CPG Week Podcast

This week, the Nosh and BevNET team gear up for Natural Products Expo West and discuss their various preparation strategies for the big show.

The Nosh and BevNET team talks cereal struggles, energy drink earnings, up-and-down reports from plant-based industry leaders and Whole Foods’ newest attempt at a smaller footprint store concept.

This week’s podcast dives into the FTC’s challenge to the $24.6B Kroger/Albertsons merger, the potential of yaupon in energy beverages, and why Mason Dixie is betting consumers want more clean comfort food.

This week the BevNET and Nosh team discusses Poppi acquisition rumors, the investment landscape, and consumer adoption of functional mushrooms.

This week the team talks about cell-cultured meat’s many challenges and why unrealistic investment might be dragging down food tech companies.

In the first episode of CPG Week, Nosh Managing Editor Monica Watrous and reporters Brad Avery and Lukas Southard sit down to discuss the various M&A deals seen so far in the first month of the year.

In a special dispatch from Las Vegas, the Nosh team spoke with Specialty Food Association trendspotters about the latest food and beverages on display at this year’s Winter Fancy Food Show.

On this week’s episode of the NOSH Podcast, the team talks Thanksgiving traditions and what is to come at NOSH Live. Then dives into influencer disclosures on social media (or the lack thereof) after the FTC recently sent out warning letters.

On this week’s show, NOSH editor Carol Ortenberg and the founder and CEO of Zack’s Mighty, Zack Gazzaniga, dive right into a corny discussion on the origins of the brand, its special corn supply chain journey and how different audiences respond to the details of that story.

In this week’s NOSH Podcast, Brazi Bites cofounder and CMO Junea Rocha shares how and why the brand expanded into breakfast and the often difficult process of product development.