News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Nutrition and health bars are stealing market share from the category leading snack and cereal bars in part because they tie into the health and wellness trend dominating many consumers’ purchasing decisions in a way snack and cereal bars don’t,...
Peeled Snacks: If you don’t take time to understand retail buyers, why should they take time to understand you?
Which retail channel is right for your brand? Natural? Club? Convenience? And once you’ve jumped through all the buyers’ hoops, will you still be able to make any money? It all depends on whether you’ve done your homework, one snacking sales expert told...
Relocation brings HQ closer to manufacturing site
Avure Technologies has opened a headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky (outside Cincinnati, Ohio).
For each degree Celcius increase in temperature, the world will lose 6% of its wheat crop and industry must fight back with heat-tolerant cultivars, says a professor from the University of Florida.
PCI Films Consulting (PCI) claims too many companies are investing in BOPP film in an already over-supplied European market, as it releases a report analysing 15 flexible packaging markets.
US sales of ready to eat popcorn grew 25% to an estimated $750m in 2014
“Tired brands and off-trend categories should take inspiration from the astonishing turnaround in the fortunes of popcorn,” according to a new report from Rabobank International, which reveals that US sales of the bagged, pre-popped, ready-to-eat (RTE)...