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News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries

12-Jan-2024

TOP HEADLINES

Starbucks banks on Grupo Bimboâs Servitje to push its Triple Shot Reinvention with Two Pumps strategy

Starbucks is tapping the operational expertise of Daniel Servijte â along with the media streaming knowhow of YouTubeâs Neal Mohan and the consumer tech proficiency of T-Mobileâs Mike Sievert â to guide its Reinvention Strategy.... Read more

What do Bio&Me, SRSLY Low Carb, Fearne & Rosie and Olly's have in common to make the 2024 Startups 100 Index?

Startups has revealed its 16th Startups 100 Index, which celebrates the UKâs most disruptive new businesses founded in the past five years.... Read more

Egg prices jump as avian flu spreads, pushing up overall food prices, CPI reveals

The Consumer Price Index released today shows the price of eggs is climbing again as producers scramble to contain a highly contagious outbreak of avian flu that the US Department of Agriculture estimates has infected more than 50 flocks in the last 30 days.... Read more

Do consumers want to eat upcycled food?

Upcycling food is a good way of putting food to use that may otherwise have gone to waste. However, not all consumers will eat food that has been upcycled. A new study takes a broad look at 37 research articles on consumer acceptance, or lack thereof, of upcycled foods.... Read more

King Arthur Baking Company launches new accelerator programme to champion bakers and entrepreneurs of colour

King Arthur Baking Company has partnered with Project Potluck to launch Baking Pitchfest 2024 to foster greater inclusivity, equitable opportunity and creativity in the baking world.... Read more

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EDITOR'S CHOICE

What it takes to build a thriving brand in a tough retail market: insight from founder of Proper Snacks

Cassandra Stavrou delves into her journey as a challenger brand and the successes and failures along the way, resulting in one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK healthy snack category.... Read more

Eddie takes cookie decoration to the next level

Eddie by Primera Technology is the worldâs first GMP and NSF certified edible ink printer that uses food colouring to print logos, pictures and celebratory messages directly onto cookies, macarons and confections.... Watch now

GLOBAL INDUSTRY NEWS

High-level delegates set to attend World Cocoa Foundation's Partnership Meeting in Amsterdam

The World Cocoa Foundationâs Partnership Meeting promises two days of busy high-level discussions when leading industry figures gather in Amsterdam from 6 to 7 February. ConfectioneryNews is the official media partner and shall be reporting live from the event held this year in the historic Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam as part of Amsterdam Cocoa Week.... Read more

Exports: Top tips for UK food and drink firms looking to explore foreign markets

Cameron Gordon, founding partner and head of client growth at Incite, shares advice for food and drink firms in the UK that hope to develop an international export channel.... Read more

[Video] âThe worst is behind us,â Why 2024 might be a better year for private equity funding in food, beverage

Private-equity firm Forward Consumer Partners started 2024 with an oversubscribed $425m debut fund, at a time that the private equity markets might be opening to food and beverage companies, Matt Leeds, managing partner at private equity firm Forward Consumer Partners, shared with FoodNavigator-USA during a video interview.... Watch now

M&MâS Cookie Dough hits the shelves across Australia

Brand owner Mars Wrigley is rolling out a new flavour âworld-firstâ innovation across Australia this month, combining consumersâ love of chocolate & cookie dough into one bite-sized treat.... Read more

US sugar taxes cut sugary beverage purchases by 33% across five key cities

Sugar taxes in Boulder, Colorado; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Oakland, California; San Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington were associated with a 33% reduction in purchases by volume, according to a study published this month.... Read more

Bottled water can contain thousands of particles of nanoplastics, research suggests

Microplastics, which research suggests could be harmful to human health, are well-known infiltrators of a wide variety of food and beverages. Now, researchers have found that nanoplastics, the even smaller offspring of microplastics, are present in stratospheric quantities in bottled water, unbeknownst to us until now.... Read more

PREVIOUS HEADLINES

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