Highlights

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Marketing

Super Bowl Sunday: The Ultimate Food & Bev Consumption Event

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.
Calbee Group Products
Plant Operations and Engineering

Meeting Consumers’ Snack Fix Through Innovation

Feb. 7, 2025
Creating craveable snack foods requires investment in technology that drives processing plants, data systems that inform decision-makers and product development that introduces...
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Legacy Bakehouse Acquires Classic Cookie

Feb. 6, 2025
Contract and private-label baker adds retail brand to its portfolio, and looks to apply its expertise to the cookie and brownie baker’s product capabilities.
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Mergers & Acquisitions

PepsiCo Completes Acquisition of Siete Foods

Jan. 17, 2025
Siete brings another snack brand into the fold for PepsiCo.
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R&D

Calbee America Opens R&D Center in Madera, California

Jan. 15, 2025
Facility expected to help the Japanese snack company accelerate development of Asian-flavored products for the U.S. marketplace.
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Marketing

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

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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Fruits and Vegetables

Welch’s Names New Chief Research and Development Officer

Jan. 10, 2025
Company elevates Christine Kwiat to the post, rewarding her pivotal role in helping redefine innovation processes and grow the portfolio over the last four years.
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Fruits and Vegetables

Dole Packaged Foods Shuffles Vice President Appointments in Response to Retirements

Jan. 8, 2025
Mike Secor and Stacy Smoot take on new vice president roles as previous marketing and foodservice VPs head toward retirement.
Brent Hofacker
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Mergers & Acquisitions

CK Snacks Acquires Private Label Tortilla, Corn Chip Processor

Sept. 24, 2024
Illinois-based Axium Foods will join the CK Snacks portfolio.
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Marketing

Kellanova’s RxBar Turns to Augmented Reality, TV Star to Motivate Consumers

Sept. 17, 2024
Certain RxBar products will deliver a three-dimensional holographic AR video of marathon runner and former “Bachelor” Matt James standing on the bar’s packaging and offering motivationa...
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International

Kellanova Enters Agreement to Sell Majority Stake in Egyptian Biscuit Co.

Sept. 16, 2024
HSA Group will purchase Bisco-Misr from Kellanova, with the deal expected to close in first quarter 2025.
People on the Move

Catalina Crunch Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Sept. 12, 2024
Appointment of Sarah Van Houten comes in advance of anticipated growth for the snacks and cereals processor.