The top companies in the snack and bakery industry today include everything from massive international public corporations to niche-driven, highly successful, family-owned businesses.
No segment of the U.S. food industry is as productive and lively as snack and bakery today. U.S. food culture increasingly grows “snackified” as our idea of what constitutes a snack sees ongoing redefinition and the number of daily eating occasions grows from three to five or six.
Snack and bakery products are also on the cutting-edge of prevailing industry trends. Nowhere have “better-for-you” ideals come into play like in snack products and baked goods, as companies developing bars, breads, buns and rolls, tortillas, puffed snacks, tortilla chips, and other products invest in new ingredients and processing technologies to bring notable levels of nutritional improvements—as well as shifts toward clean-label—to a U.S. consumer base hungry for change.