TreeHouse Foods is closing manufacturing plants in Azusa, California, and Ripon, Wisconsin. The Azusa facility has approximately 660 employees and produces bars and snack products primarily for retail customers. The full facility is expected to close and production is expected to end in the second quarter of 2017. Products produced at the Azusa facility will […]
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Wrigley Debuts New Products And Retail Insights At Sweets & Snacks Expo
The William Wrigley Jr. Co., a subsidiary of Mars Inc., is introducing a new lineup of products from several of its brands including Orbit, Skittles and Doublemint, as well as sharing retailer insights during the NCA Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago this week. Sharing Original Insights for Retailers At the Sweets & Snacks Expo, Wrigley and […]
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Packaged Facts: Blurring The Line Between Breakfast and Snack
Consumers continue to embrace snacking—not only as a viable daypart option but also as a paradigm through which to view eating in general (smaller, more frequent meals). This has caused and will continue to cause changes in consumers’ relationships with traditional breakfast foods, according to market research publisher Packaged Facts in the brand new report, […]
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Krispy Kreme Signs Distributor To Serve C-Stores Nationally
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has entered a partnership with TSW Foods LLC to bring Krispy Kreme brand packaged goods like snack bags, honey buns and single-serve pies to convenience stores across the U.S. The products will join Krispy Kreme Doughnuts’ other primarily yeast sweet treats already available via direct store delivery in more than 5,000 […]
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Kellogg Brands Add Breakfast, Snack Choices
Kellogg Co. brands like Raisin Bran, Pop-Tarts, Special K and Cheez-It are launching new items this spring. Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg says that “the new products reflect people’s desire for wholesome foods with recognizable ingredients, the need for convenient options and the continued wish for food that is fun and delicious.” The Kellogg’s Raisin Bran […]
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Despite Snacking, Consumers Still Eat Three Main Meals A Day
Snacking and talking about how much U.S. consumers snack is all the rage but, contrary to popular belief, Americans still eat three main meals a day, according to The NPD Group, a leading global information company. It’s fact that U.S. consumers snack a lot—between-meal snacking accounts for about a third of all eating occasions—but they […]
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Meat And Related Products, Snacks to Outperform Other Segments
The U.S. food industry is forecast to grow at a steady rate of 2.9 percent (compound annual growth rate) through 2022, according to the 2016 Food Packaging Trends and Advances report from PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. Based on interviews from 70 food processing and packaging industry professionals in the U.S. and […]
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Mondelez Launching Its First New Snack Brand In More Than A Decade
Mondelez International is rolling out a new snack brand—its first in more than a decade—called GOOD THiNS. The brand “starts with real ingredients (like wheat, potato and rice), combines them with enticing flavors (like garlic, spinach and sweet potato) and bakes each piece thin and crispy without any artificial flavors, colors, cholesterol, partially hydrogenated oils […]