture arm SnackFutures.

A Washington, D.C. Circuit court panel sided with Albertsons on Tuesday refusing to impose an emergency pause on the grocery chain’s planned $4 billion shareholder dividend filed in the court a month and a half ago.

New label certifications, calls for transparency of environmental impact and innovative products targeting sustainability-minded and health-conscious consumers showed how shoppers prioritized CPG food in 2022.

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.