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

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.

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 »