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Tracking CPG Growth: Q3 US Retail Launches – Calebrate October 2026
CPG retail launch activity accelerated throughout Q3 2026, but the underlying data reveals an important distinction between new product innovation and distribution expansion. Calebrate’s latest report tracks 1,403 announced retail launches across more than 160 retailers, with weekly launch activity increasing from 88 in July to 112 in September.
Daily Harvest Announces Five-Chain Retail Expansion
Daily Harvest is expanding its retail footprint, with Marianne’s growing in Target and Archer bringing new SKUs to the club channel.
Bare Beans Launches Ready-to-Eat Bean Packs After $2.79M Seed Round
After years building in foodservice, Bare Bean is taking its ready-to-eat, vacuum sealed bean business to the consumer level.
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SPINS: Natural Snacks Rapidly Outpace Conventional Counterparts
Natural products are swiftly outpacing conventional products across retail channels, growing 13% in conventional grocery in the 52 weeks ending March 22, according to SPINS.
New Jersey Becomes Latest State to Prohibit ‘Surveillance Pricing’ on Groceries
New Jersey is the latest state pushing back against the use of consumer data in grocery pricing, with Gov. Mike Sherrill signing legislation that prohibits retailers from using personal information to set individualized grocery prices.
Nosh Impact 50: The People Shaping Food’s Next Chapter
The inaugural Nosh Impact 50 list recognizes the founders, executives, investors, retailers, policymakers and ecosystem builders whose decisions are having an outsized effect on the future of packaged food.
Albertsons Restructures Into Four Regions, Centralizes Center-Store Merchandising
Albertsons Companies is overhauling its operating structure as the grocery giant looks to speed decision-making, improve in-stock performance and better leverage its scale following the collapse of its proposed merger with Kroger.
CPG Week Podcast: Utz Goes Private, Sèchey Shifts, Final Boss Sour Levels Up
This week on the podcast, Nosh managing editor Monica Watrous and senior reporter Lukas Southard discuss Utz Brands’ $2.9 billion acquisition by Germany’s Intersnack Group and Sèchey’s decision to exit brick-and-mortar retail in favor of a technology platform. The hosts also chat about Final Boss Sour’s $4 million funding round and Yerba Madre’s leadership transition.
Häppy Candy Makes Whole Foods Debut in Select Northeast, South Pacific Stores
Häppy Candy is rolling out to select Whole Foods Market stores across the Northeast and South Pacific regions after completing the retailer’s Local And Emerging Brands Accelerator Program (LEAP)
Perfect Snacks Bets on New Formats, Ecommerce as Sales Surge
Refrigerated protein bar pioneer Perfect Snacks is doubling down on innovation as sales surge and mainstream momentum behind the brand’s core tenets picks up.
Backflip Built A Kids’ Cereal For the YouTube Generation
Backflip is a new kid-positioned cereal brand, utilizing its co-founder and YouTube creator Ben Azerlart to bring cartoons back to the set.
Final Boss Sour Raises $4M Ahead of Walmart, Target Expansion
Final Boss Sour announced today it has raised a $4 million “strategic funding round” from new and existing investors including Evolution VC Partners, The Angel Group, Mondelez International SnackFutures Ventures, Melitas Ventures and GFR Fund, among others.
Consumers Are Redefining Value – and Retailers Are Betting on Exclusives
After years of private label growth cannibalizing branded market share, consumers are once again redefining value. The new, evolving definition doesn’t have as much to do with price as it does the experience.