| From 01-Mar-2019 to 08-Mar-2019 |
SPONSORED MESSAGE | | | Diverse Latin Cuisines Draw Diners The sophistication of Latin cuisine is attracting todays diners as chefs incorporate more regional dishes, unique ingredients and cooking techniques into their menu offerings. Watch Chef Ray Garcia of LAs Broken Spanish prepare... Click Here |
Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Unilever is doubling-down on purpose driven brands to fuel innovation With newcomers launching practically every day in the food and beverage industry, the pressure is on for legacy brands to up their innovation game and according to industry giant Unilever the best way to do this is to start with modern consumers core values and address their top concerns... Listen now Investing in the Future of Food: Look beyond the obvious when fundraising, advises Kuli Kuli CEO The frequency with which food and beverage startups in the US secure multi-million dollar investments in early fundraising rounds might lead some entrepreneurs to believe earning capital is easy but the founder of the moringa company Kuli Kuli says nothing could be further from the truth... Watch now Square Roots takes 'ultra-scalable' urban indoor farming shipping container model nationwide Brooklyn-born Square Roots, an urban indoor vertical farming startup, is taking its ultra-scalable, modular model to new markets through an exclusive partnership with Gordon Food Service (GFS)... Read Sprouts, Whole Foods, to rollout plant-based JUST Egg nationwide JUST Egg - a plant-based scrambled egg alternative from Just Inc made with mung bean protein is rolling out nationwide at Sprouts this month and Whole Foods Market next month, says CEO Josh Tetrick, who claims the product is largely incremental to the category... Read Advocates hopeful that Gottliebs departure wont derail drive toward new CBD rules The advocates for the reformation of the regulation of hemp derivatives in nutritional products were clinging to the hope that the abrupt resignation of FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb will not mean the initiative will be stillborn... Read Kraft Heinz Springboard unveils second incubator class: Blakes Seed Based, BRAMI, Ka-Pop! Origin Almond, Tiny Giants Springboard a Kraft Heinz platform dedicated to nurturing and scaling disruptive US brands - has unveiled its second incubator class, spanning lupini bean snacks, seed-packed bars, plant-based yogurt, ancient grain snacks, and cold pressed almond juice... Read Class action litigation vs food & beverage brands continued unabated in 2018, says Perkins Coie The number of class action filings against food and beverage companies rose 9% to 158 in 2018, with firms vulnerable to legal action on a host of fronts, from slack fill to natural claims, says law firm Perkins Coie... Read Water likely to account for biggest segment of CBD beverages category, predicts Cowen US sales of beverages infused with hemp-derived CBD are predicted to reach $600m in 2019, and approach $1bn in 2020, with water accounting for two thirds of the market, predict analysts at Cowen, which believes that US CBD can conservatively generate sales of $16bn by 2025... Read Kite Hill unveils new look, new products, at Expo West Kite Hill a leading player in the fast-growing plant-based dairy category utilizing cultured almondmilk to create cream cheeses, yogurts and filled pastas will be unveiling a new logo, package design and strapline (plant based artisans) at the Natural Products Expo West trade show this week... Read RightRice raises $5.5m led by Strand Equity and celebrity investors RightRice, the brainchild of Popchips co-founder Keith Belling, has closed a $5.5m minority investment led by Strand Equity and a roster of celebrity investors and industry veterans, including Impossible Foods, COO David Lee, and celebrities Karlie Kloss, Kris Jenner, Ashley Graham, Molly Sims, Jillian Michaels, and Wesley Perez... Read Coconut Collaborative gears up for major 'tipping point' in the plant-based yogurt category: 'All the plant-based yogurts are raising their game' Coconut Collaborative has expanded distribution to more than 1,000 stores since launching in the US last year, and according to co-founder Edward Averdieck, the brand is hitting its stride just as the plant-based yogurt market is showing signs of becoming a mainstream force... Read RISE Brewing Co. moves beyond nitro cold brew coffee with launch of clean-label oat milk at Expo West Nitro cold brew company RISE Brewing Co. is hoping the same strategies it used to successfully carve out a niche in the highly competitive ready-to-drink-coffee segment will help it win again, but this time in the increasingly crowded oat milk category... Read ZPA NOMA rebrands as Medlie to better reflect its expanding portfolio of snackable vegetables After helping to pioneer the nascent drinkable soup segment, the startup ZPA NOMA is ready to expand into adjacent categories with a fresh look, different name and new products... Read All-natural lawsuits were designed to destroy the reputation of LaCroix in the minds of consumers, says brand owner Tests from Florida-based lab Beta Analytic prove that the allegations in a recent lawsuit challenging LaCroixs all natural claims are false and devoid of legal and factual merit, claims LaCroix brand owner National Beverage Corporation (NBC)... Read NEWS IN BRIEF Ingredion expands starch capabilities with new acquisition Ingredion has acquired privately-held potato starch producer Western Polymer in Washington state, expanding the company's potato starch manufacturing capacity and processing capabilities... Read Beanfields CEO brings about brand revival: 'Our addressable market is anybody that wants a good tasting chip' Despite being around since 2010, bean chip brand Beanfields is now experiencing the kind of growth (i.e. triple digit sales growth in January 2019) most food and beverage startups see in their first few years on the market... Read Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: How is the flood of investment funds reshaping the food & beverage space? Whether through multi-million dollar investments in startups or high dollar mergers and acquisitions of larger, established companies, the food and beverage industry currently is being flooded with funding, and with it many opportunities as well as challenges... Listen now |
SPONSORED MESSAGE | | | The plant-based solutions you need to succeed. ADM offers a range of minimally processed, organic and gluten-free plant-based protein options, all of which blend seamlessly with our line of natural taste and flavor solutions. So you can innovate products your consumers will love... Click Here | Could a fat replacer developed in the 80s hit the big time in the 2020s? 'This is not another Olestra,' stresses Epogee Three decades after the technology was first developed, Epogee (formerly Choco Finesse) is gearing up for a commercial launch of fat replacers called EPGs (esterified propoxylated glycerols) which can reduce calories from fat by up to 92% without impacting taste or texture. But will consumers and manufacturers - who are increasingly avoiding chemical-sounding ingredients - buy in?.. Read Chr. Hansens LGG probiotic now available for fermented plant-based yogurts and other products Chr. Hansen is tapping into the growing demand for plant-based dairy products with the launch of nu-trish LGG DA, a version of its Lactobacillus rhamnosus LGG strain designed for fermented plant-based dairy... Read ‘WE’VE HAD PUSHBACK [OVER GENETIC ENGINEERING] FOR YEARS NOW, BUT THE CONVERSATION HAS TO CHANGE’ Motif Ingredients CEO: 'The idea that technology may need to play a role in food is becoming more and more acceptable' If printing out DNA sequences that instruct yeast or bacteria to express proteins identical to those in eggs or milk in big fermentation tanks sounds a little unnatural, consider how natural, sustainable, or indeed ethical, it is to continue to produce animal proteins on an industrial scale the way we do currently, says the CEO of Motif Ingredients, which has just raised a jaw-dropping $90m... Read |
NEWS IN BRIEF Instore meal kit sales reached $93m in 2018, says Nielsen US sales of in-store meal kits reached $93m in 2018, according to the latest Nielsen data, with 187 new retail meal kit items introduced during the year as high-profile brands sought to reach consumers that like the concept, but dont want to commit to an online subscription... Read Aldi 2.0? New Amazon stores likely to have heavy private label offer, plus the best of Amazon tech and shopper insights, predict analysts If Amazon is planning to launch a new retail offer with lower prices than Whole Foods, it would lend credence to the idea that well-designed, well-located brick-and-mortar stores have an important role to play in the years ahead, even as e-commerce continues to grow, says Euromonitor... Read | |