Confectioner Perfetti Van Melle has collaborated with Belgium food group Vandemoortele to create a range of donuts under the lollipop brand Chupa Chups for the European market.
Consumers can expect see a rise in social media influencers on Instagram engaging with emerging snack and beverage brands, thanks to Cambridge Companies SPG’s latest investment in Indi.
Chinese bakery snack manufacturers are betting on e-commerce to boost their sales over the Lunar New Year, reports domestic confectionery trade body China Candy.
Nestlé has taken its second step to secure its presence in the healthy snacks category by acquiring a majority stake in Ecuadorian organic food company Terrafertil for an undisclosed amount.
Plant-based protein snack maker No Cow's founder Daniel Katz said General Mills has been providing resources to grow his company, which has grown double-digit monthly since receive the cash boost last year.
Mondelēz had no non-GMO products before it acquired Enjoy Life Foods in 2015, but now it is unusual not to see the non-GMO verification on some of its power brands such as Triscuit.
Mondelēz has launched a new variant to its Mikado biscuit range - coated in 70% dark chocolate and sprinkled with salt - in the UK, following consumer demand.
Kellogg’s venture capital fund eighteen94 has made its first investment in the in-car commerce company Cargo, but the agreement does not guarantee that Kellogg snacks like Pringles will be available in Uber.
Donuts were once ‘uncool’ but they are now one of the leading products in the independent, trendy gourmet, handmade sector, apparent with the opening of new concepts stores on both sides of the Atlantic.
BakeryandSnacks and ConfectioneryNews will be hosting a panel discussion at ProSweets in Cologne, Germany, to delve into the plant-based trend; discussing its effects, the pros and the challenges it is having on the snacks and confectionery sectors.
Mondelēz has teamed up with Post Consumer Brands, Post Holdings’ cereal division, to launch several cereal products using flavors of its long-established cookie and cracker brands, including Honey Maid, Nutter Butter and Chips Ahoy.
Devon-based Burts Chips has acquired popcorn maker Savoury & Sweet in a $10m deal in a move to become a big contender in the UK premium snacking market.
GEA plans to extend its portfolio following its acquisition of Pavan Group in Italy, which supplies extrusion and milling technology for processing pasta, snacks and breakfast cereals.
Duravant has acquired Ohlson Packaging, a weighing, counting and filling machine manufacturer, whose clients include Frito-Lay, Hershey’s, Kraft Foods, Tyson Foods and Maple Leaf Foods.
Campbell Soup could take share from Kellogg in the US convenience channel after acquiring Snyder’s-Lance, as the cereal giant is abandoning the direct store delivery (DSD) model for its entire snacks division, said Euromonitor analyst Jared Koerten.
General Mills’ CEO Jeffrey Harmening recently said during the company’s Q2 2018 earnings conference that he does ‘not feel pressure to do M&A’ following other CPG players’ recent moves.
Hershey’s acquisition of Amplify Snacks has made the chocolate company the second largest popcorn producer in the US market, ‘second to Frito-Lay,’ who owns Smartfood, said Euromonitor analyst Jared Koerten.
A South African Competition Tribunal has approved two mergers in seed and wheat milling in which holding company K2014202010 intends to purchase Progress Milling and Noordfed.
A former senior VP of Global Snacks at Kraft Foods has launched the startup Farm & Oven in Boulder, Colorado, hoping to sell his vegetables- and probiotics-added snacks on Amazon by mid-December.
The M&M’s maker Mars will take a minority stake in KIND Snacks, a deal that aims to bring KIND's nutrition bars and granola products onto the global stage.
Former KIND Snacks’ investment firm, VMG Partners, was asked during the recent Food Vision USA in Chicago if big food companies like Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo should acquire emerging products or create their own brands to scale up innovation. Its response:...
Kellogg will open its permanent cereal café in New York City’s Union Square neighborhood on December 14, 2017, after experiencing its first year of ‘success’ in Times Square.
BakeryandSnacks caught up with the president and COO of Chobani, Tim Brown, during Food Vision USA in Chicago recently, and learned that the yogurt company is updating its packaging to look more like a snack brand in the future.
Post Holdings has recorded net sales of $1.45bn for Q4 2017, a 14.9% increase compared to last year, driven partly by the improved volume sales of Weetabix products.
TricorBraun packaging firm has acquired Taipak, a flexible packaging provider based in Canada – its first foray into flexible packaging in its 100-year history.
PepsiCo has launched a range of snacks for the winter holiday season, including re-introduced seasonal items such as Lay’s Wavy potato chips dipped in chocolate.
Kellogg’s venture capital fund, eighteen94 Capital, is planning to invest in various food categories around sustainability and functional ingredients next year.
Organic brand Foodstirs is on a mission to reenergize the baking mix category and has expanded its retail presence from 400 to 7,500 stores in the past year.
Panera Bread has announced founder Ron Shaich is stepping down as CEO and the company is acquiring sandwich rival Au Bon Pain, which Shaich helped build in the 1990s.
NightFood Holdings is currently researching cannabidiol’s (CBD) medicinal benefits for sleep, hoping to develop or acquire a line of infused snacks in 2018.
McVitie’s, Filippo Berio, Chaucer Foods and the Finsbury Food Group are just a few of the companies working with brand extension agency Beanstalk to extend brands into other categories and markets.
According to Christine Cool, area licensing manager of confectionery manufacturer Perfetti van Melle, brand licensing opens a whole new universe of possibilities, something it has done for the company’s Chupa Chups brand.
WaffleWaffle’s CEO and co-founder, Samuel Rockwell, said customizing snack products to fit in a certain retail channel is key to competing with larger CPG firms such as General Mills and Kellogg.
Brands should look to license quirky characters like Charlotte Reed’s Happy Hippy to help children move to better-for-you snacks, writes BakeryandSnacks’ editor.
Brand licensing, worth $262bn in annual retail sales for licensors, allows manufacturers to charge a premium and reach new consumers, says Steven Ekstract, group publisher of Licence Global.
Campbell Soup’s global biscuits and snacks division has brought Tim Tam single-serve packs to the US and has set about educating consumers on the Tim Tam Slam.
Paqui Chips said the Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods can help its brand and others in the Amplify Snack Brands' portfolio enter as many stores as possible.
Lantmännen Unibake is geared to capitalize on the premiumization trend going on in fast food service with operators customizing offerings to encourage consumers to spend a little more on nice looking products.
