A law (Act 501) coming into force in Arkansas on July 24 puts plant-based brands between a rock and a hard place by restricting the use of 'meaty' terms to products derived from slaughtered animals, alleges a new lawsuit filed by Turtle Island...
Kroger’s consumer data platform 84.51° has launched Stratum: a tool to help CPG partners track online and in-store sales, data inventory, out of stocks, assortment, promotions, customer segmentation and behavioral insights.
The bar category is awash with increasingly sophisticated functional offerings engineered to deliver a fixed amount of protein, net carbs, or the latest on-trend ingredient, says the CEO of Bobo’s, which makes oat bars he readily admits “anyone could...
Starting a business is one thing, but making it profitable is another, and one which often requires some trial and error, according to Monica Klausner, the co-founder of the plant-based meal delivery service Veestro.
Facing declining soda sales in the US, PepsiCo appears to have torn a page from competitor’s Coca-Cola’s playbook with the $1.7 billion acquisition of South African-based Pioneer Food Group announced July 19.
Consumers visit at least four different retail banners to grocery shop in a typical month, an increase from last year, according to the Food Marketing Institute's US Grocery Shopper Trends report.
Venture capital funding flooding the food and beverage industries in recent years has helped grease the wheels for many startups, but according to one investor a significant funding gap between pre-seed and subsequent early growth-stage rounds is holding...
Beleaguered meal kit company Blue Apron’s stock price surged 36% overnight after announcing July 16 that upcoming menus would feature the popular plant-based burger from Beyond Meat, which also saw a 3.6% bump in its stock in the same period.
US retail sales of organic food continue to increase (reaching nearly $50bn in sales last year) but at a slower pace than years past, according to a Rabobank report.
