Selling food & beverage brands online has some obvious advantages: you can get to market more quickly, get rapid feedback, and find out who your customers are. But it’s not all plain-sailing. Here are some takeaways from day one of the Digital Food & Beverage Conference* in Chicago.
Sensient Technologies acquires Mazza Innovation addressing growing demand for clean-label ingredients
Suppliers
Kraft Heinz Campbell merger ‘could make sense’ if deal is snack-focused, but timing may not be right, says analyst
Manufacturers
Arla introduces skyr cream cheese line: 'We’re trying to get in early on that adoption curve...'
Manufacturers
GoGo SqueeZ targets tweens with new BlastZ fruit pouches
Manufacturers
Soup-to-Nuts Podcast: From the blue to elevate butter, 5 trends to watch from the Fancy Food Show
Bakery
Clean meat in focus at FDA meeting: ‘We are not a scooter rental company… we can’t just throw our food on the market and assume people will trust us…’
Prepared Foods
New Sustainable Food Policy Alliance aims to improve nutrition labeling, environmental impact of food production
Bakery
Dang Foods taps into keto-friendly trend with the FATBAR: ‘Fat is back. Embrace it’
Snacks
Spindrift gets sprinkle of stardust in first nationwide campaign, on road to be ‘beverage solution for everybody’
Nutrition Facts
Tempo uses ‘micro-dosing’ to deliver more benefits with less caffeine
Sugar reduction
Solvay launches at IFT a less expensive natural vanillin specially formulated for the US
IFT Show
Primal Kitchen on track to double sales in 2018 as shoppers spurn refined carbs, embrace healthy fats
Sugar reduction
