With conscious consumerism on the rise and potential employees increasingly evaluating companies based on their values, Mars Inc. isn’t wasting any time implementing the new mission it unveiled in March.
Singapore-based Nutrition Innovation Group says it is in talks with seven out of 10 of the world’s leading food manufacturers interested in using its low-GI cane sugar and is working on a suite of new products that combine sugar with fibers, proteins...
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Do all fermented foods contain probiotics? Do consumers understand what prebiotics are? Are shoppers looking for products that deliver a rapid and discernible effect (to tackle bloating/gas/constipation, or improve regularity) or are they focused on long-term...
Under pressure to beat the competition or secure returns for investors, most startups want to get on store shelf as fast as possible, but first they must checkoff a litany of minimum requirements that can turn into unexpected roadblocks if they don’t...
Retailers investment in home delivery, click-and-collect and other rapid fulfillment of online orders is paying off as global e-commerce sales of food is set to nearly triple through 2023 to reach $321 billion, according to a new report from Packaged...
Kroger has teamed up with private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg to create PearlRock Partners, a new platform that will identify and invest in promising new CPG brands utilizing insights from its consumer data platform 84.51°.
Frustrated that women entrepreneurs receive only about 2% of all venture funding, despite owning 38% of US businesses, Stacy’s Pita Chips is expanding its Rise Project to help female founders grow their businesses with an additional $200,000 in funding...
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines prompted a heated debate over the influence of industry lobby groups and the extent to which environmental factors should impact dietary advice, with some stakeholders insisting that sustainability has nothing to do with nutrition,...
The FDA’s decision to exclude allulose from the total and added sugars declarations on the Nutrition Facts panel has removed a significant barrier to uptake in the industry, says Tate & Lyle, which says the rare sugar with 90% fewer calories than...
When pitching a company or a product to investors, startups should brace to hear ‘no’ – a lot – but they can increase their chances of hearing yes by learning everything they can about the investment community at large and individual investors before...
We’re no longer a nation of pantry stockers. Many Americans don’t know what’s for dinner tonight, never mind next week, and with grocers now competing with everyone from GrubHub to IKEA, is it time for a radical rethink of the traditional supermarket...
At some point, all businesses – big and small – need help, which is easy to forget but important to remember for entrepreneurs, startups and smaller companies if they approach a global company for introductions, funding or assistance opening doors, advises...
In order to beat the competition, entrepreneurs and companies first need to know who the competition is, which requires them to know themselves – both of which aren’t always obvious, warns the head of Israel’s Export and Market Intelligence Unit Naor...
Check out FoodNavigator-USA’s latest gallery of new products hitting US shelves, spanning the latest plant-based launches in the meat and dairy aisle, to a whimsical new cereal called Magic Spoon to Blueberry Cheerios.
Products that make the IRI Pacesetters list of the top 100 CPG launches still tend to be from larger companies (although that’s changing), but the days of ‘blockbuster’ new products are over, says the Chicago-based market researcher.
