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    Rich Products Cookie & Donut Craze
    Bakery & Baked Goods

    Rich Products: Cookies, Donuts Lead Fresh Bakery Craze

    Maggie MacHale
    March 11, 2025
    Rich Products hosted a webinar to discuss the state of fresh bakery and the growth in the influence of cookies and donuts.
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    Animal Proteins

    Applegate Meets Regenerative Grasslands Target for Beef Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

    Andy Hanacek
    March 10, 2025
    Every Applegate natural and organic beef hot dog will be produced using 100% verified regeneratively sourced beef moving forward.
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    International

    Meatable Brings Global Food Experts to Netherlands to Discuss the Future of Sustainable Meat

    Andy Hanacek
    March 4, 2025
    Event brought together experts and stakeholders from around the world to learn about Meatable's cultivated meat but also to discuss how the meat industry needs to begin to develop...
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    Marketing

    Wait Till Next Year? No Real Standout Super Bowl Commercials Yet Again

    Andy Hanacek
    Feb. 11, 2025
    With a Super Bowl game that wasn’t particularly close or that intriguing after the opening kickoff, the commercials needed to step up this year; our editors think most of them...
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    Marketing

    Super Bowl Sunday: The Ultimate Food & Bev Consumption Event

    Andy Hanacek
    Feb. 7, 2025
    Taking a look at some of the purchase and consumption data shared by food and beverage watchers and analysts around the biggest football day of the year in the U.S.
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    Marketing

    TruFood, Bar Bakers Unveil Post-Merger Brand Identity: Tandem Foods

    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 13, 2025
    Following Spring 2024 merger, the two companies will work in tandem to grow the unified business under its new brand identity, with a new logo and marketing tools to help.
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    Beverage Products

    Odwalla Juices, Smoothies Return Five Years After Being Discontinued

    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 10, 2025
    Mexican beverage company Grupo Jumex will manufacture the six products and have them distributed in the U.S., five years after Coca-Cola (its previous owner) had shut down the...
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    Marketing

    Price of Thanksgiving Meal Drops for Second Year, But Remains Higher Than Pre-Pandemic

    Andy Hanacek
    Nov. 26, 2024
    American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual survey of Thanksgiving meal item prices shows another year of easing, but the need for future declines to reach pre-Covid levels.
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    Mergers & Acquisitions

    Hershey’s Acquires Social Media-Driven Sour Strips Candy Brand

    Andy Hanacek
    Nov. 8, 2024
    Social media personality who founded the sour candy brand, Maxx Chewning, will stay on and lead marketing, innovation for Sour Strips.
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    Marketing

    Kraft Heinz Taps PepsiCo Marketing Exec Kaplan to Lead Its North American Marketing Efforts

    Andy Hanacek
    July 17, 2024
    Todd Kaplan will bring extensive experience and success with the global beverage giant to more than 50 Kraft Heinz brands in North America.
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    Legal Issues

    Family of Teen Who Died After ‘One Chip Challenge’ Sues Hershey, Walgreens

    Andy Hanacek
    July 12, 2024
    Harris Wolobah, 14, of Worcester, Mass., died in September 2023 shortly after eating the extremely spicy chip.
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    Beverage Products

    Snoop Dogg, Hulk Hogan, NFL’s Kelce Brothers Race to the Alcoholic Beverage Marketplace

    Andy Hanacek
    June 12, 2024
    Snoop and 19 Crimes introduce RTD Cali Cocktails, while Hulkamaniacs will be searching for the Hulkster’s Real American Beer, and Travis and Jason Kelce take ownership of Garage...
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    Marketing

    Bacardi Taps Former Kraft Heinz Exec to Bolster Marketing Leadership Team

    Andy Hanacek
    April 12, 2024
    Irina Rodina will become the spirits company’s senior vice president for marketing strategy and operations after spending two years leading Kraft Heinz’s northern European marketing...