Smart Baking Company, which focuses on high-fiber, low-calorie breads and other refrigerated or frozen baked goods, will nearly double its production facilities by 2020.
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).
A Wisconsin cheese maker refreshed its 90s-era dried cheese snack by removing extra ingredients and changing the shape. Now it's a top search result for ‘cheese snack’ on Amazon.
The organic chickpea snack brand will donate up to $50k to the Whole Kids Foundation, which promotes healthy living through a variety of school-related initiatives.
Arcadia Biosciences has signed an agreement with Arista Cereal Technologies and Bay State Milling Company to globally commercialize a high fiber resistant starch wheat, resolving an earlier intellectual property (IP) wrangle between itself and Arista.
The segment – currently valued around $9m – will reach $24m by 2025 as consumers expand further into health-conscious, better-for-you choices, according to Research and Markets.
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are the latest countries to adopt the International Palm Oil Free Certification Trademark (POFCAP), bringing the number of countries using the label to 20.
The weather may not be autumnal as yet – or piquing into spring in the southern hemisphere – but that has not stopped bakery and snack producers from announcing their limited-edition seasonal releases.
