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Back to Nature has traded hands, with BA Brussels, LLC, a subsidiary of Barilla America, acquiring the snack brand from B&G Foods as part of a larger strategy to diversify its U.S. portfolio.

The vegan cheese market has aged; enough so that conventional dairy cheese makers are looking to the category as an opportunity to innovate. But can these products help solidify the category’s long term growth?

Private equity firm Bansk Group today announced its majority acquisition of frozen food brand Red’s All Natural.

On this week’s show, the NOSH team chats about the ever-growing plant-based alternatives space and the implications of the recent sale of Popchips. Later, we hear from Emma Chamberlain, online creator and founder of Chamberlain Coffee, to learn how she built the brand on her ethos of authenticity and transparency.

Online retailer Good Eggs has launched a new storefront of products that can be ordered by customers nationwide, called Good Eggs Select (GES), as part of an ambitious plan to help the retailer once again expand beyond its home state of California.

Second Nature Brands, parent company to Kar’s Nuts, Sanders Chocolates and Second Nature Snacks, is looking to ramp up its acquisition strategy over the next few years as it seeks to build a platform of better-for-you sweet and snack brands.

Former Amazon and General Mills’ executive Carla Vernón is heading to supplement, baby, beauty and cleaning supplies company The Honest Company.

As inflation continues to impact prices at the supermarket, U.S. consumers are spending less money buying groceries online, according to last month’s Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey.

Snack maker PeaTos announced it has secured new funding as it seeks to hit profitability in 2023. This was the third round of its Series A, dubbed A3, and was led by POST Holdings, Inc. as well as other “high profile private investors.”

Weeks after closing its acquisition of online retailer Imperfect Foods, “ugly” food marketplace Misfits Market laid off over 80 employees last week as it moves to streamline operations.