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In this week’s roundup: Upcycled cracker brand Seconds closes up shop, Campbell’s raises FY guidance as soup sales heat up, Second Nature Brands acquires Brownie Brittle and Vital Proteins secures B Corp status.

On this week’s show, the NOSH team runs down NOSH Live 2022, highlighting key themes and trends threaded through the discussions with industry experts. Later, we hear from Holly Adrien, Natural and Organic Innovation and Strategy Manager at Kroger.

Coca-Cola’s North America CMO Melanie Boulden is departing the Atlanta-based conglomerate for a new role at Tyson Foods where she will serve as EVP, Chief Growth Officer. In a press release, Tyson stated Boulden will assume the newly created role on February 6 and will report directly to president and CEO Donnie King. Boulden will… Read more »

As continued inflationary headwinds and supply chain disruptions lead to ever-evolving consumer purchasing behaviors, emerging CPG brands are left to address the market.

Powered by Real Food From the Ground Up has acquired Velocity Snack Brands Opco, LLC (VSB), the owners of puffed chip company Popchips. With the acquisition, and prior launch of sister brand You Need This, the company hopes to create a better-for-you snack platform.

Senate committee members attempted to extract Kroger and Albertsons’ “side of the story” during a hearing on the $24.6 billion merger. Here are some highlights from the two and a half hour testimony.

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.

Motif FoodWorks announced today it has filed four petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to challenge aspects of Impossible Foods’ claim to heme-protein ingredients used in plant-based meat.