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

This week American Halal Company announced that it has acquired Mediterranean Snack Foods Company, LLC. The addition of Mediterranean Snack gives a significant boost to the company’s snack portfolio.

Natural beverage company Califia Farms has bolstered its leadership team, adding Dan Mader, formerly of Annie’s Inc., as Senior Vice President of Sales. Prior to Annie’s, Mader worked on other CPG brands at Clorox, and Cadbury-Schweppes.

This week 365 by Whole Foods Market President Jeff Turnas revealed 365 construction partners and additions to the leadership team in an internal message to Whole Foods Market team members.

Stericycle ExpertSOLUTIONS, a global business-to-business services company that offers services related to product recalls, examined recalls in Q2 2015 and found a rise in recalls related to “healthy” foods.

Target held its quarterly earnings call today and spoke briefly about the company’s new focus on “wellness” food and beverage products.

Changes to the leadership teams at Target Corporation, ConAgra Foods and Galaxy Nutritional Foods were announced today.

In a recent blog post, market research firm Mintel explores the rise of “bitter” as a flavor profile in beverages and snack foods.

Market research publisher Packaged Facts recently delved deeper into the financial outlook of the non-GMO market in their report “Non-GMO Foods: U.S. and Global Market Perspective, 2nd Edition.”

Scott LaPorta, the new president and general manager at Campbell’s-owned Bolthouse Farms, offers insights into the $900 million juice and produce innovator’s new position within the larger company’s recently unveiled Campbells-Fresh (C-Fresh) division.

Readers of my last two columns get the point quickly: food and beverage companies in the natural products industry should strive for racial and ethnic diversity. To that end, now we’re going to think about solutions: practices that the industry and its component companies can inaugurate to spur both employee and entrepreneurial diversity.

No matter the innovation or quality of its products, brands can’t reach full sales potential until they have a mutually beneficial and strategic relationship with their retailers.

Giving attendees all they need to know to understand the dynamic world of food and beverage entrepreneurialism, this full-day business education and networking conference will take place on September 30 in Boston, MA.

David Sprinkle, a research director for Packaged Facts, cites “evidence that the percentage of men who are now the primary shoppers in their households has more than doubled in the past two decades.”