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

After reporting “disappointing” revenues, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown told analysts on the company’s third quarter earnings call that he is taking “aggressive measures” to right the ship at the plant-based meat brand.

After nearly a year on the market, Rollin n’ Bowlin officially separated its nut butter-filled date business from the brand’s brick and mortar smoothie stores last week, aiming to build the line out under its newly-established snack platform, realsy.

The team talks about chaos in the food world and NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg talks to Jason and Mia Bauer, co-founders of Crumbs Bakeshop, about relaunching the popular bakery brand and shifting it from a brick-and-mortar model to a CPG line of treats.

Dirty Hands, one of the CPG industry’s largest merchandising firms, laid off employees from across the company last week in a move to refocus its business on the natural channel.

Consumers will be looking for more nutrient dense, cognitive-supporting, shelf stable, cosmically-marketed products in the new year, according to Mintel.

From bags of Chamberlain Coffee to Feastable chocolate bars, leading social media content creators like Emma Chamberlain and Jimmy Donaldson (“MrBeast”) are piling into product launches, taking massive youth audiences and turning them into brand obsessives. The C in CPG is morphing from Consumer to Celebrity to Creative – and we’ll analyze and understand this transformation at NOSH Live Winter 2022, taking place on Dec. 1 and 2.

Flat quarterly net revenue growth and a sequential, 11.7% revenue decline year-over-year, coupled with a delay to its $57 million private placement funding from RJB Partners LLC, has caused meal delivery service Blue Apron to pull its yearly revenue guidance.

Brewer’s spent grain has often seemed like a perfect fit for upcycled food companies but the challenges to getting widespread adoption by breweries goes beyond supply and demand.

New York-based organic and natural products company Hain Celestial announced today that net sales for Q1 FY2023 decreased 3% year-over-year to $439.4 million.

Shelf-stable, direct-to-consumer meal brand Proper Good has closed a $3.5 million seed funding round to support its recent expansion into brick and mortar retail with a rollout to over 2,000 Walmart stores nationwide.

Transitioning to regenerative agriculture, utilizing upcycled food streams, adopting plant-based lifestyles and, of course, reducing carbon footprints, are set to play key roles in current global conversations around climate change.

Low-sugar dessert spread TBH has announced co-founder Ba Minuzzi will step into the role of co-CEO alongside existing CEO Elana Guberman.

Ontario-based meat and plant-based foods producer Maple Leaf Foods has suffered a system outage due to a “cybersecurity incident,” the company announced Sunday. In a press release, the company – Canada’s largest meat and poultry producer – said it “took immediate action and engaged cybersecurity and recovery experts” to restore the system, but noted it… Read more »

Fresh off the release of her new book, Sweet Success – A Simple Manual for Turning Your Passion into Profit, Candace Nelson, the founder of Sprinkles, a signature national cupcake bakery chain with 40+ store and cupcake ATM locations, a noted investor, author, baking show judge, and advocate for entrepreneurs will inspire and inform the audience at NOSH Live Winter 2022.