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For the first time in its over 12-year history, Stone & Skillet has changed its visual identity. The new branding brings a skillet illustration to the logo and adds brighter colors to differentiate flavors.

Reporting a 15.6% decline in net revenue last year, Beyond Meat began 2026 with “reduced leverage and extended debt maturity” with added liquidity, president and CEO Ethan Brown announced in the company’s Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings report this week.

Procure Impact is working to solve the pain points of the hospitality channel, serving as a marketplace and platform for mission driven emerging brands to reach all of the major hotel management companies.

The Hershey Company announced this week it will shift back to the “classic milk and dark chocolate recipes” in all Reese’s and Hershey’s products by 2027, following months of criticism over ingredient quality, as reported by Bloomberg.

This week on the podcast, Nosh managing editor Monica Watrous and senior reporter Brad Avery unpack the McCormick-Unilever merger, Constellation Brands’ purchase of HOP WTR, Create Wellness’ fresh funding-fueled expansion, and Q Mixers’ move into functional beverages.

After conquering popcorn, Khloé Kardashian’s functional snack brand is taking on a bigger, crunchier prize: tortilla chips.

The Nosh team tastes two innovative takes on classic comfort foods. Arriba Foods’ latest product innovation is a line of fire-roasted Mexican barbecue sauces packaged in squeeze bottles. Lily’s Toaster Grills is a new frozen sandwich line that aims to deliver a hot, crispy grilled cheese experience straight from the toaster.

In another leadership shakeup at freeze-dried candy manufacturer Sow Good, CEO David Lazar has resigned after less than three months at the helm, according to an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Packaged food giant Conagra Brands returned to organic sales growth in the third quarter, driven by strong performance in its Frozen and Snacks segments, even as rising costs and inflationary pressures weighed on profitability.

Paris-based Standing Ovation has secured a $34.2 million Series B to scale dairy protein production using precision fermentation technology.

There was a time when an April Fools’ stunt could be delightfully dumb – a clear joke, a quick laugh, maybe a viral tweet. In 2026, that same playbook feels shaky.

Unilever’s divestment of its frozen division hasn’t cooled the cold war between it and Ben & Jerry’s as the ice cream brand’s former board chair is now suing the conglomerate, alongside current parent The Magnum Ice Cream Company, for allegedly undermining its social mission.

An attention-getting class action suit alleging that David Protein misled customers by “drastically understating” the calories and fat content in its protein bars has been voluntarily dismissed, according to a March 30 court filing.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) unveiled a new loan program aimed at supporting small businesses across the domestic food supply chain.