Food Industry News, Insights, and Education for the CPG Community

Good Karma Foods has named Mike Murray as its new CEO as the plant-based dairy alternative producer prepares to close a new financing round led by Valor Siren Ventures (VSV) and Loft Growth Partners. Murray arrives at the Boulder, Colorado-based brand from protein solutions company Teton Waters Ranch where he had served as CEO since… Read more »

Their flagship products have a suggested retail price that is nearly double those of legacy and competing brands. And, yet, Serenity Kids is outpacing them all. In this episode, founders Serenity and Joe Carr spoke about why maintaining a premium price point is key to the brand’s value proposition, their thoughtful sourcing and operations strategies, how they developed a sophisticated understanding of the packaged food industry and their rigorous hiring process.

Cometeer, the Massachusetts-based maker of flash-frozen coffee pods, laid off a number of employees across departments last week in a move sources described as an attempt to cut costs. The innovation-focused startup, founded in 2015 by CEO Matt Roberts and CTO Douglas Hoon, had grown to over 100 employees this year, following a $35 million… Read more »

Mars has purchased whole-fruit snack maker Trü Frü in a deal aimed at helping the strategic continue to build out its presence in the snacking aisle.

Washington State’s Supreme Court extended the block on Albertsons’ $4 billion special dividend payment to shareholders late last week by granting the state attorney general’s (AG)’s request for emergency injunctive relief.

In this week’s roundup: Ynsect explores synergies with flour ingredient processor Ardent Mills; Blue Apron provides update on funding issues, Mad Capital raises $4M for regenerative ag fund and FDA amends yogurt standard of identity.

In this week’s roundup of new products, Van Leeuwen pays homage to Netflix’s newly released movie Glass Onion and TiNDLE brings plant-based chicken tenders to foodservice.

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.