Manufacturing

There’s a new-ish manufacturer in town. After Flavor Reddy Foods grew its food manufacturing footprint via M&A in the past two years, the company is bringing the combined businesses together under one new entity, Trillium Foods.

Dr. Bronner’s has transferred ownership of its 10-SKU chocolate bar line to Magic Chocolate Inc., a new entity formed by the brand’s long-term partners to help scale the line independent of Dr. Bronner’s business.

Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches is moving operations to a 29,000 sq. ft. facility with a $5.8 million investment in partnership with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.

Food coloring, flavoring and extract producer Sensient published a notice warning the industry that current regulatory pressure to phase out synthetic food colors could result in supply shortages.

Protein needs no introduction to any food category, and particularly not pasta. The protein-enriched pasta market has now converted a legacy, premium player to pump yellow peas into its tradition-entrenched production process.

Frozen Chinese street food brand MìLà is platforming with noodle kits as it shifts its focus from DTC to a retail-first strategy.

As Ibraheem Basir, founder and CEO of A Dozen Cousins, began to strategize his business’ next stage of growth, there was one major capability on his mind, and the route to secure it was poised to provide much more support than someone simply cutting a check.

Today, the plant-based dairy creamery is rolling out its latest innovation – an Unsweetened, plain Greek-style yogurt – as proof it is possible to balance high levels of plant-derived protein while maintaining a product’s palatability.

It started with a simple bag of grain. Later that grain was processed into chips. But the fun really ramped up when Yolélé turned fonio into a limited-edition beer.

The chocolate category is consolidating. Today, branded and private label chocolate manufacturer Chocolate Works announced its acquisition of 150-year-old Thompson Chocolate, which produces specialty and foil-wrapped chocolate novelties.