Lukas Southard

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.

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.