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

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.

This week’s roundup of new products saw brands kicking off the winter holiday season early with peppermint-flavored seasonal offerings , tipping the Scoville scale with new hot sauces and creating better-for-you chocolate truffles.

In this week’s roundup: CPG execs take action on regenerative ag, New Culture names new investment partner, celebrity chef Kai Chase launches new spice platform and Impossible’s patent holds up amid fight with Motif.

Amid continued efforts to ramp up its omnichannel growth, Los Angeles-based specialty coffee brand Chamberlain Coffee has named Liz Ahern as chief marketing officer, where she will be tasked with overseeing brand strategy, distribution expansion and integrated campaign planning and execution across all marketing touchpoints.

Albertsons is working to overturn a temporary restraining order (TRO) “as quickly as possible,” in order to unshackle its ability to divvy up $4 million in special cash dividend payments to shareholders, previously set to be paid on Monday, November 7.

Don’t call Whole30 a diet. It’s a lifestyle or, as the brand calls it, a “self-experiment.” It’s this mindset that has enabled the 13-year-old Whole30 plan to continue to attract new devotees as well as retain existing members while other diets have waxed and waned. At NOSH Live Winter 2022 on December 1 and 2… Read more »

On this week’s show, the NOSH team discuss creators embracing the CPG industry and Charley Cummings, founder and CEO of Walden Mutual talks about the company’s plans for creating a digital bank that can be “means to an end” for a more sustainable, locally-focused food system.

Joe Oblas, has departed Stryve Foods, the meat snacks company he co-founded in 2017. According to Oblas and trademark filings, the company will be adding new products in the pet food category.

The Kellogg Company reported Thursday morning $4.1 billion in organic net sales and raised its full-year 2022 guidance on the back of its strong snack category growth during its third quarter earnings report.

Global snack giant Mondelēz International reported an 8.1% increase in net revenues during Q3, largely driven by organic revenue growth and the impact of recent acquisitions including Clif Bar and Greek snack brand portfolio Chipita.