Todd Southerland, senior vice president and food & agribusiness industry manager at SunTrust Bank looks at strategies smaller food companies are using to capture more of the market.
It’s rare for a food product to check so many boxes in the minds of consumers that it becomes, essentially, universally beloved. But such is the case for snack and nutritional bars.
Is it too late to jump on the snack- and protein-bar bandwagon? Maybe not. Though to say the snack- and energy-bar market is overwhelmingly crowded doesn’t even begin to describe the current climate of the landscape.
The Honey Fruit Bar uses a combination of raisin paste, honey, rolled oats and cookie flour to deliver a great tasting meal replacer with a health halo.
New PowerBar Plant Protein Bars are the first plant-based snack bar released by the brand as part of its Clean Start, which is an ongoing effort to evolve the product portfolio with cleaner ingredient labels and great tasting products.
In order to live up to manufacturers’ growing demands for increased productivity, flexibility and excellent quality, Bosch will be unveiling an advanced version of its bar production system at interpack 2017.