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Brain food startup Memore: ‘The cognitive health market is around $7b and growing 8% annually’ Cognitive decline over time may be inevitable, but according to the husband and wife team behind the recently launched whole food functional beverage blend Memore feeding the mind the right nutrition early and often not only could delay onset and slow decline, but could increase cognitive ability. “It’s inevitable that everyone will experience some degree of cogniti...

Clif Bar & Company is moving forward with its “next stage of purpose-driven growth and expansion” with today’s launch of a fully integrated marketing campaign that reaches beyond the company’s typical consumer base of ultra-athletes to appeal to active everyday people.

Copper Cow Coffee closes $8.5m Series A funding round targeting ‘new generation of coffee drinkers’ Copper Cow Coffee, a sustainably-focused Vietnamese coffee company known for its single-serve pour-over format and natural creamers, closed its Series A financing round of $8.5m, which it plans to put towards rolling out new products beyond pour-over and to make the company’s supply chain as sustainable as possible, said founder and CEO Debbie Wei Mullin. The rou...

Use of botanical ingredients in the beverage category has taken off, with floral-infused sparkling waters, to bottled water with ashwagandha, and yerba mate energy drinks, while the market for botanicals in snacks and packaged food represents a smaller, but growing portion, of the category, says Jordan Buckner, founder of TeaSquares and his newest venture, Foodbevy.com.

Mondelēz emerges from pandemic stronger than ever, says CEO Mondelēz International is continuing to see healthy demand for its core snacking brands, proving that industry-wide sales spikes for packaged, shelf-stable products were more than just a COVID-inspired blip, said chairman and CEO Dirk Van De Put. "We had a strong start to the year despite lapping our highest growth quarter in 2020 and Q1 reconfirmed that we are emerging from COVID even stronger,"​ said�...

PepsiCo Q1 sales clear last year’s pandemic-inspired surge with innovations in snacks, energy drinks PepsiCo sales during the first three months of the year sailed passed the high bar set last year when the pandemic inspired pantry loading, despite challenges during the quarter, including temporary business disruptions due to the severe winter storms that hit Texas and the South. The company also established a strong foundation for future growth with “consumer c...

With this week’s appointment of industry veteran Paul Nardone as the new CEO of HIPPEAS, the organic chickpea snack brand is building an all-star executive team with a strong track record of high-profile exits to help it leverage pandemic-inspired shifts in shopping to get closer to consumers and meet their demand for plant-based, better-for-you snacks.

While a downturn in sales for snack bars in the past year suggest consumer demand has softened, snacking behavior has hit a fever pitch and innovation in this set is hotter than ever as brands evolve to meet shifting consumer demands.

This year promises to be a “blockbuster year” for snacking innovation after 2020 saw drastically fewer new products hit stores than previous years, but of those that did launch the best sellers catered to Americans’ pandemic-influenced demands – portending what likely will do well in the coming year, according to the Chicago-based consumer research firm IRI Worldwide.