Retail

Instacart has an eye on improving the grocery industry from all angles. Today, the grocery tech platform launched a new merchandising service for brands known as Store View.

Gutzy Organic spent last year raising capital from strategic partners as it retooled its formulation and packaging to chase GLP-1 users and consumers seeking high-protein, gut-health snacks.

Several dozen food brands are outpacing category growth and trampling incumbents. As the industry remains challenged by a range of external forces, these companies continue to thrive. Who are they, and how are they doing it?

Blended meat has struggled to establish a foothold in retail but is seeing foodservice as a path forward as the category sharpens its toward health claims.

First it was snacking as a love language. Now, snack category savant Shauna Golden is diving back in to examine the relationship between the category and an omnichannel strategy.

Early-stage CPG is a narrow margin, operationally complexity space. Add in the current, on-and-off trade war and any international investment firm would likely press pause on new ventures.

Meat snack makers are leaning deeper into sticks as better-for-you brands grow distribution out of natural and into other retail channels.

A slow and steady growth strategy is Dress It Up Dressing’s secret sauce as it works to capture the “sleepy” salad dressing category, said founder and CEO Sophia Maroon.

A decade ago, direct-to-consumer meal kit subscription services like Blue Apron and HelloFresh had blanketed the market with a strong pitch to consumers centering on convenience, wellness and quality ready-to-cook food they could have shipped to their doorsteps. During the pandemic, many of these brands saw big lifts and even bigger valuations as consumers stuck at home decided to try their hand at home cooking.

The grocery industry is gearing up for a slow year as retailers across all channels – including natural, discount, mass, conventional and even third-parties like Instacart – project a deceleration in sales throughout the course of 2025.