Voyage Foods
Overview
Voyage Foods is securing the future of our favorite foods. As many of the foods we love face uncertain futures for a range of health, environmental and social reasons, Voyage Foods takes the familiar flavors we know and makes them in a new kind of way, so they can be enjoyed for years to come. Through proprietary technology, food science, and the use of real, wholesome and sustainable ingredients, Voyage Foods creates delicious new foods that taste and look just like the originals – unencumbered by global environmental issues.
Current Product Lineup
The Year in Chocolate: Prices Surge, Alt-Cocoa Innovators Nab Funding and Expand Production
For a vast number of chocolate makers, this year has been anything but sweet. Amidst surging cocoa prices – which are still on a wild roller coaster ride – conglomerates like The Hershey Company and Mondelēz International have resorted to passing price hikes on to consumers to reduce the impact on their balance sheets, while investors have expressed increased interest in high-tech startups producing alt-cocoa products with methods like fermentation and plant cell culture.
Voyage Foods Prioritizes Ingredient Supplier Role With Cargill Partnership
Voyage Foods has signed on as an exclusive B2B partner for Cargill with its nut-free spreads and cocoa-free chocolate, staking out a future for the food technology startup as an ingredient supplier.
Cargill Partners With Voyage Foods to scale Up Alternatives to Cocoa-based Products
With demand for even more sustainable global confectionery products expected to rise, Cargill announces a new commercial partnership with Voyage Foods to scale up and deliver delicious, healthy, and particularly more sustainable alternatives to cocoa-based products along with nut spreads without their traditional ingredients – peanuts & hazelnuts.
CPG Week: Cultivated Meat’s Harsh Truth
This week the team talks about cell-cultured meat’s many challenges and why unrealistic investment might be dragging down food tech companies.
Voyage Foods Nets New $22M Investment
Food technology company Voyage Foods ended 2023 with a nearly $22 million payday that was filed with the SEC on December 29. The new capital comes from previous investors Valor Equity Partners, Horizons Ventures, UBS O’Connor and Level One Fund.
Distribution: Mooski Roams To New Regions; Cometeer Continues Brick And Mortar Push
Fresh granola bar maker Mooski is reaching new regions after inking deals with Foxtrot, Fresh Thyme Market and Central Market over the past two months. Check out the full roundup for distribution updates from Cometeer, Voyage Foods, Stumptown and That’s it.
88 Acres Increases Capacity with New Bakery, Turns Attention Back to Innovation
Allergy-friendly snack maker 88 Acres has opened a new 30,000 sq. foot bakery in Canton, Massachusetts, significantly increasing its capacity and allowing for a shift back to innovation.
Can Beanless Coffee Solve The Industry’s Sustainability Problems?
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.
Distribution: Nut-free Spreads, Vegan Chicken Expand Retail Footprint
Voyage Food moves into brick and mortar, Caulipower launches frozen meals in retail and plant-based chicken companies Daring Foods and Alpha Foods expand footprint with new distribution deals.
Retailers
Sprouts Farmer Market
Sprouts is the place where goodness grows. True to its farm-stand heritage, Sprouts offers a unique grocery experience featuring an open layout with fresh produce at the heart of the store. Sprouts inspires wellness naturally with a carefully curated assortment of better-for-you products paired with purpose-driven people. The healthy grocer continues to bring the latest in wholesome, innovative products made with lifestyle-friendly ingredients such as organic, plant-based and gluten-free. Headquartered in Phoenix, and one of the largest and fastest growing specialty retailers of fresh, natural and organic food in the United States, Sprouts employs approximately 31,000 team members and operates approximately 380 stores in 23 states nationwide. To learn more about Sprouts, and the good it brings communities, visit about.sprouts.com.
Fairway Market
Fairway Market is an American grocery chain, founded in 1933 by Nathan Glickberg. It is currently one of the store banners owned by the Wakefern Food Corporation, a company famous for its flagship supermarket cooperative network, ShopRite. The flagship store, which stands at Broadway and West 74th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is one of four surviving stores, as of 2020, that are currently operated by Wakefern cooperative member, Village Super Markets.
Gourmet Garage
Gourmet Garage is a mini-chain of specialty/natural food markets headquartered in New York City with four locations in Manhattan as of 2022. The enterprise began as Flying Foods, a specialty food distributor, and transitioned into retail in 1992.
Nugget Markets
Nugget Markets is a family-owned upscale supermarket chain operating within the greater Sacramento metropolitan area as well as in Marin and Sonoma counties in Northern California.
Mar Val
There are nine stores in the Mar-Val Food Stores chain. All are situated in California. They include Colfax, Escalon, Nice, Georgetown, Groveland, Prather, Valley Springs and Willows.
Online/E-Commerce
This Peanut-Free Roasted Seed Spread is made with a blend of sunflower seeds, wild rice, grape seeds, and chickpeas. It delivers the same creamy texture and roasted nut flavor of peanut butter, but without the nuts. Containing 5 grams of protein per serving, this spread is free of the top allergens and safe for school. Spread onto bread with your favorite jelly or use in baked good recipes and protein smoothies.
Our Peanut-Free Spread has everything you love about traditional peanut butter, just without the nuts. Made from wholesome, natural ingredients and free from top allergens, our delicious and creamy spread is meant to be enjoyed anytime, anywhere, and by everyone.