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Featured Manufacturing Content
Behind Big Picture Foods’ Big Move Across Aisles
Big Picture Foods has always had a vision that goes beyond its flagship line of fermented, organic and regeneratively-grown olives, peppers and capers. Now, three years after the company’s launch, that picture is starting to come into view.
From Bees To A Business Model: Inside Mellody’s Plan To Build A Plant-Based Honey Market
Mellody is readying to substantially scale up its plant-based honey business through a new retail distribution partnership with KeHE, starting with Town & Country Markets in the Pacific Northwest region.
Accelerating Ag: Inside Snacktivist’s Pivot From CPG to Supplier
Snacktivist Foods, a regenerative agriculture-focused baking mix brand, is putting its CPG line on the back burner while it works to spearhead a new ingredient supply and brokerage service.
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To Expo Or Not To Expo?: Brands Share Why They Skipped Anaheim This Year
In the current macroeconomic environment some brands have become increasingly more strategic about where they set up a booth. We caught up with a few of them to learn why they did not make the trip to Anaheim this year.
Making Waves With Microalgae: Meet Algae Cooking Club
Algae Cooking Club launched earlier this year and immediately began to make waves in the industry and online. But, despite the rising popularity of macroalgae – a group that includes seaweed, sea moss, kelp and other ocean-hailing ingredients – in food and beverage products, Algae Cooking Club (ACC) identifies with a completely separate group.
Expo West: ZenB’s Path To Brand Building With A Simple Pea Ingredient
Yellow pea-powered pantry staple brand ZenB has grown its lineup to span pastas, sides and snacks with a single legume as its North Star. The brand has quickly innovated and entered new categories – but how does it decide what comes next?
Believe It’s Not Butter: Premium Brands & Alternatives Seek Category Breakthrough
From butter boards and exotic flavors to premium $11 Les Pres Sales Sea Salt Camargue butter and refrigerated ghee sticks, there’s been plenty of buzz coming out of the solid cooking fats category.
Maine Crisp Co. Survives “Heartbreak” After Production Facility Flood
Maine Crisp has finally regained its footing as it prepares to go to Expo West and launch nationwide in Whole Foods after a mid-December “100-year” storm and flood wiped out nearly all of the company’s inventory, ingredients and packaging.
Manufacturing Matchmaker: Keychain Uses AI To Bring “Transparency” To CPG Production
Keychain’s AI-driven B2B digital tool aims to bring transparency and simplicity to the CPG landscape by streamlining matchmaking between brands and retailers searching for compatible manufacturing partners.
How to Build A Brand with Capital Efficiency Top of Mind
Hear from LesserEvil president and CEO Charles Coristine about the ways the snack brand maintains a focus on capital efficiency. The result: new products, new retail channels, new investment capital and new manufacturing facilities, with every quarter either break-even or profitable depending on whether the aim is revenue or margin growth. Being efficient with capital is a strategy companies of all sizes need to master in order to grow sustainably.
Quinn Snacks Calls Quits on Popcorn as it Pushes Forward on Salty Snacks
Quinn Snacks is discontinuing its microwave popcorn SKUs in favor of focusing exclusively on its higher-margin pretzel products.
MingsBings Broadens Portfolio to Sell Meat-Based Products, Citing Slower Uptake of Alt-Meat
Moving outside the vegan space for the first time, frozen food brand MingsBings is adding four meat-based varieties to its lineup this week in a bid to broaden its consumer audience.
NOSH Podcast: One Brand’s Three Keys to Success In Product Development
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.