Post Holdings will acquire assets from Hearthside Food Solutions comprising the Golden Temple, Peace Cereal, Sweet Home Farm and Willamette Valley Granola Co. brands, as well as its private-label granola business.

DeMet’s Candy Co.’s TrueNorth nut cluster brand joins New Jersey-based B&G Foods Inc.’s snack line.

Utz Quality Foods has been making potato chips for years and expanded into other snack foods such as pretzels, and its now-famous cheese balls. The Hanover, Pa., company shares how it makes its fantastic orange, bite-size snacks.

Herr Foods acquires a majority share in New Jersey snack food manufacturer Silk City.

PepsiCo Inc., the world’s largest snack-food maker, reports profits that topped analysts’ estimates, helped by global snack sales.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of National Pretzel Day and encourage Americans to taste pretzels, Snyder’s of Hanover is hosting a series of events on April 26 in five U.S. cities.

BIGS Sunflower Seeds and baseball author and collector Zack Hample are partnering to raise money for Pitch In For Baseball, a charity that collects and redistributes new and gently used youth baseball and softball equipment.

John Rudolph, founder of Rudolph Foods, died on April 16 in Lima, Ohio.

Marketers are prompting something nicknamed "hand-to-mouth" snacking with packaging that encourages such behavior. Such packaging includes resealable bags that eliminate the chore of unwrapping products inside, single-serve trays, cups, bottles and more.

Frito-Lay’s Doritos brand partners with Taco Bell to bring two Doritos Locos Tacos (DLT) Tortilla Chips varieties to grocers’ snack aisles for a limited time.