The Hershey Company has agreed to acquire Amplify Snack Brands for about $1.6bn to boost its position in the snacking aisle and expand its portfolio of savory snacking brands. The transaction amount also includes around $600m of net debt ...
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Hormel Foods have introduced four new all natural deli meat snacks which come along with cheddar or pepper jack cheese and a dark-chocolate confection. The addition of on-the-go snacks expands the Hormel Natural Choicebranded product ...
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Wenzel's Farm, a leading producer of small batch, hand crafted and naturally hickory smoked meat snacks announces a complete redesign of its brand. The company, which has been producing quality Wisconsin meat products since 1949 has ...
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Sonoco has launched the ClearGuard packaging, which can be used as a substitute to aluminum foil or metalized films. The ClearGuard portfolio of flexible packaging is designed to offer improved barrier properties for product protection. ...
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American food giant Conagra Brands has agreed to acquire Thanasi Foods, which makes Duke's meat snacks and BIGS seeds. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties. Based in Colorado, Thanasi Foods is a small ...
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McSweeney's Premium Jerky & Meat Snacks has introduced Pep' N Cheddies, the first of its kind "go-portion" pepperoni and cheddar cheese sticks pack. Packaged in six - 25 gram individually portioned easy-peel packs, these portioned snacks ...
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Jack Link’s Protein Snacks has acquired meat snacks unit of Grass Run Farms, which produces grass-fed beef snacks and fresh meat products. The deal also includes trademark and distribution rights for Grass Run Farms beef snacks. ...
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US-based food company General Mills is planning to more than double its organic acreage sourcing for ingredients, to reach its goal of 250,000 acres by 2019. The increase in acreage is to meet the growing demand for natural and organic ...
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General Mills will close its pastry manufacturing facility in Berwick, UK by autumn of 2016. In this regard, the company has completed collective consultation process with employee representatives and union officials in order to arrive at ...
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Recent rapidly growing interest in protein content has been of particular benefit to the meat snacks market. Many products naturally high in protein are increasingly using high-in-protein or source-of-protein claims. According to Innova ...
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Hershey will add new snacking products to its existing product range at the National Confectioners Association’s annual Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. Commenting on the expansion, Hershey North America president Michele Buck ...
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Premium Brands, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded specialty food products, announced its results for the third quarter of 2014. * Revenue for the quarter increased by 15.2% to $330.4 million as compared to $287.0 million for ...
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British-Dutch multinational company Unilever is looking at options to sell its Ragu pasta sauce brand for $2bn. The company has appointed Morgan Stanley to manage the sale process, reported Bloomberg citing sources familiar with the ...
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British-Dutch multinational company Unilever has signed a deal to sell its meat snacks business to US beef jerky group Jack Link’s. The sale includes Bifi and Peperami sausage brands as well as a manufacturing unit in Ansbach, ...
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Oberto Brands, a national leader in the meat snacks category, uveiled updates to its popular Oh Boy! Oberto All Natural Jerky line, marking the largest brand overhaul in the company's 95 year history. Spearheading the rebrand is a ...
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