Food Industry News, Insights, and Education for the CPG Community

A pair of major plant-based ingredient manufacturers are recalibrating their respective growth strategies this week, but not in the same direction. First, declines in plant-based product sales has led Canadian manufacturer Maple Leaf Foods to close two of its U.S. plant protein production facilities, consolidating all of its production into a single site in Indianapolis, Ind.

After six years building around distinctive flavor combinations in sparkling beverages, Moshi founder Alton But is ready to see where else that playbook can take the brand.

This week, the podcast takes the temperature of the shot category, celebrity chefs impact on meal kits and C4’s beer-flavored energy drink.

General Mills is seeing early signs that its efforts to rebuild consumer demand are gaining traction as the food giant shifts its focus from price investments to product innovation, renovation and marketing in fiscal 2027.

Five years in, Voyage Foods has repositioned as an environmentally sustainable ingredient supplier as it scales its new Ohio manufacturing hub.

Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen is closing its longtime Santa Rosa, Calif., manufacturing facility as it restructures its production network.

Allergen-friendly cookie maker Heavenly Hunks is moving beyond the category for the first time and extending deeper into the inclusive eating space through a new sub-brand, Dupe Loops.

Across a four-SKU range that includes Roasted Garlic Miso, Sriracha Seaweed, Yakiniku BBQ, and Spicy Yuzu Kosho flavors, Moshi’s kettle-cooked potato chips deliver impressive flavor development and an especially satisfying crunch.

Impossible Foods has brought its plant-based protein platform into U.K. retail stores for the first time.

Online grocery competitors Instacart and Gopuff are joining forces, as the companies announced today that Gopuff will join the Instacart Marketplace and utilize the Instacart Carrots Ads platform to power advertising on its own app in the U.S.

Little Spoon is moving beyond food with the launch of its first daily multivitamin, the latest category expansion for the baby and kids nutrition company as it builds out an “end-to-end feeding platform.

Clean-label food brand Eat Happy Kitchen is going deeper into retail, expanding its flagship pasta sauce line in California and bringing its high protein Cheese Bites snacks to brick-and-mortar accounts for the first time with a rollout into HomeGoods stores nationwide.

Non-UPF Verified is bringing consumers into the ultraprocessed food (UPF) conversation with the release of a new app that features a barcode scanner to check a product’s verification status – and to request that an item become verified if it isn’t already.

Protein snack maker Flings is expanding into bite-sized chocolate indulgences, as it sees margins shrink for its toaster pastry line.