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World Centric Intros Updated Retail Packaging And Branding

Petaluma, California-based World Centric, maker of compostable products, will be introducing its new retail packaging and refreshed brand identity by phasing it in over the next six months. The updated look will begin to roll out onto retail shelves nationwide in early May. The company’s entire retail line will be updated with the new look, […]

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Impossible Foods Hires Creative Director Ahead Of Retail Launch

Impossible Foods, maker of the plant-based Impossible Burger, has hired creative veteran Sasha Markova as the company’s first executive creative director. Markova will lead Impossible Foods’ in-house creative team, which will manage all visual messaging across the brand’s channels. The move comes after Impossible Foods began producing burgers at its first full-scale production plant in […]

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Peapod Expands Number Of Ready-To-Cook Meal Kits Available

Peapod is expanding its meal kit line to include six new recipes. Peapod began offering meal kits in 2014, becoming one of the first retailers to combine the convenience of meal kits and online grocery delivery. The expansion comes as Peapod is seeing a 104 percent increase in new-customer purchases year over year, and the […]

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Meal Kit Service Sun Basket Turns To Sealed Air For Recyclable Packaging

Sealed Air, a packaging solutions company, is providing sustainable box liners to national meal kit delivery service Sun Basket.    “Known for its commitment to using organic produce and sustainable ingredients as well as recyclable packaging, Sun Basket also wanted new insulation materials for its shipping boxes while retaining its commitment to 100 percent recyclable packaging,” says Sealed […]

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2018 Will See High Meat Consumption, But The American Diet Is Shifting

by Rich Waite/ Associate, World Resources Institute While 2017 was a banner year for plant-based eating—with plant-based burgers and other alternative proteins coming to market—2018 began with headlines proclaiming a new year filled with meat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sparked these stories by predicting that Americans will eat a record amount of beef, pork and poultry this year. The meaty headlines—complete with pictures […]

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Animal Meat And Protein Resurging As A Culinary Food Trend In 2018

Throughout most of 2017, it was clear that increased consumer focus on vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets was influencing trends industrywide. But if 2017 was the year of plant-based proteins, market research firm Packaged Facts predicts that 2018 will be the year animal-based protein makes a push to reclaim space on America’s center plate. Packaged […]

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Tyson Foods Invests In ‘Cultured Meat’ Startup Memphis Meats

“Clean meat” or “cultured meat” company Memphis Meats, which focuses on producing real meat directly from animal cells, without the need to raise or process animals, has received an investment from the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods Inc. Tyson Foods joins a number of other investors in Memphis Meats, including DFJ, Atomico, Cargill, Bill […]

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McCormick & Co. Makes Most Sustainable Corporation List

McCormick & Co. Inc. is the 23rd most sustainable corporation, according to the 2018 Corporate Knights Global 100 Sustainability Index released at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. McCormick also was ranked number one in the Food Products Industry category for the second year on the list, which annually is released by Corporate Knights, a Canadian market research company. […]