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

Today, David Barber, co-owner of restaurants Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, announced the launch of Almanac Investments, a $30 million fund for agriculture and hospitality technology, CPG, and experiential retail companies.

As the Winter Fancy Food Show is underway, John Haugen, the VP and General Manager for General Mills’ venture arm 301 INC, reflects on his time in the industry and the lessons he has taken away from 301’s portfolio companies.

Sejoyia’s newest innovation, Coco-Thins, launched during the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco yesterday. It marks the first product since the company rebranded and narrowed its overall R&D focus to sweet snacking.

From a major snack maker launching its first protein-packed bar to industry leaders using their voice in the media to represent consumer demands, here are your top news stories of the week.

Chicago Custom Foods LLC, the maker of popcorn seasoning Kernel Season’s, was sold on Tuesday by VMG Partners and the brand’s founder, Brian Taylor, to middle-market private investment firm Highlander Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A new survey from consumer insights group IRI found that shoppers are looking online in efforts to be mindful about their spending on everything from personal care to groceries.

ICYMI: This gallery showcases some of the most impactful moments from NOSH Live Winter 2017.

Today, “ultra-fresh” food and beverage producer Urban Remedy announced it had closed a $17 million round of capital, with General Mill’s venture arm, 301 Inc, leading the round.

Since its inception, soup wholesaler and broth maker Zoup! has pursued one goal: to create “good enough to drink” products. Now the brand is doubling down on that mission by focusing on increasing its distribution efforts.

Inside Revive Kombucha’s plan to become “the next Coke of the kombucha world”; Good Karma Foods CEO on why he’s “never as good as [he] will be tomorrow”; Malibu Meals eyes a pouch-packaged future for convenient, healthy eating. This episode is presented by OWYN.

In an effort to bulk up its nutrition lineup, sports performance and supplement-maker Nature’s Bounty acquired “real food-based” nutrition bar brand The Best Bar Ever last week. The purchase adds a clean-nutrition halo brand to Nature’s Bounty’s growing portfolio of sports and nutrition products.

This week at Project NOSH, we’re looking at the top stories in technology and welcoming the robot overlords that will soon make our coffee, program our retail end-caps and sample products.

Helio, the proprietary machine learning investment algorithm developed by CircleUp to identify potential investment targets, has a new part-time gig. It’s been farmed out over the past year to a set of retailers to help them stock shelves with undiscovered but potentially worthy products.

The seal, which reads “High Pressure Certified” and is available for licensing from the CPC, will debut on select HPP juice products, with further expansion into other categories set to follow in the coming months.