When eating a favorite snack or bakery product, few people stop and consider all of the ingredients that give these products the taste and mouthfeel they enjoy. Consumers don’t care if the layer cake on their plate is moist because it’s made with a special flour formulation or that a gum blend makes the frosting smooth.
Company: Fullbar, LLC, Greenwood Village, Colo. Website: www.fullbar.com Introduced: January Distribution: National Suggested Retail: $5.99 to $11.99 for a 9.54-oz. box
Expanded several times, Turano Baking Co.’s Berwyn, Ill., headquarters production plant features three fully-automated makeup lines and three semi-automated lines that can produce some 200 stock-keeping units overall and generate as many as 150 types of fresh products each day. Starting out as a 2,000-sq.-ft. storefront in the early 1960s, the facility now is a 185,000-sq.-ft. dynamo of action.
Even though the temperatures outside may be striking a new high, today’s jerky and meat snack manufacturers are heating things up on their own with hot flavorings and spicy offerings.
Thanks to a plethora of new product innovations, fun packaging concepts and a host of exotic flavoring options, the bar segment maintains a prime position in the major leagues.
Whether it’s a picnic, a ballgame, a county fair or just lounging in the sun, the state of the snack industry proves that consumers are in for one wild, fun-filled, tasty ride.
Potato chips have been around for ages and are a simple but fantastic idea in origin. Still, one of the industry’s most beloved snack foods, they run a Tilt-a-Whirl of flavors with shelf appeal, shapes and varieties. But one thing’s certain: They’re as classic as a state fair.
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