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

The industry is buzzing with predictions about the future of food in 2018. While no one has a crystal ball to know what the new year might bring, we do have data and reports from industry experts making their best educated guesses.

Cold brew won’t save the world. Just ask Chameleon Cold-Brew co-founder and CEO Chris Campbell; How Golden Road’s Meg Gill is paving a gilded path for craft at Anheuser-Busch; The Tribali take on grass-fed meat. This episode is presented by OWYN.

During his presentation at NOSH Live Winter in Santa Monica, California, earlier this month, Adnan Durrani spoke about his experience building the Halal-focused food brand and what he learned from working with investors.

This year was filled with brand consolidations, new line creations and engaging conversations around how the natural products industry could continue to grow — and Project NOSH covered it all. Here are the most read stories on NOSH over the past year.

The nonprofit trade organization has submitted a proposal to create an updated definition and a set of “harmonized” international guidelines for the use of probiotics in foods and dietary supplements.

Everyone’s heard “15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more in car insurance.” Well folks, we don’t know much about the business of insuring your 2009 Honda Accord, but we can tell you that taking 15 minutes to listen to this special edition of Taste Radio could be a game-changer for you and your company.

With a record amount of money flowing into the packaged food and beverage industry, and with a lot more to come in 2018, cooperation, rather than competition, is the rising tide. Here are some reasons why we anticipate that 2018 will be a landmark year of “Coopetition.”

From a major CPG giant looking to promote a more inclusive workforce to a drinkable refrigerated soup brand looking to broaden its platform, companies large and small grew their staff in recent months. Here is the latest in hiring news within the natural food world.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to break into the food and beverage business… but it doesn’t hurt. Just ask Vital Proteins founder Kurt Seidensticker; something’s BRUing in the trendy world of bone broth; is basil seed an ingredient to watch in 2018?

Yesterday, Canadian natural food company GreenSpace Brands announced it had acquired Galaxy Nutritional Foods, the producer of Go Veggie plant-based dairy products, from investment firm Mill Road Capital. The deal allows GreenSpace to bring their other Canadian brands to U.S. stores and enter the plant-based dairy category.

The food world was rocked Monday by two deals that carried a combined $6.5 billion in value, both designed to allow companies with declining core business areas rearrange their portfolios around growing premium snack lines.

Today, Impossible launched a new sales channel with DOT Foods, America’s largest food redistributor, to gets its burgers in more restaurants nationally. On Monday, Beyond Meat announced its first venture beyond burgers with Beyond Sausage.

Friday’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would decouple animal welfare standards from federal regulations around organic certification has caused outcry and debate among natural and organic food industry leaders. Now, the Organic Trade Association and its allies believe the rule’s withdrawal will impact food sourcing, pricing and certification, both for packaged and fresh food alike.

Today, two young companies operating in evolving routes to market, Daily Harvest and AxleHire, both found fuel to burn via multi-million dollar investment rounds. The raises are indicative of rising interest in direct-to-consumer sales and subscription models, both for millennial consumers and investors alike.