The US cereal and snack giant unveiled Leaf Jerky at Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this month, mooted to appeal to vegan, vegetarians and flexitarians alike.
Fresh off the heels of announcing a snacking innovation center in Chicago, the company will offload a part of the business it absorbed in the October 2018 deal with Pinnacle Foods.
As kids head back to the classroom, we scoured the snack-o-sphere for a sneak peek into what they’ll be enjoying in the cafeteria. From raisins to fruit cups, green cereal to customizable bags of chips, this school year has lots to offer in the way of...
Shortly after releasing its 2019 fiscal year earnings, the soup and snack company said it would sell UK-based Kettle Foods and Netherlands-based Yellow Chips to a private equity firm.
PepsiCo India is looking to double its local snacks business by 2022, based on an all-round local focus spanning people, ingredients, manufacturing, along with investment of some INR5.14bn (US$71mn).
Fabcon Food Systems in the UK has partnered with Italian process maker Engi Technologies, which make presses for non-fried snacks and rice cakes, to integrate its machinery technology.
The Minneapolis-based food giant has announced a series of changes to its management team, including the retirement of CFO Don Mulligan - a 20-year company veteran - and the promotion of its US cereal lead to the European and Austalian division.
The baking and confectionery supplier will sponsor the Baking Expo’s first ‘Artisan Marketplace,’ where guests can taste and learn about sourdough breads and time-tested techniques in a European-style café setting. BakeryandSnacks chats to Puratos USA...
Pretzels Inc. has hired two R&D leads and one board member with plenty of pretzel experience as it continues a 120k-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing facility in Plymouth, Indiana.
Indulgent snacking meets functional ingredients in this week’s roundup through high-fiber chocolate, on-the-go tahini and chocolate-covered French butter cookies. Plus, Lucky Charms skips the cereal.
Similar to consumer trends in retail, home bakers are opting for bite-sized baked goods and healthier ingredients – making a star of citrus, coconut and hibiscus, though seasonal favorites hold strong.
Pots & Co, a London-based dessert manufacturer, is set to boost its international trade after securing a £1.2m funding package from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, supported by UK Export Finance.
Perfect Snax’ Snack Pop – the name behind Mrs. Fields’ and Butterfinger-flavored popcorn – has joined forces with the pasta-chip brand of Vintage Italia, to improve distribution and marketing.
Brand Finance's 2019 rankings placed Nestlé as the most valuable food brand with the world’s largest food & drink brand portfolio – breaking the $70bn mark – while Kellogg's landed in fourth and Lay's in eighth. PepsiCo's Quaker...
Cake sales increased by $226m last year, but overall, the fresh department broadly must recommit to compete with the growing centerstore and CPG launches, says IRI.
Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) have developed a superfood bread using Australian native bush ingredients harvested by Aboriginal communities.
Small brands and major players launch new flavors for summer snacking, with a focus on intense crunch and big flavor. We take a look at the launches hitting at the height of the season.
Conagra’s legion of high-selling brands – including Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP, Slim Jim and Snack Pack – are launching new products this year as the company cements its focus on the lucrative snacking market.
Bosch has agreed to sell its packaging machinery business in Waiblingen, Germany, to a newly incorporated entity managed by CVC Capital Partners (CVC), at the end of the year for an undisclosed amount.
The CPG giant is bringing two upcycled concepts to market through its SnackFutures hub, including jerky made from cacao fruit and chips made from vegetable scraps.
Frito-Lay has partnered with the fast food chain in the US market to develop a signature sandwich featuring the cheese-flavored cornmeal snack paired with a Cheetos-flavored sauce.
The German snack conglomerate has procured a minority stake in the Australia and New Zealand units of Philippines-based peer Universal Robina Corp. (URC), giving it greater exposure down south.
The Wisconsin-based cheese company has extended its Balanced Breaks snack pack line – a breakout star for the brand since its 2015 debut – with a sweet-and-savory breakfast version.
DoubleTree Hotels’ cookie dough will travel in late 2019 to the International Space Station (ISS) in a shuttle carrying a prototype oven built to withstand long-duration space flights.
Mondelēz International is acquiring a majority interest in Perfect Snacks – a pioneer of the refrigerated nutrition snacking category – to grow its wellbeing offerings.
Parent company Ardent Mills strives to bring more unique ingredients to bakers by prioritizing its partner growers, such as the recently announced collaboration with Colorado Quinoa.
The American Egg Board (AEB), speaking at this year’s International Food Technologists expo held June 2-5 in New Orleans, shared ways to incorporate out-of-shell egg products into snacks that satisfy demand for protein and clean labels.
Pringles has tapped into the Indian consumer's love for cricket to bowl over a Guiness World Record for creating the ‘largest sentence made with packaged food.’
Sebastian Emig, director general of the European Snacks Association, outlines the upcoming Snackex – held every second year – that congregates the entire value savory snacks chain in one place.
Biscuit International snaps up Dutch cake and biscuit firm Aviateur in its aggressive drive to become ‘a major player in the European private-label sweet biscuit market.’
The rush to the so-called ‘shining new kid on the block’ – as Marcia Mogelonsky, director of Insight at Mintel Food and Drink terms it – has ignited like a wildfire and everyone is talking about it. But will it make vogue status?
The frozen baked snack brand has expanded beyond its flagship product, Brazilian cheese bites, in its quest to become a more holistic Latin American food company.
Be it a slab of a chip or one that features a ‘breakthrough’ crispy crunch; a bowl of ice cream or Cookies ‘n Crème cereal for breakfast; or partying it up with a soda flavored cake bite or a big bucket of low cal biccies; we’ve scoured the shelves to...
Not all snacks are equal, according to Jaren Koerten, head of packaged food at Euromonitor: some have attained premium status, while others are ‘in the process’ of premiumization.
From ‘real fruit’ and ‘gently dried’ to ‘no artificial preservatives,’ these natural call-outs permeated the floor at the annual packaged foods exposition in Chicago, sponsored by the National Confectioners Association.
We talked with Euromonitor analyst Jared Koerten at the National Confectioners Association’s annual expo in Chicago about the rise of premium snacks, textured candies, functional ingredients and consumption occasions. Here’s what he had to say.*
Sandwich chain Pret a Manger plans to give its Veggie Pret spin-off a turbo boost with new outlets, following the acquisition of smaller rival Eat in Veggie in response to the growing demand for vegetarian and vegan grab-and-go options.
